Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-10

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clean out the tunnels, brighten their
face and announce to the world that he
had mine. Copper mines were in de-
mand then. He soon had customers.
Among them was Hartwig Cohen, rep
resenting Capt. j. r. De La Mar, who
had made a fortune mining In Idaho
and Nevada and had given his repre-
sentative carte blanche to purchase the
best mine to be found. That was about
six years ago. Two years later the
smelter was ready to "blow in" A
railroad has been built from mine to
smelter. A large tract of land had been
cleared. wood. logging, bridge and coke
contracts made and the thousand and
one things attended to to get every
thing in readiness. Smoke first issued
from the stacks in May. 1901. For the
first two years Austin II. Brown was
the superintendent and the present
superintendent filled a minor position.
The Bully Hill mine has been a con-
tinuous dividend payer from the start,
and although production has run from
100 to 240 tons per day, its greatest
period of production is yet to come.
The cost of mine, smelter and neces-
sary adjuncts was not less than half a
million dollars. There Is good author
ity for the statement that the first
years run paid all the costs and made
a million dollars for it's owners besides.
More Gold Found
Gold in paying quantities, it is re-
ported, has been discovered on the
Murphy Colombet ranch, fifteen miles
south of San Jose. Confronted with
facts Mr.. Colombet has admitted that
prospecting" has been going on and
has acknowledged that 175-foot shaft
had been tunneled into the hill on his
property and that a rich gold-bearing
ledge has been struck by the miners
engaged in the work. Samples of the
ore obtained are now in the assayer's
office. For years past traces Of rich
ore have been found in the foothills
around the Murphy ranch. A valuable
lump of the precious metal was dis
covered by Peter Colombet in 1897 and
created quite q stir at that time. Ever
since the day on which that find was
made, until a few months ago, when
more outcroppings were discovered in
the foothills, the Colombet family have
dreamed of boarded wealth and great
bonanzas, and now their dreams seem
in fair way to be fulfilled.
White Tanks Strike
In Prescott John Bradford and F. H.
Volz, jr., have been informed that on
their claims in the White Tank coun-
try of Yavapai county rich strikes
have been made. Assays on these
properties show respectively $2067 and
$1720 in free gold to the ton. "There
have been a great many assays of
from several hundred dollars up to
$1,000 made on White Tank gold Ores"
says Mr.. Bradford, "but these assays
are the record breakers for the camp
and again proves to those who have
said that they have seen everything
that there is in the White Tanks
mountains that they are again very
much deceived.
Good News Bunched
Three carloads of machinery for the
new 150-ton smelling plant to be in
stalled near Dudleyville, Pinal county,
Arizona, by the Saddle Mountain Min
ing company, to treat the copper ores
from the San Carlos group, will be
forwarded to Winkleman as soon as
the Phoenix and Eastern line can be
reopened for traffic.
A veritable mountain of mineral, S5
per cent of which is alum, has been
found in the Ingalls, mining district Of
Nevada.
The general superintendent of the
Julian (San Diego Consolidated Min
ing company says a large body of re-
fractory ore which will run from
5000 to $4O0 per ton has been struck in
it's properties. The ledge ranges from
three to five feet in width.
William A. Feheley is working
lode claim near the Briggs claim on
Sucker creek, on the Oregon California
boundary that promises to be a rich
find. He has pay chute $50 feet long
with gold all through the ore. The
gold is fine and out of $500 realized
from crushing by hand no piece was
large nough to weight ten cents.
Zinc ore is now being shipped by rail
from Monterey. Mexico, to the United
States instead of being sent to England
by water. The treatment plants in
Kansas have been purchasing for years
in the San Juan and Leadvlle dis
tricts.
1t is reported that experts have pro-
nounced the Dairy Farm mine, near
Lincoln, Cal, one of the best bodies
of copper ore in the state, and the
Rockefellers are said to be interested.
This mine has an almost inexhaustible
supply of sulphurets suitable for the
making of sulphuric acid.
The sampling rooms of the After
thought smelter are at present equipped
to handle from $50 to 200 tons of ore