Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-13
NEW TONOPAH
OVER IN ARIZONA
RUSH IS ON TO BIG WILLIAMS
FORK DISTRICT
Close OF Heavy Mining Deal In the
Desert Near San Bernardlno-Guq-
genhelmers in It-GeneraI
Mining News

This statement appears in a recent Is
sue of the Phonelx (Ariz.) Enterprise:
ut is the opinion of Redmond Toohey,
well known contractor, that in the Car
rigan strike on Big Williams Fork, an
other Tonopah has been found, and
that within the next few months that
famous district in Nevada will have
to take second place to the new El
Dorado.
Toohey says that he has talked with
a number of miners and prospectors
who have been at both Tonopah and
the new strike, and they all inform
him that the indications for a rich
district are even greater than those
around Tonopah.
"Toohey believes that within the next
week there will be dozens and dozens
of parties rushing into the new find
to get in on the ground floor and take
advantage of any mining boom that
may follow.
"a sample of the ore from the new
strike, which Toohey brought to the
city with him shows large amount
of free gold in a small piece of rock.
lie says that the Calara company owns
tWenty-four claims and on eight of
them has found the same character
of ore"
Big Mining Deal
The San Bernardino Times-Index
is authority for the story that
one of the biggest mining deals the
desert has known for years has been
consummated and valuable claims
winch have heretofore been lying only
partially developed will now be made
to yield their countless treasure.
They are the claims in the Ord dis
trict, which have for years been owned
by III. l.. Drew, now deceased, and J.
b. osborne. The claims have now
passed into the control of the famous
Guggenheimers who have been figuring
on the proposition for several years.
The purchase price is 100000 The sum
the bargain and the remaining $3.50, 900
is to be paid within ninety days.
Located Years Ago
The twenty claims were located at
various times years ago, and finally
We're grouped and purchased by II. L.
Drew and j. B. Osborne The prop
erty is located on the western slope
OF Ord mountain, 144 miles in a south
ertly direction from the town of Dag
gett. The four distinct groups contain
the following claims of copper ano
gold ore: The Rio Vista, Plainsville.
Bluft, Central, Coupon, Last Chance.
Josephine, Modesto, Sunhower, Aztec,
Brilliant, Keystone, Climax, Concep-
tlon' Tehachapi, Atlantic, Sunset, Wild
west. Empress and Cliff.
All these mines have been more or
less developed and the following eight
nave been patented: Rio Vista, Central,
coupon, Last Chance, josephine. Te-
hachapi, Modesto and Brilliant.
From Daggett to Ord there is a
wagon road of excellent construction
and easy grade railroad has often
been contemplated to connect the
mines with the Santa Fe at Dapeett eff
and now that unbounded capital has
secured the mines. it is very likely
that a railroad will be one of the first
improvements. 1t is estimated that
a road can be built and equipped
for 100000.
The mines have been carefully ex-
amlned by some of the best mining
men In the country. AS the result
or numerous tests and estimates it is
figured that these mines properly
equipped will yield the owners a clear
profit Of 1858 per day without railroad
connection to Daggett and S1034 pel
cay II a connecting railroad is built.
The Guggenheimers buy property to
develop and there is little doubt that
the west slope of Ord mountain will
soon be bustling with activity and Ord
L
est mining camps of the country
Ore on the Dumps
The Tonopah Sun reports that n Salt
Lake mining and smelling company is
negotiating for the purchase of the
Eureka Consolidated and the Richmond
mines to secure their ores for fluxing
in the treatment of the ores of Tononab
and Goldield. There are said to be
from 100000 to 100000 tons of low-grade
1uXing ore on the dumps of these two
mines.
Owing to the fact that practically all
of the ores shipped from Nevada are
silicious the smelters must reduce
them with fluXing ores containing GER
tain amounts of lead, copper and iron.
So great have been the shipments from
Nevada that enough base ore carrying
these tluXing ingredients cannot be OBJ
tafned and the result is that millions
of dollars worth Of 'Tonopah and Gold
field ores is piling on the hands of the
smelters. One plant alone in Utah has
over $2,000,000 worth of Tonopah ore on
hand and to save itself it has been COM
PEELED to join with the others in placing
an embargo upon shipment.
Big Strike at GoIdfield
Kendall, famous for its former pro-
duction of fabulously rich ore comes to
the front with the biggest strike re-
corded in the Goldfeld district for many
years. In fact, those who have eX-
amined the rich finds just uncovered in
the Kendall declare that they give evil
dences of being the greatest of the
camps history -Four feet of ore aver
aging at the least calculation $500
to the ton, it is stated, has been en-
countered on the thirty-foot level. The
rich rock has been uncovered in a cross
fssure which intersects a seventy-foot !
vein of tale. In drift running east
and west about 100 feet south of the
locality of the other big strike the COM
pany has broken into still another fis- |
sure vein running in hard quartz The
vein is twelve inches wide and aver
ages $1,000 to the ton. This ore was
found ON the twenty-foot level. The |
news Of these strikes comes direct from
the management of the Kendall
An Arizona Phenomenon
What is undoubtedly one of the most
unique mining undertakings in the
country Is now under way in North
ern Arizona, with promise of being sue
cessful. The Standard Iron company !
of New York Is sinking a shaft six
miles south Of DiablO station on the