Arizona republican., 1898-03-22
OVER THE MOHAVE DESERT.
A Rich Mineral Section on the Western
 Border of Arizona

A Rich Mineral Section on the Western
 Border of Arizona
 A correspondent of the Los Angeles Review gives an interesting account of a journey over the Mohave desert country which lies between California and Arizona. He says:
 In order to get some idea of the great expanse of the mineral belt in cluded in the Mojave desert is really necessary to travel a little in that sec tion.
 We started one day last week for a trip to the Spangler mines. Passing beyond Garlock, by Goler, we ascend ed a gradually slopiDg table land to the summit, about ten miles from Gar lock. Looking back from there the desert lake seems as if it were great bay of the ocean, while the Mojave hills look up like the peak of a dis tant island. Randsburg and Johan- nesburg across the valley southeast erly stand out very picturesquely. Northerly is the great basin known as the Borax Lake. It looks in the dis tance like a picture of a real snow lake. Beyond it rises up the State
  Looking a little more to the west in the Argus range, and still more direct ly west are the Pahute and adjacent mountains. All this stretich of coun- try for the past few months has been revealing new stores of mineral wealth. Four miles beyond the sum- init, in a little ravine between two mesas, is the oasis of the desert, known as Garden Station, a name well applied. Water is piped from the side of the mountain three miles distant, and five acres of land are enclosed in a beautiful orchard and garden. Here fiOurishes a variety of deciduous friuts, vines, flowers and vegetables. It is the property of the former Searls Borax company. Great care was taken to get these fruit trees started. It is said to have cost the company S10,000 to erect this station. It is a fascinat- ing place and the hospitality of MT. and Mrs. Teagle, who are we'll known in this mining region, gOes without saying.
 Six miles from Garden Station and about three miles easterly from the Borax, or Ballard road are the Span gler mines, which have been yielding such rich ores for the past few months.
 
 cated in one of the ridges running easterly to the lake basin
 The development work has all been on the westerly side. It consists of one tunnel, 10S feet, one tunnel. 160 feet; with drift forty feet, one shaft, 90 feet; one shaft 80 feet, besides smaller shafts and cuts. The tunnel ing has been nearly all dead work the drift and shafts furnishing the ore
 There has been a considerable dis placement of the lodges, which has made the developing work difficult In the drift of the 160 foot tunnel two smaller veins come together, making a larger ledge All indications point to large body of mineral matter in the base of the mountain. About 200 tons of rich ore have been milled There are about seventy-five tons of second grade ore on the dumps. They have just cleaned up the second run of eight tons in the two stamp mill at Garlock. It milled about $40 per ton It was mostly second grade ore. They have close to the mines a large we'll built house, stable corrals and other improvements. It is certainly one of the coming mines of the region.
 It is not a case of s20 gold pieces peeping out from behind the rock at you, but simply a promising and prac- tical mining proposition, in the hands of energetic young men. The Span gler brothers discovered this property themselves. They have done their own developing and mining, and are now fitting up to do their own mill ing, and have sufficient confidence in the mine to work it themselves. If this country had more such boys and less spectators there would be thou sands of paying mines today where there are only hundreds.