Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-28
Lucky Find Of Mother
Lode by Los Ange-
les Man
VALUABLE HOLDINGS
IN MANY SECTIONS
No Question About Richness Of the
Nevada Mlnes--ore Samples
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states that mining men believe the
mother lode of the searchlight, New,
district has been found The discovery
will give a remarkable impetus to
Searchlight.
Two corporations of large capitaliza-
tlon have been formed to work new
properties along the ledge. Work has
commenced on one Of them and next
month operations will begin on another
ledge.
1t has been suspected for long time
that the general trend Of all known
lodges in the southern end Of the field
from southeast to northwest growing
richer In values as they advanced in
the latter direction, indicated that
somewhere there would be found the
main break or mother lode Of the dis
trict, and IL this is found 1t will mean
millions of added wealth to the district
and hundreds of thousands of dollars
more money to be spent in actual de-
velopment work. All mining engineers
have been aware that there was what
we called a north and south" ledge
down toward the south, but as the
lateral lodges, which all take the gen.
eral north and south direction were
richer in mineral values than this,
nothing material in the way of devel-
opment has ever been done. 1t was
blind lead and there were not the
slightest surface indications to denote
that there was any ledge in the vi
cinity, except on the North Star, where
there were only partial surface crop
pings.
Big Strike at Afterthought
letter received last night by The
Herald from Ingot, Shasta county,
Cal, contains the news that at the
Afterthought mine, owned by the
Great Western Gold company, another
big strike of ore has been made. The
letter says:
1--WE have just cut a fine body of
ore in the big lower working tunnel.
The body Is eleven feet wide where
cut and is widening out one foot in
three as it extends into the mountain"
This proves the .Afterthought to be
one of the best, if not the best, mines
In California. The smelter is running
smoothly and successfully under the
direction of General Superintendent
Bretherton of Los Angeles, and he re-
ports the Afterthough a superior and
valuable mine.
Unbroken Ledge
Recent investigations have proved
that the main break continues in un-
broken line for distance of almost
five miles. The opening of the mother
lode, If such it proves to be, came
about in a most unusual manner. 1t
was a case of lucky strike, by a lucky
man who knew in advance that he
would be lucky because he had al
ways been lucky. He is j. M. Grover,
Los Angeles man. Mr.. Grover told
friend, "locate claim for me; I'm
lucky: it'll be mine as sure as you're
born. Send me the bill and I'll pay
1t and then you will see the mining
people sit around on my fence like
lot of crows around cornfeld. I'm
lucky and can't losel"
A plot of vacant ground was offered
Mr.. Grover. If he wanted to pay simply
for the location work. He took it. At
his suggestion miners were employed
to do his location work and sent to the
claim. The entire face of the desert
was the same. Sand and gravel and
eroded debris covered the surface of the
plain everywhere and there was no in
dication of a ledge there. He had
named the claim the Ascot because he
had tipped negro with two dollars
and won fifty on a horse that everyone
said was dead before it started; but
Growers luck paid out in the end.
Chloride Cliff Property
Another big strike, according to the
Bullfrog Miner. has been made at
Chloride Cliff in the Funeral range. ].
p. Garnett tells the story as follows:
1.-THE strike was made on the De Bath
and Johnabe claims, which We're To-
Gated by j. P. Garnett, Tom Jones and
Baxter on June 20, 1904. A sale of the
property has just been concluded to ].
Irving Crowell of Los Angeles. The
Bullfrog-Cliff Mining company has been
Incorporated and work will be COM
rnenced by the company at once. The
ledge shows up for 1900 feet in length
and six or seven feet wide on the sur
face and the values run from $50 to as
high as $500. Thirty dollars is the
poorest assay seen by Mr.. Garnett. A.
tunnel has already been run, drifting
on the vein. for forty feet and ore now
on the dump viii much more than pay
for all the work done.
The officers Of the new company are
], Irving Crowell, president; j.. S..
Leonard. vice president, and S. C. Free
field, secretary and treasurer.
Signal Mining District
The Signal is new mining district
organized out of portions OF San Ber-