The herald., 1897-04-05
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pecIal corresnondence to The Herald

Special Correspondence to The Herald.
SAN BERNlARDINO. April 2, 1897
Virginia Dale district is coming into pub
lie notice and growing in Importance at
rapid rate Dale City. located at the
point formerly known as Lyons Well,
is the business center Of this, district,
and already possesses two stores, a
blacksmith shop, postof1ce, an assayer.
and several other lines of business will
be represented shortly. In a scope Of
country twelbe by sixteen miles are per-
haps 600 or 800 men. The scarcity of wa
ter and the lack II milling facilities have
been two causes that have operated
against the speedy development of the
camp. The San Francisco company that
has lately acquired the old Virginia Dale
mine Will soon have a forty-ton custom
plant in operation, however, and the
prospector can thereafter do business on
more satisfactory basis. This COM
pany will also do something toward de-
veloping better supply of water.
The mines of the Trojan district
(Providence) in northeast San Bernar-
dino county, which have produced mil
lions of rich ore in their day, are once
more attracting the attention and in
vestment of mining men. The late pur-
chasers of the Bonanza King property
have 1000 tons of high grade ore on the
dump and $4,000 or 80, 900 tons Of high
grade tailings. A good force will be put
to work getting out ore for milling. The
heavy rains have washed off the debris
and exposed large body of high grade
ore fifty feet back in the hanging wall.
There are also 1000 tons of high grade ore
on the dump at the Mozart mines. Witt
and partner have out 200 tons of $50 ore
and are making regular shipments to
Kingman. Two shafts are being sunk
on the Leslie property. The ledge is
three feet. Five men are pushing devel-
opment work in the Stillson property.
Jesse r. Grant and Mayor Carlson of
San Diego and Colonel c. ID. Lane, the
millionaire owner of the famous Utica
and La Fortuna mines, returned this
week from the King of Arizona mining
district, says the San Diego Union.
They all say that the Gleason and Ed
wards mine Is one of the richest large
bodies of ore ever discovered. The vein
is over twenty feet in width and averages
$75 to the ton. Charles Edwards, one of
the owners, claims there are over $2000,-
900 worth of ore in sight. He has been
prospecting for over twenty-four years
and discovered 1t a month ago. His part
ner. Gleason is an engineer here.
Numerous other locations are being
made by those rushing into the district.
Mayor Carlson went to report on the
extensiveness of the discoveries to par
ties contemplating building the short
line railroad between San Diego and
Yuma. He says that the great mining
discoveries being made in the vicinity
of Yuma make the building of the San
Diego and Yuma railroad matter which
will soon occur.
Superintendent Muir of this division of
the Southern Pacific railroad accompa-
MED by General Agent Duncan and Sur
veyor Norton has visited the mines.
The Mohave County Miner says: 1.-THE
Temple Bar mining company is shipping
thirty carloads of lumber to its mines
or the Colorado river ninety miles north
of Kingman. 1t is the intention of the
company to put in steam boilers of 700
horse power to work the big pumps at
| the mines. An immense boom will be
built in the river to catch the driftwood.
| This boom will be massive structure,
| capable of resisting the sudden rises to
which the Colorado river is addicted.
| The company is the owner of several
hundreds of acres of the richest placer
ground on the coast and with the big
plant will be able to work 1t on mag
nificent scale ]. X. Carpenter is super
intending the construction of the
works"