The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-19
THE RANDsBURG MINES.
The New Camp Has the Earmarks of
q Great District.

The new camp of Randsburg, which
is located in the Mojave desert, Califor-
MIA, near the edge of Death Valley,
has all OF the earmarks OF being a
wonderful district. In speaking of this
camp, the San Diego World says:
o. H. Savage, western manager for
the Feron & Balloon company, at San
Jose, has returned from Randsburg and
johannesburg, in the Moiave min
ing district, which has astonished the
entire country by its marvellous rich
Eess. Mr.. Savage gives glowing &C
counts OF the mines. and says they
much more than justify all that mas
been said OF them. leaning from the
railroad station keeps many outfits
busy, so great has the traffic become
that the Southern Pacific company is
arranging to build railroad from Mo-
lave, and the surveyors are now at
work running a line back from Rands-
burg and Johannesburg. When asked
as TO the stability of the mines, Mr.
Savage said:
1.-The half has not been told. No such
extensive or such rich mining section
has ever been discovered anywhere be-
fore, and the beauty of it is the mines
have all paid their way from the grass
roots down. The mine-owners are not
inviting anybody to come; they are
too busy working their mines and TAX
ing out the gold to worry their heads
about anything else.
THE boom We all hear about is
worked I'D by the railroads and town
lot owners, and, strange to say, nearly
everybody who has lots has made
good turn on them. and improvements
are going on rapidly. Hundreds of wag-
ons laden with lumber and merchandise
travel from Mojave to Randsburg and
from Kramer TO Randsburg. The pro-
ceSsion never ends, day or night"
There are fully 5000 people in and
around the Rand district, and great
many valuable mines are now being
worked The milling is done within
radius OF ten or y miles of Rands-
burg, where plenty of water is obtain
able. Prominent capitalists and mine
owners of Los Angeles and Randsburg
are now developing big water supply
within a few miles of Randsburg, and
extensive mills will soon be erected, to-
gether with a cyanide plant. The water
question will not be a drawback much
longer
Wealthy mining men of this state
and from Colorado have at last ceased
crying down the Rand district in the
hope of getting mining properties at
their own figures, and are now quietly
buying every good mine which IS
offered 81 anything like a reasonable
figure, and in many instances where
very little development has been done,
which shows their faith in the section"
Mr.. Savage was asked concerning the
report that he had purchased the
Winnie and Yucca Tree, both valuable
mines, located within a mile and a half
of Randsburg, in the rich Yucca sec
ton of the Rand district, for round
sum in. spot cash, and that he had
been offered a handsome profit on his
investment by prominent California
and Colorado mining men.
THE statement is correct" said Mr.
Savage. Several persons have been
figuring with me to get the property
for an English syndicate, but 1 will
soon push work with a big force, as
the mines are both opened up and not
mere prospects, there being fully S15,-
600 worth of rich gold ore in eight al
ready uncovered
A remarkable feature of the many
towns is that the cost of living is not
much greater than it is here, and
everything desired can be had almost
as easily. There is a thorough organ
iZation Of the citizens. and life and
property are as safe as anywhere.