The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-16


The rush OF miners and prospeetors began.
Sh@Ee stories Of sudden riches travel VI
| and down the crooked, rough streets Of thi'
| desert mining camp. Some are vOracous. bu
! most are founded in the i'm az nation OF hopeful
| men. who have left homo and little business
| and have como Fastening across the desert tC
| Chloride. believing that fate was calling then
| to fortunes in the sun-baked painted noun
| tains. The story OF the leap into wealth made
| by Andy Flynn Is one Of the most interesting
| told in Chloride. For eleven years Flynn has
| been n COvpuncher. a railroad brakeman
| aud prospectOr. Two years ago hC
| was laborer In the White Hills silver mines
| aud last fall whom no saw some ore from tho
Elkhnrt mine he went out and located "A claim
| q half mile away. He borrowed $50 and Set at
work to open the ledge and see how much and
what sort OF ore he had. In six weeks no ran
| short OF money and food. He could get nc
money in Chloride and discouraged. he walked
TO KinEman. There he offered to sell his claim
for 500. No one would So much as 60 and
look at the property. month more OF work
In q section gang on the Santa F6 Railroad and
Flynn had saved enough money to resume the
opening OF his ledge. He worked n few week 6
longer ON his property and got his shuft down
20 feet Then he began to crosscut to get the
width OF the vein
Il put in shot OF dynamite one morning.
says he Ia telling Of his mining experience.
and ran away to await the blast When
came back saw ruby silver tho purest silver
ore knownl lying all about in great chunks
was so excited that ] could hardly get down
into my miue to examine the exposed vein.
But there was no mistake about it. The ruby
silver lay there in n great pocket. Itrembled
with emotion. When came to assay some Of
that ore it ran to 5000 u ton. l was offered
: nn nlA t. 81, a 1ai1 l,,tI
was not selling any mine Of ruby silver for that
sum. A month later. that was last March. 1
sold on half tho Molis Gibson to George Car
ter OF Butte City. Mon. for $4,000. We are
now taking out ore that nets us $1,000 month,
but in ninety days more we shall more than
double the quantity Of ore each month"
Then there is Frank NJ. Desmond. who has
been a blacksmith in the little railroad town
OF Needles for ten years, and has had grim
struggle to keep the wolf away from his door.
Fortune came to him Unexpectedly. He has an
income now OF about 500 week and all be-
cause no made location OF his California mine
in the proper spot. Ho had been over at the
White Hills at work on somo machinery for the
mining company there. He started back
across the desert to return to KinGman last
January. At Chloride he met en- old friend.
who asked him to share his toni and grub for a
few days Desmond went out to see the oper-
atons fthe Huallipi Company at the Tennessee
mine. and from what he saw there he believed
the same ledge broke not far away and was re-
newed again further over to the northwest.
1t was only theory and his friend laughed at
the idea. There we're no oGtcroppinGs OF rock
to prove il. But Desmond removed his in ves-
tiSatlon and spent day or two looking over
the bleak hills. He was surer than ever that
he was right and he located tho California mine
and filed his claim. The next day he went
back to work ut Needles.
At home and in his shop he thought more
and moro OF the possibility Of finding ore
equal to that from the Tennessee and the Elk
hart. physician in Needles had enough con
idence in Desmond's judgment to put $500 in
the prospect and buy half interest. So Des-
mond went back to Chloride and began the
work OF opening his prospect. The mine
yielded pay ore from depth OF seven feet be-
low the surface. and up to date it has made
enough money to pay for S22. 900 stamp mill
that has been built there. and the vein has 3
yet scarcely been scratched. Mr.. Desmond
, and his partner have declined several offers OF
100000 In the past month for their property
NO one can ever tell in ts carly days how biz
and how rich mining camp will become -
said Henry Blackwell. n victorian mining op.
orator. who has come from Cripple Creek &c
two investments there already. If l had had
fair faith in the lodges uncovered Al Cripple
Creek in 1891. would have owned tho SO J..
600 900 Independence mine there. which was
offered me then for $1,000. Whoever believed
twenty years ago that the caTbonates at Lead
vile would make that camp the wonderful
mining town it isi 1 do believe however
| that Chloride is goisR to lie the best silver and
lead camp in the Southwest. aud that
| it will 30 a town OF 5000 poopls in less
than six months more. 1t may 60 higher
have never been In region more
strongly mineralized than the mountains
and hills are about this Sacramento Valley
| The veins arc unusually distinct along he hill
sides, and NAV be from the Elkhart for fou1
miles past the Berry mine. for which tn" ownel
| has now a standing offer OF 100000. All OF VI
| miners who have come down from the nortt
| to ace this desert base ore mining propOstion @
| Chloride. wonder how such apparent ndica
| tons OF unusually rich ore. aud so much OF 1t
| could have been neglected by prospectors FOL
| so MANY years. 1t does seem a shame that
| whDe thousands Of the miners have been risk
| ing life and enduring hardshlps in other dig
| gIngs. these lodges have been lying here
| among those scolchcd mountains only wait
| In. for some people to come along and claim
| them The matter Of water. with which
! to operate tho orushers and stamps in the L
Dorado. is highly important but the working,
| at the Elkhart and the Tennessee show TIM
| water can he developed as the mines GO dowr
| into the earth. | believe that am safe In say
| Ing that tho ore In the EIkhart. Tenressco
| Berry Merrimac and Diana mines at Chlorid,
averages Al ounces OF silver. 81 in gold ant
% per cent. OF lead to tho ton. go far the Nor
rmac il the richest ore rroducer in the camp
| II is owned by Philadelphia. who l:eAps HI,
mouth shut and will not let any of his work
| men speak about the property; but there /,
reason to believe that several carloads OF orc
near the surface OF the earth have recently hat
| returns from the FL Paso smelter OF sums
| ranging from ST. $50 to s.. BOO"
MEY AND SEA SERPENT PIGHT.