Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-09
STATE MINING
is ACTIVE
uHEHEBE, lNYo COUNTY, SENDS
GOOD REPORTS
NORTHERN SECTION is FORGING
TO THE FRONT
San Bernardino Turns Several Attrac-
tive Deals and Looks for Big
Revival of Business
This Fall

Excellent reports continue to come from
the new copper camp at Ubehebe. upene-
be is situated in Inyo county, California
about go miles from Bonnie Clare or Mon
tana station, Nevada, with good wagon
road all the way. The credit for the poom-
ing of this camp is due largely to Jack
Salsberry, who has spent thousands OF
dollars making it what 1t is. or course
he has had expert mining men to invest
gate, and he has made up his mind that
this camp can be made dividend payer.
Mr. Salsberry Is negotiating for rail-
road and smelter which are almost as
slued This is not a stock Jobbing propo-
sition The ore is here to speak Tor ltseiI.
There are quite a number of camps tripu-
tary to Ubehebe, the Inyons, Tin noun
tain. Butte valley, old Belt Springs, Dodds
Springs, all of which are within radius
of u miles, but Ubehebe is the center Oh
them all.
Bales. Robertson & Co. of Los Angeles
are now operating the Doggett placer mine
on klamath river, just above OAK par,
and have just got their hoist and heavy
mining machinery and expect to nave
their mine fully equipped for sinking TO
bedrock by Sept. 10. This property is
known to contain rich values.
The one time famous Young America
mine six miles from Sierra City, is again
showing SlRuS VI eiSlANitJ' "A @~SS -~--e90
les company has bonded this property and
is preparing to run tunnel several thou
sand feet in length to crosscut the Young
America ledge at a great depth, and also
with a view of hitting the Berger ledge on
the opposite side of the ridge, thus COM
binine the two mines in one. The Young
| America has paid over S1,00O0O0 in divi-
dends but through bad management and
| the loss of all the buildings, including
forty stamp mill. by fire, the r1ine was
| closed down some eight years ago.
| The Hazelton mine, located about two
miles from Forbestown near the Yuba
county line, has been sold to the Pinal-
Butte Gold and Copper campany. The
mine has been shut down for about two
years. The purchasers are to begin de-
yelopment work Immediately. Over $780,
900 was spent upon the property by the
previous owners. The price paid for the
property is not given The purchasers
are capitalists from Los Angeles.
Strikes of high grade gold ore have
been made recently in mines on the ia
nous Mother Lode of California. The
Sierra Times reports the cutting of ten
foot vein of thousand dollar ore on the
300 foot level of the Omega mine near
jamestown. C. w. Ayers has been work
ing the claim for thirteen years, and he
first struck the rich vein eight months
ago at a depth of 100 feet where 1t was
only foot thick. The crosscut al 800 feet
is ten feet in ore and is not through the
vein.
A body of high grade ore has been found
on the 25O level of the Spring Gulch mine,
which is owned and operated by the john
son-Harlow company of Los Angeles.
The Spring Gulch shaft is down 575 feet
and its mill is crushing ten tons of ore
day. The mine in near Tuolumne.
In Eureka valley Malcolm Macdonald
has been spending Schwabs money with
freedom, and has something worth while
to show the steel king. Schwab and Bor-
den, the condensed milk man, have the
Sanger and McAfee copper properties and
have developed an immense body of ore
which is said TO average per cent. They
are working a large force of men and
putting the property in shape for a heavy
production.
over in Saline valley I. j. Fitting has
500 sacks of silver-lead ore which came
from an open trench which was run as the
approach to tunnel. If these values
hold in the tunnel he will soon have more
ore than he can care for under present
conditions Fitting is developing the old
Bunker Hill
The large mines of Calaveras county To-
Gated on the mother lode in the vicinity
of Angels Camp, have resumed work
after being closed several months by a
strike of about 1000 miners in that district.
The calling off of the strike followed the
election of new officers to govern the
union The miners claim that rowdy
element forced the strike upon those con-
tented with the original conditions. The
dissatisfied leaders were ousted and the
conservative element brought the strike
to an end.
A corporation has been formed to take
in five gold dredging companies in Butte
county These are the Butte Creek, Gold
en- Butte, Coo Channel. Nugget Ranch
and the Little Butte. The absorbing cor