The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-17

and was sold to Munson Leighton of
Los Angeles for $4,000.
/ The new owners put men to work sink
ing the Napoleon last Monday and it is
the intention to push development work
and show what is in the ground as quick
| as possible. A good strike may be looked
for at any time. Hon. +. S. Munson, one
| OF the purchasers OF this group of mines,
J is City Councilman of Los Angeles. He is
not In the habit of doing things by halves
and will at once push the work of develop
ment to its utmost. He is now starting a
double com partment shaft on the Napo-
leon and will put up mill as soon as sui
icient Gre and water to warrant it.
The pioneer business houses of Rands-
burg deserve great credit for overcoming
the expense and difficulties attendant
upon bringing in merchandise, building
material and all kinds OF supplies and
keeping down prices to about the same as
in towns upon the line of a railway. The
| firm of Hammond & Co. were the first 10
open general store, when only twenty
five or thirty people were in the district.
They have kept pace with the camp and
now have large stock of genera! mer-
chandise and make miners supplies a
| speciality.
}. w. Ragsdale OF MADEIRA was one of
the first to invest in Randsburg mining
properties. He has formed a copartner-
ship with Mr.. Fugard, a capitalist and
mining man of Los Angeles. They have
erected fine office building and are han
ding mines, real estate, investments,
buying and selling mining properties, etc.
rI1,x I T ~ 8
the best mines in the district, and have
made some of the biggest sales yet made
in the camp.
Major E. +. Bean of the Randsburg
Development Company is one of the
most active men IN the camp in buying
and selling mining properties, and repre-
sents great deal of capital seeking in
vestment. The Major has been rustling
in the camp from its start and has been
handling some big propositions.
James & S. Montgomery, formerly of
Omaha, are the pioneer wholesale liquor
dealers in Randsburg. They located here
in April, 1896, and have practically got
the liquor trade corraled.
J. NJ. Crawford of Bakersfield put up the
third building in the camp four months
ago, and now owns nearly the entire block.
He Is doing a splendid wholesale and re-
tail liquor business.
II. l.. Nelson, the pioneer mining broker,
buys and sells mining property; invest
ments, insurance, abstracts, real estate,
notary, deeds, etc.
DR.. Hampstead, the pioneer druggist,
was the first to establish a pharmacy in
the camp, and now has the only complete
line of drugs within distance of sixty five
miles in any direction. He has become
quite popular in the camp and practically
holds the entire business in his line
The Randsburg Produce Company, COM
posed of Los Angeles gentlem en-, has been
building up splendid business in ship
ping produce to the surrounding camps.
1t was esta blished here Deem Der 16, 1896,
and has the only strictly produce house in
the camp.
Claude Bohanon has wholesale and
retail liquor-house, carrying fine line of
goods. He is agent for the Fredericks-
burg Brewing Company-also Constable
and Deputy Sheriff.
The tri-weekly mail service in and out
of Randsburg is very inadequate. Petit
lions for daily service have long since
gone to Washington, but action seems to
be very slow. The fact is the mails are
cum bersome, naturally, made so by &C.
cum ulation at Mojave, where they may
| be short of help, but where the service is
actually worse than none at all. Letters
nave been delayed eight and ten days
going each way through the Moiave office,
and it would be far better if they would
take. the pouches direct from the train to
| the stages and let the Randsburg office
do the distributing for Garlock and Goler.
In this manner great delays would bs
overcome, as the Postmaster at Randsburg,
J Mr.. Clyde Kuffol is live, active and
obliging young man, and frequently works
up to IL and II o'clock at night to &C
commodate the public in the delivery OF
their mail. He has just put in large
number of new Yale lock- boxes and the
Office presents quite metropolitan APP
pearance. ]. +. KNAPP