Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-28
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ter II. p. Ware at COTS is the recor-
der. The Gold Cone Mining and Mill
ing company. organized recently in Los
Angeles, has taken over a group of gold
claims about nine miles northeast Of
Goffs, and the outcroppings, being in
shape Of a high cone, is the cause Of
the name given the company. The Cone
and the twin buttes, in close proximity,
can easily be seen for fifteen to twenty
FIVE miles, and these minerai-bearing
quartz lodges are fifty to ninety feet in
width and carry gold values all
through. Assays indicate a A to s6
value in a greater portion Of the iron
quartz with copper stains. The officers
of the company are: Barton Darling
ton, president; N. l.. Hittle, secretary
and treasurer, and ]. Banta, manager,
ell of Los Angeles. Development is to
go on at once.
The Searchllght District
Charles f. Dupuy, superintendent of
the Old Roman Mining company's
property, located in the Newbury
mountains, twenty-five miles south of
Searchlight, New, is in the city, and
states that the lower tunnel has reached
a distance in of 300 feet, giving a depth
on the incline of the ledge Of 300 feet
below the surface. At the breast of the
tunnel the width of the quartz ore is
two and half feet, with values from
$50 to 5000 in gold and silver to the ton.
Decision is pending with the manage
ment during investigation as to the
best kind of reduction plant to place
upon the property.
Tonopah and GoIdfleId
The story of the development of the
new mining camps in Central Nevada,
as related by United States Senator
Nixon, says an exchange, reads like
romance, although collateral evil
dence is abundant that it is all real
ity. Young as the towns of Tonopah
and Goldfeld are they are assuming
the proportions and conditions of long
established communities, the erection
of substantial buildings of masonry
furnishing proof of the faith of the
people in their permanency, and the
richness and perpetuity of the pro-
ductive mining properties which have
brought them into being and on which
they are dependent. Other mining
districts have also been developed
which give promise of yielding large
mineral returns in future. The de-
velopments in the two chief camps of
the central part of the state are stinau-
lating search for mineral deposits in
other sections which have hitherto
been neglected by the mining pros
pector.
The state of Nevada is indeed grow
ing out of that condition which has
prompted eastern critics in particular
to revile 1t in the past as pocket
borough politically, owing to the linn
tied number of it's inhabitants, and as
a sagebrush waste because of it's COM
parative inferiority agriculturally to
some other states. But the mineral
discoveries in Nevada are breaking
down the eastern sneer rapidly as to
its political status, and the compile
tion of the federal government land
reclamation scheme will help to lift
it to higher plane agriculturally A
few more discoveries like those of
Tonopah and Goldfield, which have Gre
ated communities with populations
ranging between 5000 and 7OO0 will give
a new turn to statistics in Nevada, and
there is no good reason to doubt but
what they will be made in good season.
Nevada's mineralized territory has been
barely scratched, except in spots, and
yet it Is being recognized now by the
world as one of the richest known min
ing fields awaiting exploitation
Copper Production
Statistics recently compiled by min
ing men in Arizona indicate that the
territory is now producing approxi-
mately 21.OOO,00O pounds of copper per
month, as compared with about 20, 900, :
COO pounds for Montana and $4,000, 900
for Michigan. These figures include all
the we'll established copper mining dis
tricts of Arizona and make liberal al
lowances also for an increased produc-
ton by the Butte properties and the
Lake district mines.
Producing Mines
The Beatty Miner gives list of pro-
ducing claims as evidence of value.
calling attention to results as follows:
Streaks of $500 ore, occurring in a
ledge from three to seventeen feet wide
and cropping for 5000 feet, are found on
the property of the California Bullfrog,
four miles east of Keane Springs.
The Lee and Findley property in the
Funeral range lies about twenty-five
miles from Beatty. They get some
good values in stringers as high as
$5OOO with surface assays of So to $40 on
the main leads.
Returns from the latest assays made
on the Sunset, five miles northeast from
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