Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-02-26
LATEST PLANS TO
DEVELOP MINES
ELY INTEREST TAKEN IN
NEW METHODS
Full Text Of Bill Introduced in Con-
uress to Create Department Of
Mines and Minng--Arlzona
and Nevada News

Among mines, mine owners and min
ing engineers, much interest is taken in
reports concerning the progress and in
ception Of important engineering plans
for the promotion of mining in Cali
fornia. One of the most interesting
projects for improving mining condl-
lions In California is the tunneling of
the mountain at Horseshoe Bar, in
Trinity county. The scheme will result
I'm turning the waters of the Trinity
river and laying bare three-fourths of
a mile of river for mining. only about
40 feet of the tunnel remains to be cut
through.
A great engineering feat will be per-
formed at the North Star mines in Me-
vada county. The central shaft will be
extended to q depth of 5000 feet, or con-
siderably more than half a mile. For q
distance of 1000 feet the shaft goes
down vertically, as straight as a plum
met. The extension will be on the in
cline, following the ledge, which runs
toward the northeast at an angle of
about rs degrees, in the direction of
Massachusetts hill. The Grass Valley
Union reports that the final result of
this Undertaking may be that the Mas
sachusetts hill and Central shaft will
be connected. This may lead to resum
ing Operations at Massachusetts hill.
The North Star company has pur-
Chased practically all Of the Massa chu-
setts hill district.
~ Two great mining deals are reported
to have taken place in Nevada. The
Tonopah Miner asserts that more than
$11000,000 was paid for the Nevada Con-
solidated mine at Ely figuring the
, shares at $40. The Guggenheims are
the purchasers.
The Montgomery-Shosh mine at
Bullfrog has been sold to Charles M.
Schwab. OF the last mentioned trans
action the Goldfield Sun reports: "Mr.
Schwab has purchased the interest Of
r. e. Montgomery, amounting to rs
per scent of the stock, and for this
interest it is said he has paid 3d. 900.
Malcolm Macdonald still owns a one
eighth interest, which he has refused
to sell at any price. The deal was
carried through by Donald B. Gillies,
general manager of the Tonopah Exten-
sion company. Included in Mr..
Schwab's purchases are the controlling
interests in the Polaris Mining company
and the Crystal Mining company. A
new holding company will be formed,
which will include all three of the
properties, in which, of course, Mr..
Schwab will be the dominant figure.
Mr.. Schwab has been for many months
attempting to get control Of this great
property, and now that he has control
1t is expected that he will at once
begin a series of working it for all
there is to 1t. OF course all the Bull
frog district will be greatly benefited
by this change, although the old man.
agement was preparing for development
work"
The Goldfield Sun also reports the
sale Of the Rush group of mines at
Bullfrog for $175,O0O, of which $4,000
was in cash, to DR.. j. G. Lyman and
others.
Nevada Notes
The following notes of mining oper-
atoms are collated from various Ne
vada exchanges:
On the Gold Bar property at Gold
field rich shoot of ore has been UNI
covered carrying values of $33,3ST60
in gold
The Silver Pick mine at Manhattan,
on the fifty-foot level, shows ore run
ming from $50 to 5000 per ton.
Ore carrying 1000 ounces in silver
has been discovered in the Everett
DUNCAN property at Goldyke.
Lease on the Sandstone mine has
made a shipment of 100 tons to the Co.
lumbia sampler which returned $4,000.
In the Massey, Cain and Hooper lease
in the Palmetto district, eighteen
inches of $4,000 ore has been struck
indians have found some very rich
ore showing free gold on the Walker
lake reservation.
strike of much Importance is re-
ported from the section of country
five miles from Bullfrog. The vein is
twenty feet wide and has been eX-
plotted for 1000 feet on the surface. 1t
is said to carry very good values.
At the initial run at the Kinkead mill
at Goldfield on Sandstone ore, a bar
containing $120 was returned from 100
pounds of ore.
An important strike has been made
between Hannapah and Clifford The
vein is sixty feet wide and carries
Y good gold and silver values.
Arizona Mining Notes
Prescott Courier: Daniel G.. Grant,
accompanied by County Assessor D. j..
Sullivan, paid the Courier a pleasant
call yesterday. Mr.. Grant is a native
of Albuquerque and is the owner of
the Albuquerque Journal, although he
is resident of Los Angeles. He is
the only son of the late A. A. Grant,
the noted contractor and railroad
builder. 1t is his first visit to this
gem city of the mountains, and he eX-
presses himself as very agreeably i'm
pressed with our city and people.
Tucson Post: Forty million dollars
in copper was produced in 1905 by
the mines and shelters of Arizona.
During the year the bullion product
closely appropriated 241,0O0,000 pounds
In 1904 the production was about 205,-
100000 pounds, worth at that time
about $4,000, 900.
1t is said that the production increase
has come largely through the opera
tons of The new Copper Queen smelter
at Douglas. though the Old Dominion
and United Verde mines each did TO-
100000 pounds better than i'm 1904, and
the Calumet and Arizona at Douglas
advanced 100000 pounds.
Owing to floods, the production Of
the Arizona Copper company dropped
off materially. The Shannon appears
to have held it's own.
Phoenix Republican,; "Scotty," the
now famous Deathevaley miner, who
has during the past year been before
the public first. by his wild railroad
ride across the continent and then by
his figuring prominently in a narrow
escape from death at the hands of
robbers in the Death valley, and in
which affair he claims to have been
wounded, and later by his stage as