Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-22
Properties Purchased for
Development in Prom
ising Camps
MORE PRODUCERS
ARE EXPECTED
Fresh News of Great Strikes in
Goldfield-ArizOna Pros
pectors Are Busy

A correspondent of The Herald writes
as follows regarding Beatty, New:
Well, of all the camps around think
Beatty Is the best, cleanest and has
better mines. The Lige Harris mine
has Just made big strike. The men
have opened q ledge that assays $1,000
to the ton. 1t is about two miles east
of Beatty. In the Shoshone mine. the
richest mine the world has ever known,
is tunnel in eighty feet and
the ore assays $500 to the ton. Mr..
Montgomery the owner, a man worth
between $5,0OOOOO and $10,000000 is
building a hotel; also an Office building.
"I have bought some property here.
All the. freight has to be hauled from
Las Vegas, a distance of 100 miles. The
railroad people will start to build here
in about thirty days"
x-Ray Group Sold
During last week the sale of the in
terest of S. j. Spare and G.. G. Law
renee in the X-Ray group of claims at
Searchlight was completed and w. c.
Price secures an interest in the Pom
peii Mining company. He has exam
ined the property, and as he is an ex-
pert mining man he will take personal
charge of the property and cause 1t to
become another producer in the Search
light district.
Higgins Examines Mines
Thomas Higgins of Los Angeles is in
Bisbee, Ariz., to confer with stock
holders Of the Higgins Development
company. Higgins has passed several
days looking over the ground of the
company. 1t is known that recently
prominent Michigan mining men have
signifled a willingness to get behind the
Higgins Development and put up suffi-
cient money to continue the exploration
work. Should their advances be ac-
cepted plans include the placing of Mr..
Higgins at the head of the company.
MI. Higgins will be in Bisbee for sew
eral days. Before he leaves there will
be a final conference, at which definite
conclusion will be reached. A gentle
man familiar with the present situa-
ton, but not speaking authoritativey,
has said. that in his opinion the nego-
tiaticns pending would not be attended
with success
Great Empire Ore
Judge w. II. Fuller and Secretary
Dexter of the Empire Mining company
joI, ic I,yT
holders, has been informed that in an
old abandoned shaft half way up the
mountain side on the group at Search
light from which years ago Johnny
Flynn, the original locater of the prop
erty, extracted much of the rich ore
which he run through his crude arastra
there is a monster cropping, and in the
center of this E. B. Scott had single
shot fired recently. This shot broke
and loosened many tons of ore. That
is, free gold showing in almost every
piece, and all of it horning long yellow
strings. 1t is estimated that the shot
broke sufficient ore for a creditable mill
run. Further UP the mountain side the
winze shaft in the main tunnel is down
is mostly of sulphide nature. Nu-
merous samples have been taken dur
ing the progress of the work which
have assayed from $40 to $1,000 ton.
The general average of the ore is high
grade.
Son ira Mines Bought
In Los Angeles the details have been
i 0f 4,
Mexican state of Sonora inaugurated
by E. H. Hartman and his associates
in the Southern Pacific and Col. w. C.
Green, the copper magnate. Epes Ran
dolph, representing the Southern Pa
cif1c magnate, has taken over the largo
holdings of F. A. Hartmann and La
Dura Mining company of this city in
Sonora. The deal is the largest of it's
kind carried to completion here in
some time. The price paid is said upon
good authority to have been in the
neighborhood of $1,00O0 900. The prop
critics purchased are La Dura groups
of mines at La Dura, near the head
of the Yaqui river, one of the richest
properties in one of the richest min
ing sections in the world, and undeveI-
oped coal fields at Pilares.
The deal was negotiated by Rich
ardson brothers of this city who own
big interests In the country to be trans
versed by the railroad, which will be
built from the Arizona line southwark
through the great mining region of
Sierra Madre in Sonora and down the
Yaqui river valley to Guaymas 10
unite with an extension. which is to
run from that point south through
Sinaloa TO Guadalajara.
Desert Mines Popular
In an interesting article about the
mines on the desert the Riverside
Enterprise says that since the compile
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