Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-04
GREAT ACTIVITY PREDICTED
FOR VIVIAN
Work Begun on Heck Property--East-
ern People Believed to Be Quietly
Buying Up Claims in Mo-
have County
Special to The Herald.

lowing the visit of S. II. Harris,
prominent mine owner of Nevada,
points directly to the fact that the pre-
dictions recently given out to the press
are about to be realized. When Mr..
Bean was questioned by a Herald cor
respondent at this place he would make
no direct reply to the question as to
whether he represented an eastern
syndicate intending to operate In the
camp of Vivian, 20 miles southwest of
here, or whether he was interested in
the proposed water and power plant to
be built by Thomas Ewing from Needles
through TO Vivian to supply the Victor
Virgin, German American and the Heck
properties with water.
The recent discoveries and rich assays
made from ore on the Knight and Heck
mines has caused many rumors to be
circulated and it seems almost certain
that great activity will soon take place
at Vivian and in the adjacent country
The phenomenal success of the Gold
Road and other producers is no doubt
attracting eastern capital some of
which has already been diverted from
Nevada for the reason that Vivian is in
the same belt and only so miles from.
Searchlight, New, and has the advan-
tage of having several producers to
back it up, while Nevadas properties
are practically in their infancy.
Capital Buying Quietly
While the mad influx of Nevada is
going on it is thought that eastern capi-
tai is quietly buying UP Mohave county
properties and thus be able to secure
valuable claims at a very low price.
Mr.. Bean, while evading the questions
directly put to him, stated, in answer
to what he thought of the future pros
poets for mining:
THE opinion is held by many people
of foresight in Wall street that this
country is entering upon an era of min
eral production and mining stock specu-
lation, which has rarely, IL ever been
equaled in our history. There is no
doubt that the productive era has, in
recent years, been greatly increased.
The United States geological survey re-
ports production of over $1000,00 900
by the mines of the United States in
1902, and the yield of the present year
will probably exceed this by 20 per cent.
Discoveries of great mineral fields have
in the past few years been made in Ne
vada, Arizona Idaho and southeastern
California, which have not yet been de-
veloped to a producing basis but which
will soon be adding very greatly to the
nations mineral production, especially
that in Arizona.
THE rapid increase in production has
been largely due to Improvements in the
methods of mining, it no wbeng profit
aDle 10 NOTk lne fN VAST DOul6S VI low
grade ore which, were left untouched in
the early days, while the placer gravel,
which was worked by the forty-niners'
of California, is now being again worked
at a profit of about IL cents a cubic
yard. The building of railroads and
smelters throughout the Rocky noun
tain region has also made paying mines
of what were formerly considered
Valueless prospects,"
Asked as to what he thought of the
country he had just 'een through he
said:
Impressed With Outlook
81 visited many mines in and about
Vivian and am very favorably inn
pressed with the general appearance of
the country. While 1 did not make
any assays 1 found outcroppings very
prevalent and many ledges carrying
apparently considerable mineral The
specimens from the Knight, German
American and the Heck mines seemed
to run very high in free gold. At the
Heck mine where very active work is
contemplated, l found at one point
where two ledges came together a shaft
down nearly forty-eight feet and a
five-foot ledge was exposed, carrying
free gold plainly visible to the naked
eye. The former and present success
of that camp with the indications can
but point to very rich strikes, and no
doubt will bring Vivian up to one of
the foremost camps of the west, but it
will be necessary to do considerable de-
velopment work, though it can be
safely carried on, as almost assured
profits are awaiting the investor
The long draWn-out cry of water has
been echoed for the last time. Thomas
Ewing and a Denver syndicate have
contracted for an electric water sub
ply for this section and the survey
lines pass through Vivian and directly
through the claims of the Heck Gold
Mining company, ending at the property
known as the Victor Virgin, a short
mile from the Heck property.
This power will be derived from the
Colorado river, less than ten miles dis
tant. Mr.. Harris has visited most of
the mines in the Gold Road and is
more than favorably impressed with
this country. He says that he has been
in most of the mining camps of the
world, and While he is heavily inter
ested in Nevada he says that Vivian
is destined to be the greatest mining
camp in the world. and already shows
up greater than any camp in Nevada.
"Mr. Harris says that while the Gold
Road country has proven it is a low
grade property and though it pays 81
per share per year dividend, that it
hasn't the outlook of the mines south
east VI lndl punt.
Looks for Good Ore
"He says the mineral is centered
mile above Vivian and the German
American and the Heck properties will
undoubtedly show up as producers far
ahead of the Gold Roads.
Mr. Harris is expected to make an
official report to the state in a few days
and some startling information will be
looked for"
Mr.. Harris. who came up to the sec
tion as the guest of Harry A. Rodgers,
manager of the California Promotion
syndicate, had taken an option on some
of the Heck stock, and he now has
closed the deal after examining the
same. This means considerable money
to the Heck company, and a wire from
Mr., Heck, who is now in Denver nego-.
tiating for machinery, states that two
or three shifts of men win go to work
in this property within two weeks. This
win be good news to Los Angeles peo-
pie. because they practically control
this mine, most of the stockholders
living in that city.
Mr. Gunther secretary Of tha Heck