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The herald., 1897-09-27
BAKERSFIELD

BAKERSFIELD, Sept. 25.-(Special
Correspondence.) 1t has been oppres-
sively warm here during the past few
days and although light shower of rain
fell last Tuesday it did not cool the at
mosphere to any extent.
Real estate men report an increased
activity in real estate, especially in
farming lands. The Valley railroad is
expected to reach Bakersfield soon after
New Years, which fact, coupled with
the demand for grain lands owing to the
high price of wheat, has caused decid-
ed upward tendency in prices. Mer-
chants expect very prosperous win ter
season in consequence of the advent of
the Valley railroad and the increased
area of grain to be sowr throughout the
county. Many new business buildings
and residences are now in process OF
construction here and contractors an
ticipate building boom during the next
year.
Forty-four deeds granting right Of
way to the Valley railroad through
Kern county were filed for record this
week. covering the entire route from
the Tulare county line to Bakersfield,
Will lIIe eACeptlOI Ol TWO pieces OF Ianu
the Day and Coffee ranches. These
have been contracted for, however, and
the papers will probably. be signed be-
fore Sunday. The railroad will prob
ably be exterded at once from Bakers
field to the foot of the mountains near
Roses station, on its way to Los Ange-
les.
The board of supervisors has just es-
tablished the county tax rate for the
coming year at $190 on the $1C0 valua-
ton. The assessed valuation of the
county for this year is $13, ,295.
A county health officer and subord-
nate health officers for the different dis
tricts throughout the county have been
appointed this week by the board of SUI
pervisors. The board has also decided
to call an election to vote upon the ques-
tion Of refunding s235,0O worth of Kern
county per cent bonds Gssued in 1899
at Az per cent, which will save the coun-
ty $3525.
A new and competing water company
has been Incorporated under the name
of the Electric Water company, with a
capital Of 100000, whose object among
other things is "to supply Bakersfield
and other cities and towns of Kern
county with water for domestic and 9TH
err purposes" The need of incorpora-
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21st, and that the managers of the Rand
Mines company purchased the Visalia
Milling company's mill and now propose
to run night and day, milling their own
ore.
Messrs. Hammond & Lively, owners
|. Of the Zelda, an extension of the Phoe-
nix mine, at Randsburg, uncovered a
thirteenfoot ledge on that claim last
week. The ore is free milling and aver
ages about $40 on top.
On the Tip Top they are sinking or a
four and one-half foot ledge that aver
ages SIS. In this ledge, Is vein varying
from eight to sixteen inches in width
that carries $1O0 rock.
The Randsburg Miner says: On the
Golden Bay mine at johannesburg they
are down 120 feet in shaft No. and have
a thirteen-foot ledge.
The Alameda has made another rich
strike in shaft No. 3, where they four
two feet of $3.50 ore at a depth of seventy
five feet. Grading for the ten stamp
mill will be begun the first of the week,
when Messrs Griffith & Ritchie Of Los
Angeles will be in johannesburg to su-
pervise the same. The concentrator ex.
pecteu " stdIt up last week 10 run reg
ularly. They have been much delayed
by the non-arrival Of some necessary
parts of the machinery.
Messrs. Beach, Moore and others have
bonded the Iron Chief mine In the Eagle
mountains to Chas D. Lane of the Utica
mine at Angels Camp, Calaveras coun- :
ty. Considerable ore has been shipped
from the mine that gave returns Of from
$3.50 to $400 per ton smelling ore.
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was taken from the surface in days gone

| was taken from the surface in days gone
| by. The discovery of Rich Hill and the
Vulture mine In 1868 caused consider
| able excitement. AS much as $40, ,000
day was taken from the Rich Hill
| placers. 1t has never refused to show
good colors, even to this Gay, and fire.
! quently a good-sized nugget is found.
| There Is a possibility that some day ii
will open up new ground as rich as the
| virgin sands found on the crest of the
old hill The lode from which this gold
came cuts through the backbone Of the
| hill, and is denuded by cash in the hill.
The hill contains many lodges, and most
OF them carry good values in gold The
Little Johnnie mine is located on one of
them. A large blowout makes it a
| conspicuous spot to the traveller over the
old Phoenix and Prescott stage road.
1t was left for Mr.. Hadley of Baltimore
to sink shaft there, ard he is fast de-
veloping good mine which promises to
zona Silver Belt.
s. A. Parnall has let contract for 600
feet of development work on the Copper
Prince mine on Pinto creek, recently
bonded from Charles Bernhard
The strike in the Continental reported
last week has proved to be very import
ant. Harry Newcomb, foreman at the
Continental, who was In Globe the other
day, stated that the cross cut had pro-
gressed 20 feet, and was all in ore.
Sinking has been resumed, on instruc-
tions from New York, and as soon as Su-
perintendent Amster returns from the
east, which will be in few days, devel-
opment work will be more vigorously
prosecuted.
Work is progressing on the site for the
extension to the mill Of the Common
wealth mine at Pearce. When this ad-
dition is completed the capacity Of the
mill will be nearly doubled They have
magnificent Corliss compound engine
supplying power for hosting, pumping,
lighting, etc. The mine Is lighted by
electricity.
A gang of twelve men is at work lust
in the rear of the school house al Pearce
sinking shaft or prospect hole. They
expect to strike continual ton of the
rich Commonwealth ledge.
In recent letter Giles Otis Pearce,
the metallurgist of the Rio Colorado
Gold Extraction company, says that the
company has dispatched three four
horse teams and three large ore wagons
overland to its group of mines in Yuma
county The outfit is now on the road
somewhere near the line between Ari-
zona and New Mexico. In a few days
the boilers, engires and mill will be
shipped from Colorado City, Col, by rail
and Colorado river steamers. The
mines are about five miles from the
Colorado river, and the mill will be put
up near the river. Teams will haul the
ore from the mine to the MILL The ca
pacity of the mill is about fifteen tons
per Cay, and is expected to be crushing
ore about the last of October.
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Lower California

Engineer Ismeal Sanchez has returned
to Ensenada from the sulphur mines on
the Colorado river, where he has been
making some surveys.
John McCool and D. G. Mitchell OF
Riverside, CAL, were in Ensenada last
week on mining business connected with
the Juarez placers, for which they have
recently received patent from the Mex
lean government.
Captain Hutton is developing the Cen
tipede mine, at Alamo, in company with
Messrs. Davis and Hartzell, and Mr.
Cole of this city, and has the shaft down
on the property eighty-five feet, with
most encouraging prospects. guam.
tity of the ore recently milled gave very
satisfactory results.
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MINES AND MINERS
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California

Judge Robert Gardner of Julian has
purchased the Ruby mill at Banner, and
will hereafter develop and work his own
mines and crush the ore in the Ruby
mill.
G. H. Hubbs has found rich ledge
of smelling ore in the Alpine mine in
San Diego county.
The Mining and Metallurgical Journal
contains the following regarding the
mines on the desert at Garlock: Parker
& Mcconnell, whose mine is south of
Garlock, have bought the McKirnan
mill and leased the Henry & Co. mill,
both of which they are running day
and night. Their vein is very wide, and
ore is mined for 30 cents hauled for 81,
and mills $12 to SIS per ton.
The Ballarat stage is taking a great
many people to Panamint lately, and
especially since the very hot weather is
over. Ballarat itself is getting to be
quite an important little town, demand
ing school and postoffice.
F. Fl. Heald has sold his gold mines
near this place to the Cavil Gold Mining
company of Yuma, Ariz., for 81, ,000, 900
in stock, and the property is to be de-
veloped at once. They are located near
the coal mines and have a good water
supply.
1t is reported that the Rand Mine COM
pany is making plans for sixty stamp
mill at Garlock. The question Of water
is no longer doubtful, as all the mills
are prepared to use the water over and
over when necessary.
D. r. Webb has sold one-third inter-
est in his mine to the inventor Of the
Huntington mill for 100000, and five of
those mills are to be put in at Garlock.
All the big teams are busy, and a half
a dozen more fourteen to twenty-mule
teams could find employment hauling
ore to the mills.
An English syndicate has acquired
ownership of 320 acres of auriferous
grounds in the Hocumac placer district,
San Bernardino county, and has spent
about 100000 for a hydraulic plant to
work them. When they started up last
year it made the water of San Antonio
canyon so muddy that they were en-
Joined. Under the new law they have
been permitted to resume operations,
under certain restrictions as to time,
and brush dams have been put in to
protect the users of the canyon water.
A cave occurred at the Red Rover
shaft at Acton last week, about thirty
t6ive feet below the top of the shaft, but
nothing serious happened. II will per-
haps delay the work in the mine for a
week or 80, but as there is considerable
rock on the dump it will not stop the
mill. New timber is being put in now.
The Red Rover is making another thir-
ty-day run. From present indications
1t will exceed the last cleanup, which
was the largest in the history of the
mine.
Work has commenced on the new rail-
road from Kramer to Randsburg 1t is
stated that this road will be an inde-
pendent line and will not be in control
| Of the company that Is to build the road
from Salt Lake City to San Pedro.
It ~ reported that all the stamp mills
at Garlock were started up September
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also the best ever grown The fruit IL
of uniform size and very smooth.
A report Is current here that tht
Southern Pacific company will begin
the erection of their long promised pas
senger depot within a few days. Pa
irons OF the road hope that the rumoi
is we'll founded, and they also hope that
the company will soon change the ole
motor passenger cars, which are not
much better than freight cars, for some
modern cars This is change long
promised but slow to materialize.
Alix Murray, the 15-year-old son OF
Mrs. NJ M. Murray, who was quite Sc
verely injured in bicycle collision Sat-
urday, is up and out again.
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because of the numerous accidents
which have attended road races in the
past.
The schools of this city and of Mag
nolia and Arlington districts, which are
also included in the city, will open to-
morrow for the fall term.
The city trustees have just sold $4,000
worth of bonds and from the proceeds
will build a new four-room modern
school house on East Seventh street to
accommodate the largely increased
number of pupils in that section of the
city.
Those competent to Judge say that
the coming orange crop Of the valley
will not only be by far the largest, but
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Arizona

+ Chas. F. Kuhnen of Florence, Arizona
while in Los Angeles last week sold the
Mammon mine to Southern California
capitalists for $4,000, and active devel-
opment work will be started at orce. I.
Ingham is to be manager of the prop
erty.
Taylor D. Macleod Of Yuma has sold
his group of gold mines to Colorado par
ties and will superintend the develop
ment of the property.
M. G. Burns has put two men at work
on the group of gold mines recently
bonded by him in Copper Basin. He
will put up whim and increase the
force.
In the Union mine, Union Basin, Mo-
have county, cross cut at the fifty foot
level revealed, body of ore thirteen feet
in width. The ore carries gold with a
small amount Of silver. The whole vein
will pay to mill. 1t is understood that
1t is the intention of the company TO
prospect for water in the edge of the
valley, and If a sufficient supply is OBJ
tained, forty stamp mill will soon be
erected.
1t is said the water In the Treasury
mine at White Hills, Mohave county, is
constantly increasing, and will soon
furnish supply sufficient to run the
forty stamp mill. The ore body in the
Treasury is proving to be very rich.
The Monte Cristo mine on Groom
creek is shipping three or four tons of
rich ore per week. The quality as well
as the quantity, of the ore continues up
to the usual standard that it has been
for the past three or four months.
The force of miners at the Lost Gulch
mine. near Globe, was increased to
eight men last week Superintendent
Innes is encouraged by the improved
appearance of the mine and IL hopeful
that he will open paying ore bodies.
The placer ddggings all over the ter
ritory show that Z great- dsal Of gold
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KERN COUNTY

+ tion, in order to obtain better water IA
cilities and other municipal require
ments, is becoming more evident daily
now that Bakersfield is sure to become
one Of the prominent cities of Califor-
MIA.
TEHACHAPI
The illustrated article on Tehachapi
intended for publication in Sunday S
issue, was unavodably crowded out and
will appear some day during the present
week.
Fifty tons of lime rock are being haul
ed to town. from the Union Lime Rock
company's quarries. for shipment to Los
Angeles, where it will be burned with
Los Angeles crude petroleum as fuel
This is said to be an experiment, in order
to determine whether it will pay to make
regular shipments Of the lime rock to
Los Angeles or not.
A large bear was seen about four miles
north of Tehachapi in the foothills last
week. Hunters followed the trail. but
bruin eluded them and made his escape.
Several carloads of beef cattle ard
calves were shipped, from here to Los
Angeles last week.
A large NuInDer Oh people lIOll lHiS
town and vicinity went to see the circus
at Bakersfield last Wednesday,
MOJAVE
]. p. Mcfarland is at Bakersfield,
having been summoned to serve as
term trial juror. He was one of the
jurors in the Scott (Randsburg) case,
which crime was adjudged to be man.
slaughter.
Geo. w. Glow, Justice of the peace, has
returned after an extended visit to the
north Pacific coast. Owing to the I'M
preston that he had absented himself
longer than the leave of absence grant
ed by the board of supervisors called
for, three candidates for the office had
petitions circulated asking for their ap-
pointment; but Mr.. CLOVIS return will
probably stop further proceedings in the
matter, especially as Mr.. Glow affirms
that he resumed his duties before his
leave of absence had expired.
w. N. Meadows, one of the owners Of
Mammoth No. mine and other claims
in Mojave mining district, has been Sc
riously i'll in Los Angeles with typhoid
fever, but is now recovering.
The travel via Mojave to Randsburg
continues to increase, taxing the ca
pacity of w. K. Miller's stage line to the
utmost, and it is predicted that with the
recent rich discoveries of ore in that dis
trict the coming winter will be a very
busy one in the town and mines.
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SAN BERNARDINo

SAN BERNARDINO, Sept. 26.-(Reg-
ular Correspondence A little differ
ence Of opinoion late Saturday night
caused the pulling of gun, and only
the interference of one man prevented
calling on the coroner to investigate
the matter. Louis lie Fevre is the pro-
pretor of the Nonpareil saloon, and it
was near the hour of closing when
George Brazelton, Frank Starke and
Ernest Somers entered the place and
lined up for their beverage, at the same
time asking Louis to take something
with them. While attending to their
wants LIE Fevre remarked to Brazel-
ton, George, I hear you have been talk
ing about me--been doing me dirt"
whoever says that is liar" was the
prompt reply, with an oath. and on in
quiry as to who the informant was he
was told it was Ed Grimes. Then Ed
Is liar If he says so, and I can lick
him; and you are no better, to believe
what he says, and I can lick you, too,
if you want to take it up" There had
been bad blood between the men for
some time and no sooner were the words
out of his mouth than Brazelton was
looking down the muzzle Of a revolver
with an angry, half-drunken man 3 fin
ger on the trigger. Starke dropped TO
the floor to get out of range, and the
others who We're there scattered, except
Somers, who struck the muzzle down,
giving Brazelton time to get outside and
start for his gun at his office, just around
the corner. Friends interfered, and he
swore out a warrant instead, and it will
he sarvad Mnuday
The proverbial new broom" is get
ting its work in good shape, the afore-
said new broom being c. S. Newhall,
who came here to protect the forests
on the reserves. While looking after
the persons who have been setting for
est fires last week, he came across a
five-acre patch that had been entirely
denuded of it's growth of trees by the
proprietors Of the Greenlead mine, the
wood being used for fuel and for tim
bering up the mine. Coming down New
hall swore out warrants against Jock
Simmons, Dr. D. r. Dickey, Alex Good
fellow and T L. Parker for the offense,
Deputy United States Marshal Oaks
came from Los Angeles and carried
the men before the proper officer of the
United States court in that city. Sim
The herald., 1897-09-27
PASADENA

PASADENA, Sept. 26,-(Regular Cor
respondence.) Paul Rowan, son of DR..
George D. Rowan of East Colorado
street, broke his arm last evening. He
was hurrying through with his delivery
of the Los Angeles Record so that he
could go to the circus in the evening.
On the corner of Los Robles avenue and
East Colorado street there is a bad turn
of the North Los Robles branch of the
electric road which has given bad
tumble to more than one bicyclist. Paul's
wheel struck this rail and he was thrown
with sufficient force to break two bones
In his right arm. He had watered the
elephant in the morning, for which he
was given pass. He went to the circus
despite the pain of the broken bones.
Late at night, several hours after the
eccid ant, the boy was attended by a
physician, who informed him that it
would be several days before he could
attend any more circuses or his school
either.
THE PRESBYTERY
Tuesday and Wednesday Of this week
the Southern California presbytery
meets in the local Presbyterian church.
A number of cards and invitations have
been sent out by Rev. N. H. G. Fife, and
1t Is thought that about seventy five
ministers and elders will be present. The
members of the church will entertain
them Rev. r. B. Tayler will have charge
of the program, which will include a
meeting of the Young Peoples societies.
Rev w. r. Henderson of Cotton will
deliver the opening sermon. The ques-
tion of a synod for Southern California
will be considered. Rev. j. H. Stewart
of Redlands and H. p. Wilbur of San
Fernando will deliver addresses in the
interest of home missions On Tuesday
evening and Wednesday afternoon the
ladies of the church will serve lunch.
OST-WASHBURN
Frank NJ. Washburn, the North Fair
Oaks jeweler, and Mrs. Ida NJ. Frost
were married at noon today at the First
Christian church, Rev. j. H. Bauserman
on1ciating. The church had been lavishly
decorated for the occasion and the cere-
mony was performed Immediately upon
the conclusion of the regular church SER
vices. A large congregation witnessed
the wedding. Mr.. and Mrs. Washburn
will reside In their new home on North
Pasadena avenue. Both the bride and
the groom have large number of
The herald., 1897-09-27
Pick and Pan

IT Southern California is to share in
the benefits to be derived by the deliber-
ations of the California Miners associa-
tion, it is time that county organization
were effected and live delegates ap-
pointed. 1t will be useless to call meet
ings, as was done last year, and appoint
large list and have no representatives
there. The editor OF the Mining and
Metallurgical Journal has been the sole
delegate for Southern California for
several years. 1t is time the counties in
Southern California gave substantial
proof of their interest in the associa-
ton and sent good delegation from ev-
cry mining camp, as it is ore Of the best
ways to allow the outside world to know
that mines exist in this part Of the state.
The seven counties in this neighborhood
contain 3SA per cent Of the entire area
Of the state and certainly need more ad-
vertising than the northern counties,
where good paying mines have been in
operation for the last forty-flve years.
County organizations are urged to
help in every possible way. both by
sending delegates and appropriatirg
funds to carry on the work which has
been so ably begun by the northern
counties.
1t is a well-esta blished fact that cop
per held in solution in. water can be cas-
lily obtained by using iron as a precip-
liant, but as precipitation Of copper In
solution with iron is comparatively slow
and in many instances costly, a more
active and less expensive precipitant
was much in demand. But Thomas
Wran late NJ Enraka h1If uou nf T2euo
Nevada, seems to have solved this prob
lem beyond a doubt. Mr.. Wren has
made the question. study, and, after
repeated and numerous experiments
with different substances, has discover
ed that copper in solution in water can
readily be thrown down with alkali.
Alkali will precipitate the copper at
once. while iron requires from twenty
four hours to several months-depend-
Ing upon the amount Of iron ueed
J b. II I.| ~ I
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RIVERSIDE COUNTY

from Los Angeles and the judges will he
named by the principals themselves, so
that there will be no dissatisfaction. The
date OF the race has not been finally
agreed upon, but 1t will take place in
about three weeks.
The Riverside Training league, which
has managed the euccessful meets in this
city, has decided to hold no more road
races. Ths action Of the club ID taken
The herald., 1897-09-27
RIVERSIDE

RIVERSIDE, Sept. Irregular Cor
respondence) The Tabor Shoemaker
bicycle match race Is now sure go, and
all the details will be arranged this week.
The boys will race for handsome medal
and the winner will lay claim to the am
ateur championship Of Southern Cali
fornia. Pacemakers win be procured
The herald., 1897-09-27
LOS ANGELES COUNTY
friends in Pasadena who wish them hap
piness

piness.
BREVITIES
James V. Knettles, arrested last night
for peddling envelopes, etc., without q
license, was given five days in the city
Jail. Knettles was seen to approach the
rear of house where he had found nc
one at home, which aroused the suspi-
cion of a neighbor, and led to his arrest
The funeral services of Frank Grimm
were held yesterday afternoon in Lip
pencott'S chapel. Private interment was
made in Mountain View cemetery. Rev
Haskell Smith of All Saints Episcopal
church officiated.
Mr.. H. A. Gibson of Los Angeles was
the speaker at the regular meeting Of the
Theosophical society this evening, his
subject being Harmony"
D. S. Diedenbach and Eugene Grau of
Ell Monte ran into car of the Pasadena
and Los Angeles electric railway last
night on South Fair Ooaks avenue. No
body was hurt. but the buggy was badly
demolished,
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And all it costs is
Is Cents

A map, provided you are reader of The Her
aid, and if you are not it will cost you IS cents.
The title page Of the cover is neatly en-
graved and shows Klondike Canyon full Of
golden nuggets.
The last page of the cover contains an
epitomized statement of the new mining laws
of Canada affecting the Klondike country
Cut out tine Annexed Coupon
and follow directions and the
Pathfinder to Klondike is yours