The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-10

10 In u ten by twelve structurc:with q canvas
there are The "csf6 'Roysi," the '. Majestic"
and the Saloon de Paris Z" in tents and rude
board buildinss on the outskirts Of the place.
gold and siiv.r ore IN every mining town in the
from the, continsntsi' Divide 70 the g,0i 9sSISo
Ocean feels that the true spirit OF q flash min
teno layout in ali ksndsSurs. and only yut th Gs:
faro and two roulette games running of a night.
oo The general .; ; business wa 2 Interest. q Hsnas6Srs
stores that were hammered together in a day or
two, and that hold composite stocks of drugs,
GOES, groceries. and piles q %overalls and Big
heavy shoes and boots; Rough lumber sells in
SO to saa . ton .S WOOD from 's IS 10 sio p pey e seG%
coal from Gallup, N. NJ. at SIS per ton. and
human Snass a arin.{n per p Ssrpe, Of or fOsiy 'sJ s. p.S S.r 1Sf
for stock. Town lots are held at from $50 to
$1,000, the higher agu5e being ask for Casey's
merely sQuatters' rights first come, fret served.
and ",let him take who has the power and lot
some OF the mining companies under their placer
locations, and a test case is now IN the courts or
cation. But against the prophecies of the
croakers comes the assertion Of the optimists;,
way. on nothing but squatters' tities.".
So they go on buying and selling. building and
q land Of chance aud risk, and the shafts of the
imagination continue to be sunk In tho exhaust
The .iory, OF the nnding of the ledge. of gold
ore at Randsburg Is interesting. Tales 20 up
and down the strsgsling thoroushfsres Of the
who carved charscterlstic letters on the
miles north Of town. to tell future gen.
CREATIONS Of the stupendous prizes hidden
S SsSra.h THEM seo there sfeu am. .toqies OF Of hs sSnd in s the
iIeuiensnt in Gen. FremonIs sTmy IN Cal.
two years later, no passed several years in
great desert for the locality OF his early diseov-
cry. Fortunes come ih strange ways on tho
are weird and spectral. and on the barren wastes.
that stretch several hundred miles In three d.
rections.. hot sand winds beckon the treasure
but gaunt cactus as far as the eye can reach.
Not even vultures or Indians will live In tho
marks In an hour. aud the bleaching human
bones on the wful waste tell how many n ven
turesome traveller has laid down his life there
The facts that interest most OF the thirsty
gold seekers are that two OF the recent finders
OF the lodges were com parative novioes at min
thirty years hundreds OF tho best known pros
Randsburg buttes with no more than q passing
thought Of the possibilities in those rocks. In
inS ,leo WITH WI. IanSdon to the pl.osr mines
at Goler. In the mountains across the Mojayo
desert. They went IN the interest OF . Los An
neles newspaper. and their business WAS TO write
articles about q mining company there: The
men had but o few dollars, and had hard work
terested In what was to them q novel Industry
that Of washing sold from the mountain
40 fascinated by the new life In a mining
camp that they abandoned newspaper WORK:
and became miners, workins With the men At
Whenever the gang Was laid OF for q lew days
or a few weeks, Moocrs and Langdon. accom-
went out to prospect on their own account about
the edge of the desert Mooers reasoned that
tns p' %ast h sass been g fed from some snormou
lodges in that region. Burcham believed that
.uss lsdfs' had probably been ysry deeply COY, 2
Try to find them. In the winter OF lsa3-04 tho
three men. after hard work and some privations,
s. to a ton, but there was no water aud it wa,
useless to attempt dry washing on such n claim.
roId mine in such a country and went back to
Los Angeles. Mooers aud Burchan stuck TO
the search. For eleven months they travelled
about In a lumber wagon drawn by mules
across the desert. and among the mountains
aud along the foothills. Every day they pros.
their suffering for lack OF food and water on
Mooers and Bnrcham slept in a de.olato dry
canon. The next morning while they were
i ,SssE'S Breakfast BnreHSn e.me across a biz Of
protruding rock. He went back to the wagon:
got his hammer. as he had done thousands f
rock. He aud Moores locke II over, The gold
was sticking out in p%in-head PARTICLES; Both
Chunk was Knocked from tho butte. Moo-rs
and Burcham sat down and looked 1t over with
their pocket magnifying glasses r,.a voo.-.
There's no need to look further. All we've got
to do Is TO shovel the whole mountain into n
stamp mill and barrel up our gold"
There was no further thought OF break fast in
that camp that day. An assayer In Lo; Angeles
taken out was worth IN GOLD $3.50. 1t was OF
the size OF a large cabbage; For weeks Mooers
and Burcham kept their find a secret. They
went over aud over the mountain until they
knew all the best ledg In IT,. They called In an
ex experienced quartz miner, John singleton and
with him located some eight mines there. Then
they made cure they had clear titles to thelr
property. Their lawyer. Patrick Reddy OF san
interest in the mines gave the new mining nrm
a check for $4,000. to start development OF the
golden lodges.
Last May the claim to the mines was perfect.
ed. and the mining firm of Mooers. Bnrchaih
Singleton d Reddy was Incorporated. The nrT
ling and in sinking shafts into il. best lodges
and has developed the Oily IN pus. Yellow. hster
and Trilby mines more itan Others; An las
summer the mountain sides yielded ore tha'
averaged S94 a ton. and on some days 1t rat
into rock that was worth over $40 a ton. I'M
goes about .RAnd.burg that from september Z
November It sold over Sls5 900 worth OF ore
| and IL has not Dekun 10 reach tue ioukeb v
the richest rock IL to be found. II Ia an opel
secret among all tho miners In and about Rands
burg. that Charles u. Lane, the wealthies
miner on the Pacific coast to-day. offered TN
firm OF Mooers, Burcham. Singleton * Reddi
1850. 900 for n fourth interest In their propert,
when he was at RAndsburR n few weeks ago.
"A year from now" said Col. L. w. Brooks
who has been n gold miner In every camp on TN
Pacific coast since 1861. when NJ kandsburs
the other day. "the Rand group OF mines vii
be yielding $40. 900 a week. ] would not be sur
prised to Zee them run up 10 100000 IA day
But there are other men who have gone u
Randsburg poor, and whose lucky strokes o
the hammer on ledges have made Them 80 ricl
as to cause The tongues OF miners all owe
Southern California TO wag. There's Dan kel
Fey, who was a teaulster on n wagon that hauled
horax from Death Valley to MoJavo u year ago
lie hauled LUMBER to the Rand mine last July
before the richpess OF the rocks there wa
known by moro than 100 persons. He was USE
to tho drought OF the hlistering desert, an
dared much where other man would b
tinid. He spent two weeks fol!owin.
He IN and pecked his, wa
for six miles. and one Sunday lie Clipped oil
piece OF quartz mat made his eyes swim at tn
sight OF the golden fecks. That piece or rock
now exhibited In a saloon At Randsbnrg, and
led to Dams getting a partner to invest $1,000
for a half Interest. With this capital two tun
nels have been blasted into the edge for ! a.
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