Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-13
MORE ANGELENO CASH
GOES INTO MINING

other excitement in mining, and this
will be in the southern portion of Inyo
county, thirty-five miles east of Keeer,
in the section known as Gold Belt.
Every report coming from this district
is favorable and sufficient capital is
going in thoroughly to open 1t. The
lodges average about four feet and
carry high-grade free-milling gold
ore. Not far away are the Saline cop
rer deposits, which make the greatest
surface copper showings known any
where in the east. a company is put
ting in machinery and prospecting
copper proposition at Old Coso. This
is the first development work in the
section, although copper has been
known to exist there for over thirty
years. Times are getting lively at
Darwin, big stir at Lone Pine and
about a dozen Colorado men are maxi
ing a thorough examination of the
Alabama district.
The Placerville California; Nugget
says: "The River Consolidated Mining
company organized few years ago in
Placerville, has a proposition under
way which may result in the working
out of considerable stretch of the
American River a short distance from
this city The company has string
of claims 5000 feet, or nearly two miles,
located on the American river. The
river has been found to be rich in gold
where it has been possible to work
them out The rocky river bed is not
suitable for working a dredger and so
the electric company takes 5000 inches
of water from the river at Rock creek
and in the dry months the water going
over the spillway averages 1000 inches.
BY building a fume to handle this
water and furnish power the entire
stretch of river bed could be cleaned
up"
Billy Mack Bonded
Ben Blanchard of the Iron King Min
ing property at Blanchard, Arizona, has
bonded the famous BILLY Mack" group
of mines in the northern portion of
Yuma county, Arizona, near the point
of crossing the Colorado river by the
Arizona & California railroad, now
building. He has carload of selected
ore ready for shipment which will aver
age 81 to the ton in gold.
The great Planet mine in western
Arizona is now being developed under
direction of Colonel Jones of Colorado
Springs. For distance of 600 feet
along the mammoth ledge is a heavy
Gaping of iron carrying a good per-
centage of copper. When the Arizona
& California railroad is completed to
the river, Jones intends building a
branch line distance of twelve miles
to connect. Grading on the A. & C.
railroad is being rapidly pushed and
tracklaying already completed dis
tance of fifteen miles west from point
near Congress Junction on the Santa
Fe, Prescott e. Phoenix railroad. Of
ficials expect the line to be completed
to the Colorado river by June 1, 1905.
Rich Copper Section
In speaking of the Chiricahuas sec
tional says that the ore rich is copper
was known many years ago. In 1854
a survey was made through this coun-
try for a trans-continental road Jeff
Davis being secretary of war at the
time. The chief engineer of the party
~, I,a a. I~tr
he found the Chiricahuas richly min
eralized country and described the in
dications of great copper deposits. The
report went into details and gave the
locations of some of these ore bodies. |
After fifty years the Chiricahuas are
proving to be a richly mineralized
range and the facts stated in the engi-
neer's report are proving to be the
truth just as he wrote them, for it is
now conceded by well posted mining
men that the Chiricahuas are among
the highest mineralized sections of the
copper telt.
Big Sale Completed
1t is announced on good authority |
that the final payment on a group of |
well-known gold properties in the Pl-
cacho district was made Monday by
r. K. Clancy of Detroit, Mich, vesting |
in him the complete ownership and |
control.
Negotiations for the transfer of the !
have been pending for some |
time Mr.. Clancy being represented by |
u law firm, Richardson & Lockwood Of |
Douglas.
over seventy pertenecias, embracing |
five mines, are covered by the pur-
chase known as the Serro Finobela, |
Eva, Eel Eden and Cinco Senores. They |
are located about fifty-one miles from
Cananea and five miles southwest of |
the Picacho mine. A number of eX-
perts who have examined them pro-
nounce them, on the present indica-
tions, fully equal to that famous prop
erty.
Cactus Flat Mines
Replying to an inquiry "a gentleman
Interested i'm Southern Inyo writes: