Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
Lodges Located on the
Edge of the Great
Death Valley
COPPER ORES ALSO
FOUND IN NEW SPOTS
Stampede Causes Much Suffer
ing to Prospectors Seek
ing Riches

Up In that riproaring yet rich and
now famous gold camp. Goldheld. the
alleged discovery of the Breyfogle
mine that stampeded the prospectors
from Goldfield and from Bullfrog, and
from swallowtail and from other shiv-
ering camps, almost caused a lynching
bee because the so-called discovery has
been dynamited to smithereens by the
Bullfroggers, Swallowtailers and other
tailers who rushed into the desert colin-
try to grab a slice of the hedges from
which gold could be knocked off with
an axe. The alluring tale told by the
lone prospector who evidently mad
drank deep and long, stampeded the
whole Bullfrog camp and men rushed
off by day and night to a point sew
enteen miles southwark, where the
strike was said to be. Many did not
equip themselves properly and some
were in imminent danger of dying from
exposure and when they returned they
! were so wrathy that they talked of
| lynching, but the man who told the
story explained satisfactorily and so
still lives.
However, through this reported dis
covery Inyo county, California, Is
again made famous, as Frank Harris
better known as Shorty" Harris, has
made strike fifty miles south of the
camp with the resonant name that Will
develop into rich property.
More particularly, the new strike is
located twenty-five miles west of Sur
veyors wells in Inyo county, Cali
fornia. The point is reached by going
first to Willow Springs, then to Sur
lveyors wells, and through Cotton
wood canyon to the discovery. The
ground Is apart from Death valley, and
so situated that wood and water can
be had in plenty from the mountains
near by, which are break up of the
Panamint range The Carson & Col
orado railroad is only sixty miles dis
tant.
i Harris says that 'it Is a beautiful
country" The contact Is in lime and
granite, and can be traced for fifteen
miles. There is already a crowd OF
goldseekers going into the new coun-
try and it will not be long before the
entire area will be located.
Harris knows the desert country per-
fectly and was accompanied on his
prospecting trip that turned out SO
successfully by l.. P. McGeary and
f G. Fegot. who are now stalking out
the hest looking ground.
Harris shows some splendid gold ore
from the strike and declares that $3.50
rcck is common where he and his part
ner are stalking claims. Not satisfied
with this, Harris also reports that Sam
Morris and Sam Phail, who are known
in Los Angeles as having traversed the
entire Panamint country in quest of
the yellow metal, have located excellent
copper claims at Cow creek, seven
miles south of Furnace canyon, and
that sixty-four per cent of the ore Is
copper, from ledge 2 IL feet wide.
Rich searchIieht Mines
The entire Searchlight district of
Southern Nevada Is tributory to Los
Angeles, and in that section an i'm
mense amount of Angeleno capital is
invested. C. C. Brown of Los Angeles,
years ago, then a leading mining engi-
neer, prophesied that the Quartzite
mine of Searchlight would prove to be
one of the richest gold mines in the
western half of the United States, and
would later rank among the ten great
gold mines of the world. From indica-
tions that time seems to have arrived
and the prophecy made when the
property was in it's infancy has proven
true. The showing now on the 7OO-foot
level, together with the ground opened
up above, makes the Quartzite not
cnly one of the ten big mines of the
world, but one of the largest known
free-milling propositions. On the first
of the year the stamp mills of that
district, four in number. sixty stamps
in ali, were turning out quarter OF
a million dollars month. This isn't
much but it will do nicely for the four
companies concerned.
1t takes time to open and equip,
a property but give Searchlight twelve
mOnlnB ana the dOONc output VIII
at least be doubled. and more likely
trebIed. This statement is made on
such showings as the Cyrus Noble,
Pompeii, Empire. Ivanough, Old ROM
an, Good Hope, Southern Nevada,
Parallel Dupont, and many others.
Another Bonanza Found
Local mining circles are repeating
the glowing accounts that have come
here concerning a new Viola mine in
Idaho that State Mine Inspector Bell
recently visited and found 1t one of
the great silyer-lead mines of the
country.
There is thirty feet of solid ore that
carries from 80 to 70 per cent lead,
with half ounce of silver for each
unit of lead. there also being small
quantity of gold.
This is all shipping ore. During the
past season the company shipped
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