Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-17
Capital of Los Angeles
Seeking New Fields
MILLS ARE DROPPING
ON MUCH RICH ROCK
Local Investors Branching Out
and Taking Advan re
of Opportunities

Los Angeles investors in available
mining properties have again invaded
Shasta county and by purchase have
acquired the Silver King, Rattlesnake
and Rather mines, and also the Mont
gomery mines on Montgomery noun
tain. The deal was completed in Red
ding, and ]. L. Montgomery, the for
mer owner, is many thousand dollars
richer. The trustees acting for the
syndicate are ]. A. Ewing, Force Par
ker and w. r. Armstrong, all well
known in Los Angeles. A, G. Barker,
former superintendent and the metal
lurgist of the LIE Roi Mining COM
pany, at Northport, Wash, and
an extensive mine owner, will be
the manager The Montgomery mines
are spoken of as being among the rich
mines of Shasta county, as Bird and
Montgomery, while working alone, took
from the property ores that yielded
$4,000 after treatment. 1t is understood
that the new owners will open their
mines at once and develop to the fullest
extent and erect the proper mills to
reduce the ores without shipping.
Opening Mexican Mines
More local capital has gone from Los
Angeles into another property known
as the Los Angeles, about sixty miles
northwest of Guadalupe in the ex-
treme northeastern part of Chihuahua,
Mexico. The reports of the operations
aau tha 10-ctoY1o0 ~ mill ic runpi,ur dow
and night and that the ore runs from
200 to 300 ounces silver and $11 gold
per ton.
Last Chance Country
In the Last Chance country a lot
OF development work is being prose-
cuted, says the Auburn (Cal) Herald.
A number of Los Angeles men have in
vested heavily in Last Chance gravel
ground, and are now prosecuting de-
velopment work on a big scale. Last
Chance is entirely devoted to gravel
and deep drift mining, while in the
Bald mountain country it is practically
all quartz.
The same may be said of Bald noun
tain. There are a number of good
quartz propositions in that rich but
hard-to-get-at mining section of the
country which are being opened and
which are attracting outside capital.
Bald mountain is eighteen miles above
Westville, but while long distance
from the railroad, is far from being in
accessible But no matter how rough
or inaccessible a place may be, If gold
Is there, it will speedily be gotten out.
The paper also says that some splen-
did looking gravel has been struck in
the Ticket for Home gravel mine by
the present owners, Los Angeles capit-
alists, who have been doing prospecting
work for some time. This mine is To-
Gated on the Last Chance ridge, and
has been located and abandoned by
various parties time and again for the
past forty years.
Fortune Came Rapidly
Two million dollars, poked under the
nose of the Western Exploration COM
pany, has finally induced 1t to part with
the Balaklala group of mines in Shasta
county, CAL, and as soon as it is pos
sible to conSummate the transfer that
vast estate will have passed under the
control Of a syndicate headed by its
representative in the huge transaction,
Clarence K. Mccormick of Salt Lake
City. In possession of the copper-bear-
ing domain, over the acquisition Of
which there has been the keenest riv
airy for more than a year, the pur-
chasing syndicate will begin it's elabor-
ate equipment, the active production of
copper bullion, associated with not y
few units in gold and silver. Mean
while. developments underground will
continue as they have since the West
ern Exploration began work. The ac-
QUESTION and development of the Bala-
klala group of mines affords a lesson.
-Four years ago the field representa-
tives of the Western Exploration COM
pany had their attention drawn to the
group embracing seventy-four locations
and stretching for three miles along
the crest of the monster zone Recent
ly examination was made. the conclus-
ions revealing that from an obscure
pIObpcCI IL 1letQ IlbcH lO d III
the workings of which there is now
exposed copper, gold and silver-bear-
ing ores of a gross value of SIG, 900, 900.
Into the tremendous zone one tunnel
after another was driven until at this
time no less than seven miles of min
eral-bearing earth has been under
mined.
Local Stockholders Interested
Information has reached Los Angeles
stockholders of the Enterprise Mining
and Milling company that is operating
an excellent group of claims near King
man. Mohave county Arizona, that
new and rich ore bodies have been op-
ened on the lower level that are found
below the water belt. Regarding this
work at the property Major w. A.
Mensch, the general manager. has re-
ported that he is installing an extens-
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