Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-03
CHEMIST FINDS RICHES
IN DISCARDED ORES


eye saw what the others did not--a
quartz ledge cropping. They quietly
threw up their Jobs and decided to
prospect the ledge. Finding favorable
results they traced It a mile west Of
the railroad and located claim. A
shallow shaft was sunk to thirty feet,
at which depth the ledge seemed to
pinch out Baudouin became dis
couraged and was prevailed on by
Radcliffe to try It a few days longer.
Within a week the ledge enlarged
again and took on promising look.
Baudouin, however, tired Of the life
and decided to return to California.
An agreement. was made whereby Rad
cliffe remained to do the necessary as
sessment work and develop the claim
as much as possible during the winter,
Baudouin providing the necessary
grub" That was in September, 1901.
Since then Radcliffe worked the claim
off and on, convinced that it was a
good property. A month age mining
experts came, heard of his location and
were so pleased they made an offer of
$4,000 for the property. Realizing that
1t would require many thousands to
put the mine on paying basis, being
so far from business centers, Radcliffe
decided to sell.
Fortune for Mine
One of the biggest sales of mining
property ever consumnnated in Nevada
was made in Goldfleld last week, when
L. Bleaklnore, j. S. Cook and w. II.
Lang, with eastern capitalists whose
shone property of Robert Montgomery
at Bullfrog for SSOO00O. This group is
the richest in Southern Nevada. Forty
assays taken at random averaged $1,000
each. A close corporation will exploit
the mines.
Great activity is manifested at Ka-
wich and in the immediate vicinity,
and new strikes of ore are daily re-
ported that run from $50 to $4,000 per
ton, says the Caliente Express.
Mike Kearns and James Guttry have
made a very important strike on their
group of four claims on the north
slope of Quartzite mountain and about
one mile south of the original discov-
cry. The ledge outcrops over a mile
and is fully fifteen feet wide in many
places The character of the ore is
identical with that found on the Gold
reed company's property. Good as
says are obtained at many points along
the ledge. They are also getting good
results from another group of three
claims, situated about one mile north
of discovery By crushing the ore and
panning they are enabled to get num-
Der of colors of free gold.
An important strike Is reported at
point about twelve miles north of
from $50 to $1OO per ton in free gold
has been uncovered. The extent of i'm
portance of this strike is unknown at
the present time. Several men are. now
actively at work sinking on the ore
chute and undoubtedly within the next
few days there will be big rush into
the district.
Several companies are making ar
rangements to bring in their supplies
from Caliente by way of Pahranagat
valley, and are actively making prep
arations for extensive developments.
News has been received from Kawich
that rich strike was made on one of
the leases on the western end of the
Goldreed company's property and it is
reported that the values are of high
grade shipping quality.
The entire country surrounding Ka-
wich is a highly mineralized zone and
strikes of more or less value are daily
received.
Big Gold Yield
The Central Eureka, near Jackson,
Cal, produced in January of this year
1900 tons of ore valued at 29,2O0 The
ore averaged So to $S ton. According
to official reports, the main chute has
been sunk on an incline to a depth of
1880 feet, all in ore. A ten years con-
tract has been let for electrical power
to run the forty-stamp mill and rock
breaker, and a little later it Is ex-
pected to operate the hoist by the same
power.
The tunnel now being run from the
Lincoln shaft of the Wildman mine to
the Mahoney mine is in about $50 feet.
No crosscutting has been done so far.
but extensive work of this character
will be done in the near future. The
ore chute at the 1400-foot level in the
Wildman is said to be large and of good
value. Scarcity of timbers prevents
more extensive work being done.
The forty stamps are dropping at the
Zeila mine and the force of miners is
being materially increased. Two new
levels are being opened-one at the 1850
and the other at the 155O-foot level. At
the first named level the ore body has
been reached and prosecuting is In
progress. No ore is being sent to the
mill from this point.
49, Working Old Dumps
At the Mt. Gains mine, owned by Los