The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-22
MINERS AT RANDSBURG
STICK TO WORK WITH PICK AND
SHOVEL
No Idle Men in the Camp, and No
Reports of an Exodus to the
Clondyke

Special Correspondence to The Herald.
JOHANNESBURG, July 20.-The hot
weather of last week seemed to have
beneficial effect on the Rand mining
district, judging by the number of peo-
pie looking after investments in mining
properties 1t has been thought there
would not be much activity in that di
rection until the fall months, and own
ers of claims have been devoting their
time to the development of good Lodges
on their properties, and have given very
little attention to finding a buyer. That
capital is reaching cut after the mines
instead of the owners running after the
capitalists is a good indication of the
value of the lodges in this district.
There are more men on the payrolls
at present than ever before and it has
been asserted that there need not be
an idle man in the district unless he
chooses to be so. However true that may
be, it is fact that during the day the
streets of Randsburg and Johannes
burg are practically deserted Hundreds
of men are scattered through the hills
developing their own claims, others are
prospecting properties for absent own
ers, and still others are sinking shafts
on contract.
A representative of the Wells Dry con-
contractor has visited nearly all the min
ing men in the vicinity, and after thor
ough examination of the mines and ores
has concluded to locate here. The plant
will soon be on the ground, and inside
of two or three weeks will be ready for
run of ore. 1t is claimed that this
concentration will save from rs to 80 per
cent of the gold and has a capacity of
so tons a DAY.
The Kinyon mine last week shipped
so tons of ore to one of the Garlock mills
and the run netted the Kinyon family
$7400 in amalgam. In addition to this
the tailngs were sold for $500 to the own
ers of the cyanide plant, and will be
reduced by that process. A number of
assays were made of the tailings by Mr..
Kinyon and they ran from 500 to $50 per
ton. Comment on this, perhaps, is OUT
of place, but the necessity of new mills
and new mill-men at Garlock is obvious.
Messrs. Perdue & Thurston today
bonded the Golden Bar and Right Hano
Bower mines to G. H. Curtis, treasurer
v
company, and H. L. Hollis of Chicago
for SO O0O, part of which was paid down.
The mines adjoin the celebrated Ala
media property. The Golden Bar is open
ed by a 60 foot shaft, and at the bottom
the ledge is nine feet wide. At the So
foot level some drifting has been done,
and a body of high grade ore encoun-
tered. The Right Hand Bower is as
yet undeveloped, but the new owners
will begin prospecting it at once. They
have already let contracts to sink and
drift on the Golden Bar.
On Saturday Frank McNulty sold his
interest in the Monte Cristo, Alameda
No. and Golden Wedge claims to H. G.
Rose and G. NJ. Baker. These gentlemen
own a group of claims in this vicinity
and have development forces at work on
two of them.
j. M. Ermerins and G. A. Reynolds
have bonded the Lucky Baldwin mine
an extension of the Val Verde, and have
begun work on the same.
Quite a good deal has been said and
written about coal discoveries in the
desert, though but little credence was
placed in their extent or character, as it
was thought they Were but small, in
significant stringers and the coal of but
a poor quality. Recently, however, W.
B. Mcconnell H. T. Parker F. A. Pratt,
j. A. Haroldson and James Flanagan
returned from the coal fields, which are
located about twelve miles from Rands-
burg, bringing with them samples of the
coal, which is as fine as any Indigenous
to or ever introduced on the Pacific
coast They have become possessed of