Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
RAILWAY TO MANHATTAN
WILL MARKET RICH ORE
NEVADA MINE OWNERS REJOICE
Recent Important Discoveries in the New Bonanza
Dstrict-COntinued Activity Around Search
light-Labor Scarce in Shasta County
Valuable Placer Mines

runs in porphyry and tale. A notice.
able feature Of this find is the fact that
the ledge has a hard quartz casing on
both sides that carries good gold values.
Samples taken from the castings aver
aged better than SIS in gold Five as
says were made from the ledge. and the
| returns were as follows: $3.50, S24,
$2170, $3.50 and $4.40. A ten-inch
streak next to the hanging wall runs
In the hundreds and was not included
In the assays Work on this property
will now be prosecuted in an aggressive
manner. and another tunnel will be
started at once to cross-cut the other
lodges that are exposed on the surface.
The Cyrus Noble Extension has
reached the 100-foot level and will at
once begin drifting and prosecuting
| to determine the extent and value Of
the vein. The showing so far is very
favorable to the making of big mine.
In Shasta County
There is a scarcity of miners through
out Shasta county. Nearly every i'm
portant mine is running short-handed
and has standing orders for more ex-
perienced workers-machine men, tim
ber men and single-handed and double
handed miners. Muckers and outside
men are plentiful.
The Mammoth mine, near Kennett,
The mine has been working two eight
hour shifts. On July 10 the manage
ment desired to put on a third eight
hour shift, filling out the day, and tried
to secure hundred more miners They
are not to be found. The company has
lately built new boarding houses at the
mine and has done all that can be done
to make its employees comfortable, but
the fact remains that 1t cannot get the
t1tIfON h Near- Nf mi,
Similar trouble exists at De la Mar,
in the Bully Hill mine. at the Iron
Mountain mine near Keswick and at
the Gladstone near French Gulch
The Mammoth Copper company's
pay roll at Kennett, including the
smelter and the mine, totaled between
$4,000 and $60OO0 this month. There
were 612 names on the pay roll, of
which $50 at the mine and 80 at the
smelter were for full months pay
Mexican Miners Superstitious
Folk traditions have in many ways
played Il prominent part in the develop
ment of the mining industry in Mexico.
One of these which amounts really to
a decided superstition, is the pro-
nouncei aversion of the Mexican miner
to work in mine that has been entered
by woman. The origin of this super
stition is not easily traced, though it
Is claimed that 1t originated among the
primitive native miners who exploited
the mines of the country before the ad-
vent of the Spaniards, and is connected
with the first miners strike in America.
A very interesting explanation Of the
origin of this superstition is given by
a person who claims to be somewhat of
student of Mexican antiquities. 1t
recalls, in a way, the time in Jewish
history when the Nile river adobe
makers were required to gather their
own straw for mixing with the then
universal building material.
The first strike that ever took place
in a mine on the American continent.
as far as there is either any tradition
or other record of the fact, was during
the reign of Moctezuma II. 1t is noto-
rious that this Moctezuma was one of
the weakest Of the line of Mexican
rulers since the time of old Tenox, who
brought the tribe into the valley, or at
least since the great civil war in which
the older Moctezuna made such a brill
liant display of military genius and
generalship, and the result of which
struggle was the great triple alliance
He was, in fact, educated for the
priesthood, and at the time he was
called to the throne he was sweeping
the steps of one of the numerous teo-
CALI in the city. His character was al
most as effeminate as that of one of
his predecessors who was made to
wear women's clothes to amuse the
tyrant Maztlin 1t is not surprising
therefore. than when there was a
strike among the miners in one of the
districts which furnished the large
part of the gold and silver for the
royal treasure, he sent an outfit of
women to scab on the strikers.
"Of course the women did not prove
very successful, but the miners were
not satisfied in the knowledge that the
business was being carried on at a
loss. They sought 20 further avenge
r part of the roof of the mine to cave
in on the women, causing most OF
them to perish.
This was a great victory for the
strikers and Moctezuma decided to
accede to their demands for higher
wages. But the miners had now grown
decidedly naughty and refused to &C
back to work. The managing commit
tee met and issued an edict that nc
miner should ever re-enter the mine
where the women had died. At this
point Moctezuma sent another gang of
men to work in the mine, but every
one that entered perlshed.
when the Spaniards began to work
the mines in this country they natur-
ally employed natlNe miners. IneSe
were little more than slaves, but they
maintained a strict observance of the
tradition in regard to working in a
mine where women had entered"
CooIgarde Placer Mining
Tweaty-one mining claims recorded
in the county recorders office at Sar
Bernardino are evidence of a new ano
rich strike in the old Coolgarde placer
region. lying twenty-four miles NORTH
of Barstow and north of the Waterman
property in the Grapevine district The
Coolgarde land is in the old Morrow
district one of the famous producers OF
placer gold In the earlier days. The
Coolgarde camp had considerable ex'
citement about ten years ago. but since
that time the region has been worked
only in a desultory fashion.
Some time ago A. r. Gibson of Lol
Angeles, Y C. Moseley of Barstow
Bert Sydes Of Fresno and Harry Mar
tin. an old time miner, began to pros
pect in the Coolgarde region. MartiT
a few days ego arrived in Barstov
with several sacks of coarse gold anC
a sack OF ore. The men believe they
have discovered the lead from which
the desert gold is supposed to come
Samples OF the ore show nuggets al
large as grains of wheat and the same
will run from sl00 to $500 per ton. A
large number of prOSDectors at BarstON