Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-18
BIG GOLD STRIKE
IN ARIZONA MINE
DISCOVERY OF RICH ORE OVER
FOUR FEET THICK
Los Angeles Capitalists Operating in
Mexico-chanae In Mining Laws.
Rapid Developments at
Searchlight

The old Hassayampa district in
Yavapai county, Arizona, Is represents
ed to be wild with excitement over the
recent big strike at the Senator mine.
The strike means unquestioned sue
cess for other claims into which one or
more of the Senator veins extend.
Among these are the Stormcloud group,
the Dunkirk and the Rockefeller. In
fact, the veins have been traced on the
surface and covered by locations for q
distance of over five miles. Present in
dications point to the Hassayampa dis
trict ranking among the topnotchers in
the territory.
Major A. j. Pickrell, who has been
associated with James Douglas, one of
the partners of Phelps, Dodge & Co.
induced those capitalists to resume
operations about eighteen months ago.
The tunnel was then in 1900 feet. It's
length is now 2S00 feet, and five feet
of progress is made every time that
shot Is fired, the formation being prin-
cipally syenite, an extremely hard
rock. Mining experts say that the
Senator tunnel is one of the best ex-
amples of scientific mining engineering
In the country.
The strike uncovered a solid body of
gold and copper ore four feet wide.
The estimated value is $50 to the ton.
Mexican Mining Laws
Consul j. A. Leroy of Durango, re-
porting on the possibility of changing
the mining laws of Mexico, says:
There is talk of comprehen-
sive revision of the mining laws of
Mexico, not with a view to any radical
changes, but to make more bar
monious whole of the accumulation of
Legislative enactments. executive de-
crees etc, that have grown up since
1891; also with a view to certain
changes advocated by the mining IN
terests in the matter of fixing of boun-
daries, size of claims, methods of
registeration and payment of claim
taxes. The project was also broached
of restoring the former right held by
the government over deposits of oil
and coal as over other mineral de-
posits.
1t is the principle of Mexican
mining law. inherited from Spanish
law, that the title to mineral riches
vests in the state, and not in the indi-
Vidual possessing the surface of the
soil, and in granting mineral patents
the government gives the applicant
only the right to remove the minerals
In practice a Mexican mining claim,
so long as the requirements govern
ing its issue are compiled with, is to
all intents and purposes the same as
title in fee simple. The distinction in
principle remains, however, to the ex-
tent that it gives the state full author
ity and control and the right to in
sist upon, the conditions which it stip
ulates with regard to the develop
ment of the riches covered by the
conveyance.
This principle of reserving fee simple
in the state was abandoned at the time
of the promulgation of the present min
ing law with reference to deposits of
coal and oil, the rights to them pass
ing with the title of the surface of the
soil. 1t has been urged that the de-
velopment of MeXicos coal and oil re-
sources was not proceeding with the
rapidity that it would if the large land
owners did not possess the title to such
wealth underneath them.
The government has had a committee
studying the advisability and the le-
gality of a change of the law in this
respect, MAXIM; coal and oil deposits
subject to the same general principles
as are other mineral deposits, but the
report is understood to have been ad-
verse and the matter dropped.
Demand for Silver in India
The heavy demand for silver in India
and in the orient generally is having,
with other influences, marked effect
| Oll It's price, WHICH TOSe 10 OF 90 CeIlIS
/ in London in the third week in May.
There has been an advance in the price
of silver of 20 cents in three years.
| This advance is expected to continue,
and it will have good effect on the
| trade in eastern markets by increasing
! the purchasing power of the money
now used in the orient. In the first four
months of the current year Great Brit
ain exported to India O,000,00 worth
Of Gil nf IL, fe,
is rapidly increasing, it being estimated
that fully 50,00O,0OO ounces are con-
Sumed in that way annually. The
| United States and Mexico combined
! yield more than so per cent of the
worlds output of silver and they both
| derive a large advantage from its in
crease in price.
El Dorado District
! Values better and better are being
exposed as depth is attained on the
Venus in Nevada, while the exception
ally rich strikes being made from time
to time tend to keep the excitement at
| high pitch Recent samples in the bot
! tom of the shaft averaged some twenty
ounces in gold per ton. These samples
are taken in sulphide although there is
! some free gold to be seen in the rock.
| The management is now sinking for the
200-foot level and states that it will
continue cutting stations at the differ
ent levels until the 500 foot level is
reached. Two shifts of three men each
are being employed in sinking the shaft.
Drilling machinery for the Black
Hawk is on the way and drilling for
water for mill purposes will begin inn
mediately on it's arrival.
Preparations are being made to begin
a 500 foot shaft in the Mountain Ell Do
RADIO group.
The Nevada -Eldorado at the 200 foot
| level uncovered a good body of high
I grade ore which is reported to run from
$75 per ton upwards. Drifting in two
| different directions has begun and ore
is being taken out as rapidly as pos
sible. There is large quantity of high
grade free milling ore on the dump
which, as in many other cases in the
district, is being held for shipments
until the railroad now under construc-
tion reaches Searchlight
Half Million Purchase
The Mountain Copper company at
Keswic1 is negotiating for the purchase
of the Original Quartz Hill mine. 1t Is
stated that $450,0OO has been Offered for
! the mine