Mesa free press., 1898-04-08

were dry wines. This is the greatest
product Of one season in the history
of the state.
TIMES AND MINING.
KLONDIKE UNDER WATER.
A party of practical mining men
left this week for Lower California, to
start on what is expected to prove a
Klondike. 1t is basin in the Jaca
litos, the catchment Of large tribu-
tary gold-bearing country, and sup
posed to contain the washings of veins
from all the surrounding country.
These men, including Jack Wescott,
John Albright and several Mexicans,
propose to drain this basin by a short
cut through a side hill and down a
canon, thus exposing the ground for
placer work. 1t is said there is plenty
of water to be had for hydraulicing.
At the head of this basin are num-
ber of gulches, all running into the
canon that leads to the basin below.
All bear gold in greater or les quanti
ties, and have been worked on the
coyote plan by Mexicans for many
years. But the time has come for more
scientific and thorough work. The
projectors, it is claimed, are backed by
sufficient capital to drain the basin
and equip the workings with hydraulic
machinery. Some of the gulches at
the head of the basin have run co.
cents to the yard, with occasional
patches where Mexicans found 81 to-
the pan.
NOT TRUE.
A telegram from Washington stated
that upon information from Skaguay
that the rowdy element Of Alaska had
seized Brackets road leading to and
over the White pass and placed the
country in a state of terror, instruct
ions had been telegraphed Gen. Mer-
riam at Vancouver, Wash, to order
the infantry garrison of Skaguay to
take proper steps for the protection of
persons and property regardless of
expense attending movements of
troops.
The facts are that there is nothing
approaching state of terror in the
Skaguay district. The latest informa-
tion which came down on the boat ar
irving at Tacoma last week, said moth
ing about any trouble; everything was
reported to be entirely peaceable at
both Skaguay and Dyea.
A fourteen-inch vein of good ore has
been encountered in the Camperdown,
at Randsburg, that horns well, and
much of it will so $1OO per ton.
The Granite group of mines, owned
by the Riverside Mining Company,
will continue sinking to the 50O-foot
level. A forty-stamp mill will be
erected.
The Little Butte company at Rands-
burg is sinking to the 1000-foot level
on shaft No. 1, and is preparing to-
sink another shaft on the Monkey
wrench claim.
A party of San Francisco prospect
ors claim to have discovered vast de-
posits of bright blue turquoise that
cover many acres in the southeastern
end of San Bernardino county.
The Conchita Gold mining company,
w. L. Cartan, manager, will ship fifty
cars of machinery to the mines and
Denver bank account to Albuquerque
to be used in extensive development
of the big mines.
The indications are that the Poway
tin mine is a verify, assays made of
the ore at various points corroborating
the fact that the ore will yield five per
cent of the metal. The great Cornwall
mines are yielding but 21a per cent.
A rich strike is reported in the
Cristo mine at Jacalitos, owned by
Don Emiliano Imarra. Ore running
5000 per ton is being taken out. The
vein is four an one-half feet in width.
The shaft is down n feet.
Mining interests around Victor are
active now. A strike is
said to have been made in the Old
Judge mine. The Chapel group of
claims is said to have sold for $4,000.
A stamp mill is contemplated for i'm
mediate erection.
The old mining shaft near Galena,
Kan, into which the Staff1eback
family are supposed to have thrown
the bodies of people whom they have
robbed and murdered, is being cleaned
out preparatory for mining, and some
developments are expected.
A very rich discovery has been
made in the north end of the Palen
range in Riverside county by the
Adams brothers. Development work
has opened a large ledge which as
says 5000 per ton in gold. AS it is a
free milling proposition the owners
are negotiating with a syndicate to
get a stamp mill
The Executive Committee of the In
ternational Mining Congress met last
week at Salt Lake and issued an Off
cial call for the congress to assemble
in that city for a four days session
beginning on July 6. This organiza- |
ton is the direct outcome of the In
Gold mining convention
held in Denver last July.