Mesa free press., 1897-09-24
pectors, and curse the newspapers. The
gold is here, and hard work will secure

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The town of Coffee Greek has been
staked out on part of the two 80-acre
tracts owned by the Graves Bros. at the
junction of Coffee Creek and Trinity
River. The brothers have refused an
offer of $4,000 for the Blue Jay claim,
but, it is reported, have sold three other
claims to San Francisco parties for $27,-
600.
W. B. Broadwell returned from Gar
lock the first of the week, and showed
us a nugget taken out of Goler which
was worth nearly $50. Another one
was brought in worth about $3.50. He
reports the thermometer way up, and
the water very poor. There are many
cases OF typhoid fever in and around
that cinity.-Lancaste Gazette.
The Gold Cliff mine, east of the Com
monwealth, does not show so much
high grade ore, but larger body, aver
aging about $40 per ton. 1t began with
81 ore and increased as they went down.
The main shaft is 215 feet deep, the
ledge s feet wide. The walls are por-
phyry and quartzite. Los Angeles peo-
pie are largely interested in this mine,
but Geo. H. Fits OF Tom bstone is pres
ident.
George Runyan, just in from Gratis
burg, " reports about seventy-fve placer
miners at work among the classic hills
north of Saugus, which afford such de-
llghtful retreats for kangaroo rats. A
few OF these miners, says Runyan, are
making good money, but the most of
them are just eking out bare exist
ence. These diggings are on the New
hall estate, where every miner pays a
royalty of IS per week to ode boss oh de
ranch" for the poor privilege of taking
chances in this dubious camp.
Riverside county is fast coming to the
front as gold producing county. The
Lost Horse mine is now considered to
be worth million dollars to it's owner.
There is some talk, so mining men of
Los Angeles report, of putting up a
smleter at the Needles, or between there
and Barstow, and there is also rumor
that the Santa Fe is talking of erecting
plant here or somewhere on its line
adjacent to the mining sections. Muir
ply, of Monahan & Murphy, Needles,
is behind the project for plant in that
section.
III. McAtee OF Spokane has complet-
ed arrangements for the largest Alaskan
mining scheme yet placed on foot. He
has chartered a schooner and will leave
next spring for Copper River with an
armed force of 100 men to thoroughly
explore that section, and ascertain the
truth of the report of the wonderful
richness of the copper claims there.
The natives are said to be hostile. and
for that reason the men accom- panying
him will be we'll armed. The scheme is
a cooperative one, each member of the
party putting up $3.50 in cash.
The Riverside Press of August 81 said 1:
E. M. Sheffield will start his new paint
mill tomorrow. The mill is equipped
to grind up forty tons of pigment day,
and is fitted up with 2O-horse power
engine and complete equipment of ma
chinery. The report from three car
loads of crude paint sent to Chicago was
most encouraging. 1t had been ground
up and found to be frst-class. Mr..
Sheffield has found market for the en-
tire output of his paint mine, and may
have bonanza equal to Klondyke.
Trinity county's gold output last year
was 81, 500, 900, says the Trinity Journal.
"The water power is here, the timber
is here, the golden-grained soil is here.
There is no necessity for any
gold seeker to freeze in the Klondyke
or burn in South African deserts. There
is large area of unprospected and un-
located ground here, and there is no
region where better opportunities are
offered with less hardships than this
country to the skilled prospector and
the intelligent capitalist. There
is no more inviting field to-day.
A miner just in from the Copper
Queen at Bisbee, Cochise county, Ari-
zona, reports that this wonderful prop
erty employs about 900 hands, who are
worked day and night, in three shifts
of eight hours each, turning out 900
tons of ore every day. The laborers in
this mine are paid So. so per day. The
Copper Queen is one of the most valu-
able properties in the world, SIS, 600, 900
having been refused for it. The lowest
depth in the mine is 500 feet, and it is
well provided with air shafts and all
modern machinery, while the company
owns it's own smelter.
"Perhaps no State in the Union af-
fords the student more delightful field
for mineralogizing than does Southern
California" writes r. Harris of San Ja-
cinto, an enthusiastic mineralogist.
"From the pebble lined beach to the
apex of the Sierra Madre, from the
apex of the Sierra Madre to the center
of the sunken desert, his pick may be
kept busy unearthing interesting speci-
mems. In San Diego county, close to
Pala, there is rubellite mine. With
in four miles of it can be found twenty
six different minerals. How that bo-
nanza would tickle the professor OF min
eralogy in an eastern college !"
A gold brick weighing four pounds and
valued at $500 was recently produced
from ore taken from the 100-foot level
of the Cosmopolitan mine at Silver
City, New.
Probably every mining camp in the
country has it's discouragers. They
are men who look at the gloomy side of
everything and take great delight in
speaking discouragingly of the mines
and prospects of a camp to all strangers
who may visit it, and especially to pros
nectiva investors One ahla- a-hodied dis