The herald., 1897-09-05
1HE AOdAVE DESERT TOWNS AND MINING RESOURCES

the uncertainty OF raising and drying
fruit, which may not bear, or spoil, or
fail to find market. No weevils, army
worms nor rust attack gold ore or the
finished product. At Mercer in Utah.
the cost of cyaniding ore is but so cents
a ton. In the Black hills and in the
Treadwell mines ores are worked at
less than one dollar and a half ton
In South Africa it costs about $3.50 a
ton to mill the ores. On the White Peak
group ores can be mined and crushed
and pulverized and cyanided at an ex-
pense of less than 81 per ton.
The reason that this mountain of ore
Tor Soleoad peak is permeated in al
most every direction with ore lodes or
veins-has laid so long unnoticed Is that
the ore is generally base-that is, not
free gold-and hence usually shows
nothing to the test of horning or pan
ming 1t is camp founded by tender
feet, who carried. to the assayer mineral
that the professional miner would no.
accept as being of any value, because
on horning it did not show free gold.
The White Peak Group Mining COM
pany Is an incorpora ton duly organized
under the laws of the state of
California, where it proposes to Go busi-
ness. No state has greater protection to
the rights Of the stockholders nor more
rigorous exactions of fairness from d.
rectors, enforced by personal liza bility of
directors. nor yet more safeguards to
creditors of corporal ton than has CAL
| ifornia. The United States land depart
ment has very properly held that cor
poration seeking patents to mining land
must comply with the corporation laws
OF the state where the property sought
| to be patented is located
The White Peak Group Mining COM
pany is incorporated fer 1000, 900 shares
| Of II each, 100000 of which were paid out
for the fifteen mining properties and
100000 is in the treasury offered for sale
for development work
Directors are prohibited from incurring
any debt in excess of the cash and the
cash value of stock in the treasury, and
no assessment can ever be levied with
out the consent of the holders of two
thirds Of the capital stock, in which case
each share Of stock is equally assessed
all being paid up there is no contract
liza bility.
| No stock is offered for sale except
the treasury stock, the proceeds, Of which
are applied solely to work on the mines,
the officers of the company and the direc-
tors serving the first year without COM
pensation.
The first $4,000 of the stock of the COM
pany full paid up will be sold at cent
share and the second $4,000 at 1k
cents share, the price rising " cent
with each 10000 shares sold, until $4,000
shares are thus disposed of.
| The directors Of the company are M. L.
| Wicks, ]. w. Wenzel, Charles McComas,
! r. H. Bradley and j. j. Smiley, either of
whom will furnish further information
| on the matters of the company. The
company has an abstract of title to all
its mines. Office, room 1, California bank
building, Los Angeles.
OTHER PROMINENT CLAIMS
Besides the claims of the White Peak
Group Mining company there are large
number of we'll developed mines and
prominent claims in this district which
deserve mention in detail, but it is i'm
possible to give them the space.
The Bowers group of about fifteen
claims situated about four miles south
by west of Mojave, are the oldest and
probably the best developed, as Mr..
Bowers is the pioneer Of the district H
| has shipped many carloads of ore to the
Selby company, San Francisco, each
year for several years with satisfactory
returns, Notwithstanding the heavy ex-
pense of shipping and smelling.
J The entire Double Standard group con-
sists of the Bertha, Nettie, Little 10,
Mountain Key, North Star. Doubl5