The record-union., 1897-10-25

| Congress. He had served a term in the
State Legislature. Is that where he got
the impression that a member of Con-
! greSS could legitimately advocate a
claim against the Government and that
a rake off, thus gained would be an
honest penny, we'll earned?
There is one ray of promise about the
| whole shameful business, and that lies
in the fact that Barlow has killed him
self politically if he ever had any life.
! The people of the Sixth Congressional
| District will have to bear the ignominy
of having elected a man who is too OBJ
tuse, TO state the case mildly, to know
the difference between right and wrong;
| but having learned the situation they
are not likely to repeat the error. Mr..
Barlow will have to seek his business
opportunities" elsewhere than in Con-
greSS.
GOLD IN SOLANO COUNTY.
Cordelia X-Ray: Messrs. Mangold and
Ashley, the miners who are working a
claim on the Joseph Oberti ranch, and
who purchased sixteen acres of that
ranch a short time ago, are, to all out
ward appearances, meeting with better
success than hitherto deemed possible.
Although the gentlemen themselves
will not talk on the subject or give any
information whatever about their mine,
we have been enabled to gather few
facts on the outside, and these we here
with present to the public with the as
surance that we will keep them enlight-
ened on the subject as fast as any de-
velopmentS are made.
Representatives from the Selby
Smelling Works and California Anal
gamator Company were at the mines
a short time since and procured sam
pies of the rock for the purpose of as
saying it. Later on they reported that
the samples, which were selected pro
miscuously from various parts of the
hill, assayed from 81 30 to $50 per
ton, and it is also stated that they said
the whole hill would average between
81 so and So per ton, taking dirt and
all. AS 50 80 per ton would pay a fair
profit for working it, the value of the
hill can only be surmised.
The rock containing the gold is of
soft, chalky character and breaks
readily, so that it will be easily work
ed. 1t resembles the rock found in
most of the hills about here, so if one
place bears gold, why not another?
Very likely more claims will be field
ere long.
If, after a. little more experimenting,
the present indications still obtain,
large stamp mill will be erected at the
mine by a San Francisco company.
The property is situated on the hill
west of the Green Valley Winery and
road runs near it SO that if it does
amount to anything, the ore will be
easily shipped to the smelter, and ma
chinery and supplies can readily be
conveyed to the mine.
The gentlemen have spent the greater
part of the last six months in pros
pecting and sinking shafts on the prop
erty they now occupy, and as they are
both proficient miners, they undoubt-
edly knew what they were about when
they settled on the Oberti ranch. They
appear to have the utmost confidence
in the value of their claim.
A paying gold mine in Green Valley
would mean a boom for COrdelia and
we sincerely hope that Messrs. Man
gold and Ashley have struck a big bo-
mana and will make a grand success of
it. However, we do not want Trim
ity fake perpetrated here.
AN UNPLEASANT CONTRAST.
Stockton Mail: The offer of mar
let for sugar beets was made about the
same time to Sacramento and Stockton.
The offer made to Sacramento was con-
tingent upon 10000 acres being pledged
to the culture of sugar beets for five