Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-22
GREAT ACTIVITY NOTED
IN SCORES OF MINES

as one possessing large bodies of fine
gold and copper ore, these not, however
having been of sufficiently high grade
to pay for the long haul necessary
before the building Of the Salt Lake
railroad. A number of companies took
UP claims and developed them in a
small way so as to show their worth
and. while keeping quiet about a num-
Der of rich strikes, secured additional
properties until now, that the railroad
is finished and the iron horse skirts
the base of the mountain range giving
ready and easy outlet for ore, they
have the geater part Of the best mineral
land taken up. Although the extension
of the Santa Fe from Marvel to Ivan
pah gave an impetus to development
and attracted attention to the district,
it is only now that its worth Is begin
ning'to be fully realized. t.
Among the several Los Angeles com.
panies in the district is the Desert
Mining and Reduction company which
recently struck ledge Of seventy feet,
select samples from which assay thou
sands of dollars to the ton. Average
assays go 500 gold and 72O pounds of
copper to the ton. The width of the
ledge is phenomenal and assays high
Magnesite Is Found
Another valuable find on this com
panys property is that of large bodies
of mica and magneste, the latter be-
ing found at a depth of forty feet on
property which was being developed
for the former. Magnesite is a rich
find for a mining and smelling COM
pany.
AS a result of recent strikes there is
considerable talk of the erection of
mills, smelters and other improvements
in the near future. The district is so
situated that its trade Of all kinds is
practically certain to come to Los An
geles. and it's development is another
evidence of the fact that in Southern
California there is one of the world s
mineral belts that Is bound to contri-
butte millions to the city's wealth. Ore
can be readily shipped to the smelter,
which is soon to reopen at Needles, at
81 ton. There is also an abundance
Of water and timber in the mountains
Development in Orange
A ten-mule team has left Bakersfield
for the Silverado mining district, twen-
ty miles east of Orange. The mules will
be used for hauling ore from the old
Dunlap mine to Ell Modena or Orange
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the Bourland Mine and Milling COM
pany. The ore is crushed and SAM
pied at the mine, where it is sacked
for hauling to the depot. From eight
to ten men are employed in the develop
ment of the properties. The one aver
yer, and according to reports the mine
is improving with development.
SearchIight Improving
The Parallel Gold Mining company
has placed an order in Los Angeles fol
a fifteen horse power gasoline hoistine
engine and several cars of lumber and
other supplies, to be shipped at once
to Searchlight for installing it in its
mines. A contract for the work has
been let to T. D. Tourney of Los An
geles.
The company has now fifteen claims
in the heart of Searchlight. A survey
is now being made preparatory to OBJ
tanning patent. The main shaft is down
165 feet and sinking is to be resumed
This property, together with the Cyrus
Noble and Santa Fe groups, which ad-
join it, has produced over 100000, all
from development within 200 feet of the
surface.
Development is going on in the Saz-
erac group, owned by Carl Anderson
and A. M. Jones of Los Angeles, and F,
D. Howells jr., of Monrovia. The prop
! erty is located at Dupont. Thirty-two
feet of work has been done on a drift
at the 100-foot level, during which the
vein has widened from one to three feet
The ore greatly resembles that of the
famous Quartette, and is improving
all the time.
The famous Duplex property contin-
ues to hold up it's great record. On
the 300-foot level the high average OF
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being steadily sustained and now in
another part an enormous body of al
tered porphyry twenty feet in width
has been uncovered assaying $47.54 and
$3.50 at four feet from the surface.
viii Start Mill
A new mill will be started within
about two weeks at Juniper camp
twenty miles from Searchlight. At the
Chiquita mine at this point there are
now 600 tons of ore on the dump await
ing the completion of the mill. This
mine has a main shaft down 230 feet
and the main ore shoot has been proved
for 800 feet. The vein is two and one
half feet wide. with free milling ore
averaging $35 ton. A thirty-foot shaft
has also been sunk on what is believed
to be another and distinct ore shoot
Here eight inches of ore has been found
assaying $3.50 ton, and five feet that