Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-29


Nevada and California will be in the
grand rush to take place at noon today
t. acquire mining claims on the Walker
river Indian reservation thrown open
for development by the government
Prospectors have been i'm ferment of
excitement for weeks, and thousands of
goldseekers are ready at Hawthorne to
make the run.
The Walker river Indian reservation
lies in Esmeralda county, New, and
embraces 26S, 900 square miles Of terri
tory The section is rich in minerals.
The Indians ill occupy all Of the till
able land, about 100000 acres.
For years this reservation, which
comprises the greater portion of two
immense mountain ranges, known to
carry values in gold, lead, silver and
"copper" has enticed the venturesome
prospector within its borders in hopes
of finding bonanza that he could some
day locate. 1t has been difficult to
prospect within the reservation of late.
The Indian police were increased in
number and armed with WinchesterS.
To be caught is to suffer the confsca-
tion of the prospecting outfit, and at
the headquarters of the reservation it
is said that there are now five carloads
of confscated supplies.
through the reservation has been made
aware of the riches of the region from
samples of free gold ore that the In
dams have in their possession, and this
land has for years been coveted by the
whites as mining territory.
Within the last few months the gov
ernment negotiated a treaty with the
Indians for the sale of their lands, SO
that the reservation might be thrown
open to settlement and prospecting.
Scores of government surveyors and
mining experts were put upon the land
to survey it and segregate the mineral
from the agricultural territory, the in
tention being to allot the agricultural
lands only to the Indians and throw
the mineral lands open to prospectors.
Silver Mining Revived
The rapid and steady advance in the
price of silver is causing a revival in
silver mining which points to great
boom in the camps famous in years
gone by for their production of the
white metal. A dispatch to the Denver
Times from Gunnison says:
1.-The decided advance in the price of
silver is causing an awakening in the
silver belts of this port of the state.
The camps of Pitkin, Tin Cup, White
pine, Romley, Hancock, Monarch and
ST. Elmo, which have a productive rec
ord of nearly $5O,0OO,0O0, are sure to be
materially benefited.
SILVER mines which have been idle
for years are to be operated This,
coupled with the fact that the gold
belts are already active, give assurance
of increased prosperity. Many proper
ties which were compelled to shut down
in 1898 are to be reopened and placed
IN tha nrOductive list again.
1.-THE rise in the price of silver, to-
gether with modern methods of ore
treatment and greatly reduced smelling
charges, will have very gratifying
result on low grade properties. With
the white metal soaring toward ~
cents greater profits are assured the
mine operator than he received htteen
years ago, when the dollar mark was
the prevailing price.
1.-THE great Mary Murphy mine at
Romley. which is credited with a pro-
duction of $14,OOO,O00, is to be extern
sively operated At Hancock three
large tunnel projects are under way,
namely, the Camilla, Comstock and
Buena Vista, operated by companies Oh
the same name However, the veins
being driven for all carry large per-
centage in gold"
Idaho tells the same story. Through
out the entire west, in camps long
silent silver mines that have not known
the sound of drill or blast are being
reopened, and soon a stream of the
white metal will go pouring over the
land.
Strike of Native Silver
Native silver in great Jumps was dug
from a ledge uncovered last week at
Gina. a desert station along the san
Pedro. Los Angeles &S Salt Lake rail
road. The ledge is a wide one, and
specimens taken assay as high as sou
to the ton. The locators are two Los
Angeles men. At the time the strike
was made one of the locators was In
Los Angeles. The other dug out several
Jumps of the white metal, enough TO Nil
several sample sacks, and came 10 Los
Angeles to carry the evidence of luck
to his partner.
The claim lies not a great distance
from the Salt Lake depot at Gina. The
two men have been working on the
nronertv for several weeks believing
| they had a copper proposition, when a
discharge of powder opened up the
real ledge. and i'm amazement the miner
found himself gazing at great REM
in the living rock which was white
with native silver, while about lay the
metal ir chunks.
New Mining Company
A number of prominent people of
Riverside and Los Angeles are form
ING corporation to be known as the
Palmetto Gold Quartz Mining company
to work one of the largest mines IN
Death valley. The main office of the
company will be at Riverside. The
company is to be incorporated under
the laws of Arizona with a capital
stock of 100000 shares, par value one
dollar each. The companys property
will consist of three full claims. is To-
cated about thirty miles, west of Gold
field and about ten miles from the new
Tonopah e. Tidewater railroad. now
building. To the west of the property
lies the LYDIA Queen mine, now working
in quartz from $50 to 5000 and have
about one and one-half miles of under
ground work done. on the east lies
| that great mine, the Golden Chariot,
which is shipping ore running all the
way from $iOO to $4,000 per ton. on
| the property there is series of big
lodges running parallel, from hve to
fifty feet wide, and assays from So to
SIS. The ore seems to be the same
| i'm charac cter with that found in the