Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-10-15
TIMES AND MINING.

A rich strike has just been reported
from the Montezuma quartz mine at the
Alamo in Lower California.
The travel to Randsburg through Mo-
jave is larger than ever and the stage ia
taxed to it's full capacity. The recent
rich strikes will make things lively this
winter.
The Spokane Chronicle says taht ow-
ing to the discrimination made by the
Alaskan mining laws against non-resi-
dent miners, five companies now out
prospecting will be recalled.
Favorable reports have come from
Randsburg in regard to recent develop
ments in the mines of that camp.
Mining men of experience who have
visited Randsburg during the last few
months are inclined to take favorable
view as to permanency of the camp.
The question of'whether the mines will
hold out with depth is one regarding
which we shall soon know more, than
we do at present. ~
Judge Virden of the Mono county Su-
perior Court has decided that the Pow
ers Mining Law passed by the last Cali
fornia legislature is in conflict with
the United States mining laws and
therefore null and void. The special
point at issue was the requirement that
mining district recorders should deposit
their records of locations with the
County Recorder. Judge Virden says
they "don't have to-
A new gold field has been discovered
in the past three months, in which
Los Angeles parties are doing we'll and
heavily interested. 1t lies across the
borders of San Bernardino and River
side counties, in the Virginia Dale min
ing district, skirting Eagle mountains.
The nearest station is at Palm Springs
on the Southern Pacific. The district
ombines both quartz and placer
ground, the former assaying from $25 to
SIS per ton. J. Matt and others PANIED
and washed out 171s ounces of coarse
gold in few weeks, with several mug
gets from So to SIS. Prospecting parties
are forming daily, and it is likely that
a town of several thousand persons will
shortly arise.
The mining editor of the San Fran
cisco Examiner thus comments on the
sales of three-for-a-nickel and two-ior
accent stocks that are made on the local
exchange:
"The Los Angeles Mining Exchange
seems to be doing lively business in
stocks. At first glance the sales count
up thousands of shares, but closer in
vestigtaion shows, at price of from
~ cents upward, seldom exceeding 81,
at which rates an investment of few
dollars will load up man to the capac-
ity of his pockets. 1t would sound like
big business if the price of shares was
omitted. There may not be much
profit, but there is a good deal of fun in
it, and keeps up show of business. A
man can paper his house with shares
for the cost of wall paper, and if by any
chance 1-cent shares of mine making
a strike advance to dollars, the good
housewife has ever housekeeping fund
at hand. All she has to do is to re-
move share or two to meet the milk
mans bill"
The following important decisions,
published by San Francisco contem-
porary, in regard to the right to follow
mineral lode, will be of interest to
mining men in this section.
''The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals has in the case of theTyler Min
ing Company VS.. Sweeney, reported in
81, Federal Reporter, page 277, decided
that when vein of .mineral-bearing
rock, in it's course lengthwise, after pas
sing under the surface limits of one To-
cation, on which it outcrops, crosses
nearly at right angles the side lines of
another, prior location, on which it also
outcrops, the side lines of such prior
location becoming, by the reason of the
course of the vein, it's end lines, the right
to follow the lode in it's downward
course, between the vertical planes
drawn through such end lines. belong
ing to such prior location, and the extra
lateral rights of the other location cease
when the vertical plane so drawn be-
tween the two locations is reached.
"The same court in the case of the
Republican Mining Company vs.. the
Tyler Mining Company, reported on
page 1888 of the same volume of the Fed
eral Reporter, also finds that when a
lode enters an end line of regularly To-
Gated mining claim and runs it's cour
lengthwise, nearly parallel with the
side lines of the claim for the greater
part of the length of the claim, the
owners of the claim are not deprived of
their extra lateral rights because the
lode crosses a side line before reaching
the other end lines, but such rights
shall extend from the end at which the
lode enters to the point at which it
crosses the side line, whether new end
line is regarded as being drawn at that
point or not
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