Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-20
ARIZONA COPPER MINES
WILL CONSOLIDATE

luolumne County views
The Sonora Independent says:
r. b. Stanford Of the Ranch Min
ing company. operating near SPRING
field, Cal, returned Saturday from
New York, where he has been for the
purpose of interesting capital, with the
intention of opening UP the woodside
gravel mine on Table mountain on an
extensive scale. He made very salts
factory arrangements in the east.
M. u. Kelly Is now manager Of the
Jumper mine in place Of M. p. Kerr,
who has resigned.
winslow Hubbard has agreed to sell
to w. E. McCutcheon and d. M. Gar
ner the Eagle Bluff mine, situated FIVE
miles north of Groveland, for $4,000, to
be paid before JulyNl 1905.
Nelson w. Parker has assigned to
the Big Casino Gold Mining company
his option on mining property from
Augustus H. Ward, dated March 21,
1902.
r. D. Nicol has sold to Henry Shaw
half interest in a quartz mine at
sawmill Flat, formerly owned by
George Whine.
Lewis Farr has sold to George c..
Richards of San Francisco, j. c. How
lett, e. A. Langford and r. V. Halton
the New Year and Banner quartz
mines and a water right from Cobb's
creek.
Bully Hill Bond
M. f. Dittmar of Searchlight, Cal,
says that the meaning of the agree
ment recently filed for record in which
the Mount Shasta Gold Mines corpor-
alton secured an option several years
ago to buy the Bully Hill mine for
81, SOC, 900 seemed to be void because of
the failure to make the required pay
ments. Mr.. Dittmar says he heard
in the east that the Mount Shasta peo-
Pile would try to hold De La Mar to
the agreement at this time on the
ground that when De La Mar closed
the mine shortly after the option was
taken, the closedown being occasioned
by fear of labor troubles, he violated
the agreement and made it impossible
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the deal at that time.
Mr.. Dittmar heard that Detroit people
had either secured bond on Bully
Hill or were figuring on securing one.
It is known that the owner of the mine
Is ready, and, indeed, anxious to sell.
Mining at Silverado
Recently a company backed by Los
Angeles and Bakersfield capital leased
the old Dunlop mine in Silverado can
yon and it now has a small force of
men at work cleaning out the old tun-
mel, which is $50 feet into the side Of
the mountain. About 200 tons of ore
are on the dump as the result of work
several years ago, and this is said by
experts to assay from $11 to SIS in
gold and silver, says the Anaheim
Gazette. AT present the only way to
get the ore to where it can be loaded
on wagons is to haul it half a mile and
dump it into a chute 900 feet long. A
considerable quantity of ore, however,
will be sent out at once with a view of
finding out if it can be worked to ad-
vantage. This is the first effort on a
business basis that has been made to
ascertain the value Of the alleged gold
bearing ore in this section since the ex-
element of twenty-five years ago,
when the mountains in that locality
swarmed with prospectors and hun
dreds of claims were staked out
Work on Mines
]. A. Mcdonald of Pasadena Is do
ing considerable work on sixteen
claims which he owns in the Iron
Spring district in San Diego county.
He has a good two-stamp mill, rock
crusher and ore bin. Steam is the
motive power. He is now down about
forty feet on new shaft on the Gold
eighty feet, showing good ore in a
three-foot vein. The east drift is in
thirty-two feet, at which point cross
ledge of good looking ore has been
struck. 1t is three feet wide.
Desert Mining
The Hunt Brothers of Bakersfield,
who have been operating at Spangler
in Kern county, are reported return
ing to their camp.
The ledge they have been working
on shows exceptionally high values in
silver, picked specimens going as
high as 1000 ounces to the ton and
good values in gold and copper. The
ledge at the present time is somewhat
broken up, but as development work
progresses is gradually coming to-
gether and the walls are becoming
more defined.
The property was recently examined
by some Colorado mining men, and
they were very enthusiastic over the
outlook. They were very anxious to
secure a bond on the property, and
their proposition is still under consid-
Grafton.
Near Home Mines
The American BoraX company or
California is making many new i'm
provements at Daggett. having just in
,tanad N 160- -hOrsa mower engine where