Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-27
MORE PLACER GOLD
Is NEAR LOS ANGELES

shaft is said to average s22 across an
eight-foot vein. Nowhere on the
veins can person go and fail to get
values in gold. The mines are easy
Of access and water in abundance can
be had within a mile or two of the
property.-Kingman Miner
The Tombstone Prospector says that
up to the present time the United
Verde has paid total Of S16,s60, ,322 in
dividends.
During the month Of January there
we're filed with the county recorder
ninety-one mining location notices,
which go to show that there is still
good vacant mining ground in Cochise
county. The notices show that claims
are being taken up in all parts of the
county from the Chlricahuas to the
Huachucas and from the Whetstones
to the Swishelms.
Ore shipments from the Tombstone
district are on the increase. Yester-
day three cars were sent out and two
more followed today. The Lucksure
IiOW ydNtIdBGB lOuI CdlS pei WOChs WiiiiV
the big shaft of the Tombstone Con-
solidated company contributes about
five. Two cars have been sent from
the Silver Thread so far this week and
others are being loaded daily.
The Phelps-Dodge copper properties
iii Arizona, the Copper Queen, Detroit
Copper and Montezuma copper prop
critics in Sonora, yielded an aggregate
of S1,41S,234 pounds for the year 1904.
This output was in the form of blister
copper. which averages about SO per
cent fine.
Developing Mabel Mertz
The miners OF Sierra county bid fair
to come more strongly to the front
during the coming season than for
many years. Such are the authentic
reports that come down from those
parts of the country where mining
operations are carried on, says the
Nevada City Transcript AT
Forest City the Mabel Mertz mine is
to be fully developed. The company
owning the property has 5000 feet
of channel, supposed to be the con-
tinuation of an old lead. Work was
carried on at the placer mines at
Goodyear Bar as long as the weather
would permit and until the deep snow
came. Pumping machinery has been
put in place to take the superfiuous
water from the Dolly Warden prop
erty, one of the oldest in the county.
The miners all report good hopes for
the immediate future, which develop
ments would seem to warrant. AS
usual there are problems to be
solved by the miners in their own
way. In an ancient river bed, for in
stance, it has been determined where
a tunnel has been run that the chan
mel is abnormally WIDE and although
several rich spots have been found
in which nuggets worth from $50 to
800 each have been discovered, drifts
must be run to find the richest
portion.
A rich strike was recently made at
the Big Bowlder drift mine in Secret
ravine, near Colfax. The mine Is
owned and operated by w. H. Wales,
n. ]. Pearson and N. 7. Collins, all OF
Colfax.
A two-ounce piece of gold was found
a few days ago by a pocket hunter on
a ranch somewhere between Rackerby
and Forbestown, in one of the gulches
crossed by the stage road. The parties
declined to give their names for publi-
cation, but the nugget exhibited and
the particulars given are proof of the
find. Pocket hunting is in full blast
in the foothills in the headwaters Of
the Honcut and along the line of Butte
and Yuba counties. Lately some con-
siderable gold dust has been brought
into Rackerby for trade, the yellow
precious metal being the reward of
the industry of the pocket hunters
Oroville Register.
Fortune From Lease
A good cleanup was made the other
day by ]. H. Linehan and the Evans
boys, leasers of the American mine at
French gulch. Out of forty-four tons
of ore they got $342O. Jack Cannon,
another leaser, extracted considerable
S30 rock during MS last Seoooii . WI NJ
The American mine is expected to de-
velop into one of the best properties
in the district as the result of the ex-
ploration work now being prosecuted
by the American Mining company A
12O0-foot drift is being driven under
contract to intersect the main ledge,
and 300-foot raise will then be made.
One vein has already been cut. and at
the same time a heavy volume of water
was encountered, estimated at 200
inches, which caused all work in the
drift to be temporarily suspended
Redding Searchlight.
A rich strike has been made, almost
by accident. it might be said, in the
Gladstone mine near French gulch.
The management had men drifting to
catch the chute. The drift was follow
ing along the side of the ledge without
cutting it, when a blast cut into the
ledpe Some remarka blV rich rock