Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-29
PANAMINT RANCE
MINING ACTIVITY
BIG RUSH CONTINUES TO MAN
HAITIAN FIELD
Placer Mining Operations Resumed in
Bed Of Old San Jacinto River.
San Diego Capitalists

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slocum has just returned to his home
in Monrovia from this region, where
he has been relocating group of
claims consisting of the King Midas,
Black Beauty, Golden Shower and
Bird. These will be developed by Los
Angeles and eastern capital.
The most encouraging sign In this
region, says the Randsburg Miner, is
the Philadelphia and eastern capital
that Is being placed, and at present
there is such activity in the Panamint
country and Slate range that the work
OF the past year really represents more
ore uncovered than has been done for
the previous eight years altogether.
Something of n furore was created
by a strike in the gold zone in the
telegraphy" that carries desert tidings
the old timers learned Of free gold
strike and for the past month they
have been industrously locating claims,
determined to get the best of them
before the news penetrated to the out
side world.
An extra force will be put on at
the Edna properties as soon as Fitz-
gerald reaches this country. On one
of his claims the shaft is down 365 feet.
There Ia three thousand feet OF devel-
opnlent work done In this camp, which
is thirty-five miles from Barstow in
the Panamint mountains. Frank An
drews of the New York stock exchange
Is interested with Fitzgerald.
Manhattan Wonder
Tonopah Sun: The boom at Man
haitian Is now in the stage of having
attracted the attention of the entire
country. The riches of Manhattan
have been told until the country now
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as freely as 1T does those of Goldf1eld,
Bullfrog and Tonopah. The effect will
be different than with either of those.
When Tonopah was discovered the
world had no faith In Nevada and 1t
caused so slight a ripple that the rush
was almost iinperceptibe. 1t was
some months after the discovery of
Goldfeld that the people could be con-
vinced of its reality and then there
was tremendous rush. Bulfrog has
been advertised as an enormous high
grade milling proposition with less of
the phenomenal shipping ore in pro-
portion and all must admit that the
rich surface spots are the kind that
attract the crowd. Manhattan has the
dizziness at the surface, the widening
lodges within a few feet below, the
restored confidence of the world in Me-
vada and is attracting instant atten-
tion as nothing has since the steamer
Portland reached Seattle in '97 with
a. ton and a half of Klondike gold.
If It so happens In the stampede that
Manhattan is overcrowded and is
overdone, there will be other camps
not far away that can accommodate
all comers. The Sun is credibly in
formed that Clifford will justify as big
a boom as Manhattan and that the men
whose foresight is extremely acute are
now getting iii there at rapid rate.
a.,
the value Of silver as a sign of per-
rnanency and depth are securing all
interests they can while the chances
are so favorable at Clifford, Belle
helen and Silver.
Placer Mining Activity
Redlands Review: Placer mining in
the old bed of the San Jacinto river,
between Perris and Elsinore, is one of
the latest enterprises in this season.
Considerable quartz mining has been
done in the hills for years past, but
until recently placer mining has been
overlooked or given but little attention.
The new company operating at Per-
ris Is the Cahuila Mining company of
Boston, Mass. and is backed by
wealthy capitalists of that city. j. II.
Whitlock is the local manager of the
company, and is pushing the work with
all possible speed. Mr.. Whtlock has
several men employed in the canyon
south of town pumping out the water
holes In the river bed and building
sluice boxes, preparatory for active
work. The river in the meantime has
been turned aside three horse
power gasoline engine with No. 2
centrifugal pump is used, but Mr..
Whitlock states that larger machinery
will be installed at once. and the force
of men will soon be doubled.
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Perris and Elsinore has been quietly
located, some of which in the bottom
of the water holes proves to be very
rich. Tuesday some very rich gravel
was struck, which ran from % cents
to 81 to the pan, with many large flakes
Of gold found In 1t. 1t is thought that
the average ground will prove very
profitable and when sluicing begins Mr.
Whitlock expects to work at least
twenty yards of gravel per day.
New Mining Company
San Diego News: Articles of incor-
Ioration of the San Diego Mining and
Milling company have been filed with
the recorder of Mohave county, Ariz.
The company is organized under the
laws of Arizona.
The incorporators are all San Dieg-
ans. They are: G. +. Francisco, senior
member of the real estate Arm of Fran
eoisco e. Symes; W. j. Prout, another
real estate man; George A. L. Urban,
a grocer; G. II. Burlock, mining man;
w. r. Hadley of the realty firm of
Hoover. Hadley & Crosby, and Nj. b.
Anderson. justice of the city court.
Kingman, Arlz., and San Diego are
to be the principal places of business
of the new corporation, the board of
directors holding their meetings here
The capital stock Is to be 81, ,0O0, 900, with
shares at "a par value of 81 each.
The first board of directors is COM
posed of the gentlemen named above.
Mr.. Burlock has been In Arizona for
some time, and is the prime mover in
the corporation. fhe officers for the
first year are: President, w. J. Prout:
vice president, M. B. Anderson; secre-
tary G. r. Francisco; treasurer, George
A. L. Urban.
VIII Erect SmeIter
Tucson (Arlz) Star: The mining
property twenty-five miles west of Mo-
gales, just south of the International
line, sold recently by Colonel A. w.
Tenant to New York parties, after
a thorough examination made by two