The herald., 1897-08-30
MINES AND MINERS
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California

A cyanide plant is to be erected upon
the mine in, the Rand district owned by
the Gold Bug Mining company, which
was recently incorporated under the
laws of Arizona. The mine is we'll de-
veloped and has plenty of good ore in
sight. The president, Mr.. Kearney, is
an old experienced Colorado mining man
and knows how to develop mine.
Last week the Yellow Rover Mining
company was incorporated. in this city
to work some mines near Acton, this
county.
C. D. Howry has returned from Rands-
burg where he went to look at some min
ing property which he is interested in.
While there he made careful examina
tion of the Wedge. Mr.. Howry says the
work is going right on in the Wedge and
that the company has sacked and shipped
over 500 sacks of ore during ten days in
the past week, all of which was taken
from the 16O foot level, pending the work
on the new machinery that is being put
into the Wedge This ore is as rich as
ever and the clean up will make possible
the usual Wedge divident, which all in
dications show will be declared as usual.
The Los Angeles Mining and Stock
modious quarters in the Bradbury build
ing on Broadway. An assessment of $40
was recently levied upon the members to
furnish the new quarters and to pay the
large rent now assumed, which is just
double their present rent of SIS per
month.
The Merced mine at Randsburg has
sent down near a dozen gold bricks av-
eraging $1,000 each from a shaft that Is
down only 100 feet. Several twenty-ton
lots average $1SO per ton.
The Winnie mine at Randsburg en-
ploys about thirty men and is pushing
development as fast as possible. In
June the mine shipped over $12, 900 of
rich ore but the output since then is not
known. No shaft is over 100 feet deep.
DR.. R. w. Whomes has incorporated
the Sunset Mining company and intends
opening some mines in the Cedar dis
trict near Acton.
Edgar Beardslee of the Western
Union Telegraph company, and some
other Los Angeles capitalists have Sc
cured good piece of property from l..
W. Morgan, the assayer of this city.
Mr. Morgan recently made a trip out
on the desert to the Needles and bonded
the property.
Three thousand dollars per month is
being taken from the Ranchita mine in
the Julian district, San Diego county.
The five stamp mill is kept busy on $50
ore from development work only. There
is now 100 tons of fine ore on the dump
which the mill is not able to handle, be-
sides hundreds of tons of ore in sight in
the mine which will not be touched as
long as development work keeps the
mill going. Thomas Pheby of Oakland
has rich prospects in the PananGnt dis
trict, which he is now developing. 1t
consists of a big stony vein Of ore that
assays from s35 to $40 per ton. His COM
pany has two miles of the ledge located
and is now sinking three shafts on the
vein, one of which is down over 1870 feet.
The value of the ore holds out all the
way down. Mr.. Pheby, who is an old
and experienced miner, thinks his pros
poets promise to prove one of the biggest
mines yet found on the coast.
The Randisburg Miner reports three
deals of Importance: E. Lee Allen, gen.
eral manager of the Little Butte mine,
! has purchased the Little Butte extension
and the remaining interests in the Mon
key Wrench claims. These properties
are a continuation Of the Little Butte
and, are in a direct line of the rich lode
which passes through the full length Of
the Little Butte. The groupings of the
ledge can be traced through the entire
property Mr.. Allen will begin develop
ment work early in September and un-
der his successful management it will
no doubt be developed into as profitable
a mine as the famous Little Butte.
Col. Hafford and A. G. Bowman closed
a deal last week in which they sold to
Captain J. B. Black of Salt Lake one of
their mines in the slate range fifty miles
north OF Randsburg. The consideration
was s1S,0OO Captain Black is the repre-
sentative of Utah capitalists and it is
their intention to erect a mill upon the
property and begin the reduction of the