Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-21
MINING ACTIVE
IN NEW CAMPS
COMPANIES SECURE SUPPLIES
IN LOS ANGELES
Discovery Near Rhyollte--When Gold
Bolls--Plans to Boom Nevada.
Placer Mining In
Arizona

elected their officers who are chiefly
residents of Plttsburg, Pa. MIR. Moore,
the treasurer, has been in Los An
geles to secure a boring outfit which
Is to be employed in securing a large
amount of water on the different prop
critics in sufficient quantities for re-
duction works.
j. r. Wisner, New York broker,
has secured some excellent property
in the Mob Hill section of El Dorado
and expressed himself as being very
well pleased with the outlook and in
tends to Immediately organize a COM
pany and proceed with extensive de-
velopments.
Discovery Near RhyoIIte
A remarkable change has taken place
In the flow and temperature of the
water at Hicks Hot Springs, an un-
improved property about twelve miles
north of Rhyolte, New, since the
earthquake at San Francisco There
is group of three springs, the main
one Of which maintains temperature
OF ITO degrees and the other two 105
and 30 degrees respectively. The dis
charge from the principal spring is
carried through an iron pipe into
barrel. Very soon after the San Fran
cisco earthquake it was noticed that
the water from this spring was COM
pressure. 1t was spouting clear over
the barrel and its temperature had
raised five degrees, but no perceptible
change has taken place in the other
two springs. There has been no de-
Walton from this condition since. The
water spouts from the rocks at the
base of a mountain skirting the Amar-
gosa valley. The property is owned
by "Diamondfield Jack" Davis of
Goldfield and ]. j. Reagan of Man
haitian
Waning kloncike Output
Writing of the American gold fields.
the London Economists special mining
commissioner, who has been inspecting
this country's resources, remarks:
THE last season at Klondike was the
least profitable there has been since
its discovery in 1897, and it's output
OF gold has now fallen from a maxi
mum of $22,000,000 in 1900 to under So
100000 In 1906"
When Gold BoiIs
Professor Henri Moissan has been
trying some interesting experiments in
vaporing gold in the electric furnace.
He finds that it boils at 2400 degrees
centigrade, and that 100 to $50 grains
can be evaporated in two or three
minutes. By condensing the gold
vapor on a cool surface, either fill
form masses or cubical crystals can
be obtained. 1t is found that gold. like
copper and iron, dissolves q certain
amount of carbon when in the LIQUID
state, but this separates out as graph
ite on cooling. Gold is found to be
less volatile thar copper. The prop
critics of distilled gold are the same
as those of hammered gold, or the
melted metal reduced to a fine powder.
Professor Moissan has found no indi-
cations of an allotropic modification of
gold. When an alloy of copper and
gold is distilled the vapor or copper
comes over first, showing that there
Is no definite compound. In the case
of alloys of gold and tin the latter
metal burns in contact with the air.
This tin oxide is found to be of pur-
pie color, due to a, deposit of fine gold
on it's surface.
Will Boom Nevada
District Passenger and Traffic Agent
d. S. Taggart of the Southern Pacific
is arranging for the assem- bling of data
for book on southern Nevada's min
eral resources to be published by the
great transcontinental road. The book
will be given a circulation in every Sec
tion of the civilized world, the purpose
being to present to the public the ex-
ceptional opportunities of the great
mineral zone in order to develop
heavy travel to Nevada. Owing to the
disaster at San Francisco this means is
taken to divert the travel that would
naturally go to California under ordi-
nary circumstances. The Manhattan
and Round Mountain fields are being
covered by Harry Hedrick. editor of the
Nevada Press bureau.
Placer Mining Active
The placer mining industry of this
section of Arizona is again being prose-
cuted with more Of an interest than at
any time in the past decade. Every
gulch and stream within radius of
ten miles of Prescott has men at work
and in many instances more money is
being made by the individual than the
vocation of q tradesman could return.
The inducement that faces the regener-
alton OF this industry is due to the
abundance of water in every locality
on the surface for camp purposes, and
the subterranean flow at shallow depths
for mining usen. Within two miles of
this city 1T is estimated at least fifty
men are at work placering, while along
the HaSsayampa, Lynx creek, Big Bug
and other lesser gulches that lead into
them, there are more men engaged than
even in the palmiest days of placering.
Merchants as well as the station
keepers along the many routes of travel,
together with the smaller dealer at the
several camps, report the yield as in
dicating resumption of the industry
in production and decidedly lively in
terest is manifested to follow the calling
by others.
Previous to ten years ago the amount
of yellow metal to reach Prescott was
estimated all the way from $4,000 to
$150,000 annually from placer mining
sources. With the steady decline in
rainfall and the drouth that ensued in
later years the output gradually dlmln-
ished until ID was practically aban-
doned. Two years ago the heavy rain
falls again took place and followed In
cessantly during the last year by the
heaviest precipitation that ever took
place in this county In one years time,
An abundance of water is now an abso-
lutte certainty for the successful prose-
cution of this industry.
Trade With Mexico
A bulletin issued by the department
OF commerce and labor shows that the
trade of the United States with Mexico
in the fiscal year 1905 aggregated in
value $92 100000 as compared with $751;
600 900 in 1895, and $1s.00o,oOO in 1885.