Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-25
MINING CLAIMS
! SHOW RICH ORE
PLANS FOR DREDGING ACTlV-
ITY ON BUTTE CREEK
Ingot Second srnslter Blown In at
Afterthought-Los Angeles Men
Buy Mines-Developments
at Searehlight

miles east OF CnlCO, Cal, Is soon TO
be the scene of active dredging and
sluicing operations, new style dredgers
to be used The Gold Dredging COM
pany Of Los Angeles capitalists, with
plenty of money back of It, has ac-
quired the property formerly worked
at Rich Bar on Butte creek, by DR..
Lands. Messrs. March, McCargar,
Harvey and others, comprising some
sixty acres. This company will also
install a steam shovel and sluicing
plant as soon as the machinery can be
received from the east.
Another piece of land, the property
of r. ]. Ferguson, comprising los acres,
has been taken hold of by another or
ganization in Los Angeles. This prop
erty is Immediately across the creek
from the Rich Bar mine and 1t is pur-
posed to work it in a similar manner.
1t Is not altogether improbable that
merger may be arranged between this
company and the Gold Bar Dredging
company, or that the same machinery
may be utilized in working both claims.
All of the companies have men of
wealth back of them and are in earn-
demonstration
the values lying beneath the surface.
Their method of mining will he
watched with much interest as estab-
fishing cheaper method of dredger
working of deep ground
Second smeIter at Afterthouaht
The new furnace at the Great West
ern Gold company's copper smelter at
Ingot, Shasta county, has been blown
Tra md hn lr.NR LII,
smoothly and treating about 200 tons
of ere a day. The blowing in process
was witnessed by Vice President o. e.
Adams and Directors Walsh, Noel and
Dittmarr. The capacity of the plant
is doubled by the operation of the
new furnace and the output will be still
more increased as soon as the zinc
can be successfully handled. At the
mine sinking has now ommenced
from the No. 4. or lowest level, through
solid ore. The entire winze is in good
ore and Indications are f1attering. The
railroad is being extended from the
Copper Hill around to the Afterthought
proper and explorations will be COM
menced in that rich claim at once.
Kern County News
c. ]. Callahan, mining engineer,
has just returned from the Rosamond
mining district, Kern county, where
he has been examining the Black Cat.
No Good and Old Carolina mines,
owned by Barr and Bailey and F. C.
Ensign of Los Angeles. Mr.. Callahan
reports the above named properties to
be large low grade propositions, hav-
ing great quantities of ore in sight
assaying about Sc per ton, which can
be worked at little expense. Extensive
development work is being done on
fLa ooIr
for which stamp mills have been or
dered, to be in operation by September
next. The Ensign Mining and Devel-
opment company has let a contract on
the Old Carolina group of claims for
tunrel and shaft work, and conSidera-
BILE work is also being done on the
group of claims owned by Mr.. Francis
of Los Angeles.
While these people might be termed
"tenderfeet" in mining, they have ap-
parently stumbled on to something
good and deserve great credit for the
energy shown in developing their
finds"
There are a number of successful
mines in active oper, ton in the i'm
mediate vicinity of these claims, one
of which, the famous Hamilton mine,
with a five-stamp mill running night
and day, has turned out over quarter
of a million dollars in the past eighteen
months. to say nothing of the bullion
produced by the Fairvlew, Exposed,
Treasure Queen Esther, Karma, etc.
The amount of development work now
being done in the neighborhood-
known as the Rosamond mining dis
trict-considering it's accessibility, rail-
road facilities, ETC., will doubtless
prove to be one of the best mining
sections in the west
Bought Mining Property
Several important transfers in min
ing property near Sonora, Cal, have
recently been consummated. Josiah
Phillips has decided to ]. S. Kuns of
Los Angeles the Half Breed, the Los
Angeles, the George Gould quartz mine,
the Phillips and the Antioch quartz
mines; also water right, two water
rights on Tuolumne river and two
water rights on Turnback creek. Jesse
and Frank Thisse have decided to Duke
F Baxter of Los Angeles for $2500,
the Los Angeleno quartz mine and wa
ter rights. formerly the Sunday claim;
the Baxter claim, formerly the Re-
lance; also the Marble and Monday
Morning quartz claims. They also deed
the Eugene Day ranch less that por-
tion embracing the John Royal quartz
mine.
The Copa De Oro Mining company
has sold its Mother Lode Gold Dredge
at Descanso, Cal, comprising 800 acres
of patented land, to d. F. Platner, a
promoter and mining man of Los An
geles, Cal. The price paid was 100000,
Mr.. Platner made an offer for 1t three
years ago. He will stock the property
and commence work at once and it is
prophesed this property will make one
of the largest camps in Southern Cali
fornia
The Standard -Magdalena Mines COM
pany of Los Angeles has purchased and
will develop and equip the Ell ORC
mine in the Magdalena mining district
of Sonora, Mexico. and about 25 miles
southwest of Nogales. Ariz. The COM
pany was organized by William V.
Holley and l. e. Meyer, who recently
opened the STANDARD Copper mine in
eastern San Bernardino county.
The Long Beach Land company have
just received some fine ore samples
from their mine in San Bernardino
county. The ore includes copper, gold
and silver, some of the copper running
as high as 20 per cent, and containing
free gold. There are also some good
samples of iron ore which also carries
free gold.
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