Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-29
AFTER 3O YEARS NEW STRIKE
 E MADE
Old Desert Mining District 0fI Ord Mountain in New Hands. Shows Wealth And Begins To Boom.
tBy Allan Kelly Is Los Angeles

(By Allan Kelly Is Los Angeles Times.)
 Ord Mountain mining district, eight miles south of Daggett in San Bernar dino county. has been brought into prominence, after thirty years of som. nolence and desultory operations. by the development of promising body of gold ore in claim opened by the Hassen brothers for the Ord Mount ain company.
 The work of the Hassens is the first systematic, thorough mining op- eration ever seen on Ord Mountain and their success in proving the char. acter of the rhyolite dikes of the country has aroused the interest of desert miners and attracted many prosDectors to the district. There is nothing like a stampede, however, for all the desert knows that Ord Mount. ain has been covered with patented claims for many years and that very lSsie of the mineral belt remains open to location.
 J. B. Osborn of Daggett prospected the mountain thirty-three years ago and has held thirty-two patented claims. besides many locations. ever since without developing a mine. He has valued his holdings chiefly for copper, and has taken from surface working, a considerable quantity of copper ore from time to time, but has paid little attention to the gold indications, and other locators have followed his lead and looked for COD per.
 Ocd Mountain is a huge dlorite mass. traversed by great many par. allel dikes of rhyolite from southeast to northwest, most of them cropping conspicuously and all showing re markabfe regularity of formation. The ore chutes and bodies occur in these dykes and in several distinct cross veins of porphyritlc quartz which are plainly true Assures and highly min. eralized. The mountain has been known for years to miners as .'the treasure house of the desert, :" but | was assumed that Osborn owned all of the ground worth locating and that 1t was useless for any one else to seek the treasure. Some claims were located about twenty years ago north of the bulk of 0sborn's holdings, but nothing more than the merest surface prospecting Was done, and the claims were abandoned and relocated several times without advancing the develop ment of the region.
 Ord mountain takes it's name from the late Gen. E. O. c. Ord, U. $. A. who, as Capt. Ord, was engaged in coast work in Southern California from 1851 to 1855, and camped for a time at the Aztec spring, on the north side. Near the spring stands an old stone cabin, known to all desert prospectors and referred to as a land mark in the records of locations. Close by is the ruin of the cabin built and occupied ay Lee, the partner of Gov. Watermanl who disappeared while engaged in litigation over the Waterman mine, and believed to have been murdered. Lees cabin was hlnEfn m at that time, and oid-timers On the desert have positive opinions so this day about the identity of the destroyer of both man, and cabin.
 Although J. B. Osborn has done very little thorough mining in Ora Mountain district. and doubtless has retarded development by hoi:...sss so many claims and only pottering about on the surface. he has been the road builder of the desert and has made the region accessible Traction en- zines are his hobby, and in order to get hR ponderous machines to the mountain he has built good wide roads, and team may be driven on q trot to almost every claim on the north side. The distance from Dag gett to the new townsite of Hassen- vile by the excellent Osborn road is eleven miles. and as there are no steep grades. 1t is easy to haul in machinery and freight out ore to the railroad The traction engine made trip a few days ago and haafed out eighteen tons of copper ore from one of the Osborn's claims The possi- bflities of the Osborz properties are indicated by the fact that a recent shipment to Salt Lake of two car loads gathered from prospect hole dumps returned F per cent in copper.
 About a year ago, MT. Osborn sold the Copa mine at Resting Springs for s35O coo. and since that sale he has been putting money into roads and doing work on his claims He has a weil-equipped camp and is driving . tunnel into the mountain to open a large body of ore that runs high la copper ard carries about s20 n gold to the ton. One of the Osborn shafts sunk with a wirdIass. struck water al 165 feet. and water was encountered in one of the tunnels In both cases the ore at water level was found to be rich sulphide. but the water stopped work. One of the most promising os born claims is on a quartz Assure cut ting the dykes from north to south The ledge is from four to twenty feet in width. carrying from ' to II per cent in copper and from $s tc l s12 n gold. but 1t has not been open ed to any depth.
 The Hassens bought three unGe vesoped claims from W E. Steadmar and located eight more on the nortf side. Eight of the claims are held D. the Hassen brothers individually Last February they began sinking or one Of the company claims, following an ore chute on the dip of a rhyclit' i dyke with an incline snaft al an sr=Ssl' of 70. degrees. Theirs Is the first and opiy power hoist in the district and tfey are mining in workmanlik' l fContinued on Page Twelve)