Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-28
Accepts Minor Sentence

double compartment shaft will be sunk
TO the 1000-foot level Immediately, with
levels at the usual intervals.
Dupont-Newberry Districts
Excellent reports are coming from
Dupont and Newberry districts in Ne
vada. Both OF these districts lie in a
we'll mineralized belt about twelve
miles east of Searchlight, and work Of
development on most all of the proper
ties Is meeting with exceptional results.
Specimens from both of these districts
are literally impregnated with gold.
These outlying districts are all anx-
iously awaiting the arrival of the new
railroad into Searchlight in order to
reduce the cost of operation, which has
been a serious drawback UP to this
time, but the arrival of the railroad
will instill a new lease of life in these
districts and they will without doubt
give an excellent account of themselves
in the mining world.
Nuggets Of News
r. A. Mcwilliams and J. F. Davies, as
sociated with Ross Clark, capilist of
Los Angeles, have bonded the Patterson
and Lehman quartz mines, situated near
Tuttletown, near Sonora, Cal, from
the owners, c. A. Fitzgerald and Will
liam McGinn of this county, and A. e.
Davis of San Francisco.
George l.. Walker of Boston, who
has gained a national reputation as
the author of Walkers Weekly Copper
Letters, has been in Arizona for the
past fortnight and has visited during
that time Clifton, Globe and La Can
anea. He expects to spend a week in
inspection of the Copper Queen and
Bonanza Circle properties, and will go
from Bisbee to Helvetia and thence
north into Utah. Following his visit
to Arizona, series of interesting arti-
cles will appear in the Boston Com
mercial.
Corliss & Co., the Grants Pass com
Gravel about a mile south of Yreka,
CAL, have sunk a new shaft towards
bed rock, near the Scott valley stage
road, which is now down over seventy
five feet. They are troubled about q
heavy body of water coming In at
present, but expect to get down to bed
rock soon in using pumps for drainage.
The depth to bedrock is probably 100
feet, and having three pumps, may be
able to keep the water clear, or may
add another for the purpose. This
claim has always paid very rich on
bedrock where strata of blush gravel
and cement is found, for five or six
feet above the bedrock, carrying coarse
gold and nuggets. Most of the gravel
washes easily, but some of it is ex-
posed to the air for shaking before
washing.
A specimen of native copper five
inches long by two inches by one inch
in the other dimensions is on exhibition
at the postoffice at Paradise, Ariz. This
was found near that place and is the
first discovered in the district, but now
many similar nuggets of native copper
are being encountered in the tunnel in
which this one was found.
1t requires one ton Of copper to make
a mile of average electrical railway
trolley. There are about $4,000 miles of
trolley wire in the United States. 1t
is possible to travel from Bangor to
st. Louis almost without break on
trolley cars. This gives some idea of
what tremendous causes there are for
great consumption of this metal ana
the high, price it is commanding.
H. H. Simpson, president of the Vic
toria Mining company operating IN
El ORC, Mexico state, has left for New
York for the purpose of closing tran
saction with a London mining in
vestors' syndicate, which proposes to
buy the mines and place its stock on
the London market with the object of
raising capital for development on a
large scale. The deal has been pending
for several months.
The Urique, Sonora, property of the
Lawson company of Mexico, of which
Thomas w. Lawson is president, is now
in the hands of the federal court at
JuareZ, Chihuahua. There is some un-
certainty as to the nature OF the lit
igation.