The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-05
NEW MINERAL REGION.
Gold, Silver, Copper and Lead or
Western Edge of Death Valley.

1t is characteristic of Rhyolite mining
people 10 be among the first in every new
district A new mineral section Is being
opened up on the western edge Of Death
Valley. The Los Angeles Examiner gives
the following account, in which VIII pc
found mention of several well-kno"n
In the Avawatz mountains, San Ber-
nardino county, adjoining the westerly
eGge OF Death Valley, a new mining re-
sion is being opened up; and yet it is not
so new. for as widely scattered arastras
snow, Spanish miners worked the sur
face nearly 1G) years ago.
The new section has just formally or
ganiZed into the Crackerjack gold mining
district. The district is about thirty six
miles square. 1t is about sixty miles
northwest of Daggett and the nearest
twenty-three miles distant, to which the
Tonopah-T idewater railroad has lately
been completed.
THE district contains gold, silver, cop
Nearly all the locations In the district
have been made by mining operators who
have won experience in the Nevada dis
trfctS, and the Crackerjack is considered
by these men to be a part of the mineral
belt that is receiving exploitation at
Tonopah. Goldfield, Bullfrog and Green
water. The latter is joined by the Crack
erjack on the southeast. The district is
rapidly filling up
''The Crackerjack Gold Mining company
holds four claims, on which there is be-
ing SUNK smart all IN ore ana a Cnree-
foot ledge Of ore assaying STA and two
foot ledge running Sl2S per ton have been
-pened up.
Joining the Crackerjack claims. on the
| southeast. MessrS. John Anderson, l.. A
| W. Johnson and A. III. Schliebetz, Los
| Angeles mining capitalists. have prop
| erty called the Tom Boy. Only little
| development work has been done on this
| property. but assays of the ore taken OUT
run up to 5000 per ton, and the continuity
of the ore body is shown by canyon
outcrop 200 feet below the surface
| Captain John HargraVe, formerly man.
| ager of the Anaconda copper mine at
| Butte, Montana, now Rhyollte operator,
| has a group Of claims northwest of the
Crackerjack company's holdings. with an
lS-lnch silver vein going up to !, 9O0-ounccs
| of silver to the ton. These claims have
| been bonded for $4,000.
| Fred Bender another Rhyolite opera
| tor, holds sixty claims showing surface
| values at the rate of SAL. Interested with
Mr.. Bender are Oscar Seals, James Nc
Auley, e. Van Fleet and l.. p kimbail
| also of Rhyolite.
| Moore and TOmlinSOn of Deggett. have
| a group of claims for which an offer OF
$4,000 has been turned down.
THE Beck & Wilson group has an out
| crop of ore from six to twelve feet wide
and running 5000 feet. The workings yield
orc from $11. So to SO per ton.
Among the fine showinss in copper are
those made by Captain Mclaughlin
| group, with ore carrying 15 per cent RED
metal. and by the Peggy group. belong
! iHG to Jack Anderson Zone of the Tom
| EOyS oynerS) and others. On the latter
| there is an ore blowout twenty feet wide
I.4G0 feet long ard asSaying 3i2 per cent
| Jack Anderson and others have
| group of claims with ore showing 81 pei
| cent in lead and. in addition, high values
| Il gold, silver and copper. Mr.. Anderson
| will begin the sacking of lead at once.
| Shorty Harris. locator of the frs
| Bullfrog mine, is numbered among the
most confident of the districts Iocators.
The district has already had its frs
| milling. yielding in a short run a golC
! Brick worth $1,000 the output being tina
! of Rose & Palmer, Bullfrog operators.
| Another mill is being put in by tn,
! Desert King Mining company, a Los An
| seles corporation, which has done tn,
| most extensive development work in tn,
district having driven a tunnel 435 feet.
"A townsite will be laid out at once ad
jacent to the Crackeriack company
| claims. and a stage line is soon to be oper
| ated from Silver Lake station. The new
town will also be connected shortly b!
| telephone with the railroad station, ;
| company for the construction of such lin
Paving been practically organized"