Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
HASSONS ARE
FORTUNATE
BoRAx CLAIMS ARE LOCATED AT
PoRTERvlLLE
IvANPAH TAKES ON NEW SIGNS
y OF LIFE
Clarence Mackay Gets Revenge on
Man Who Wrested yellow Jacket
Mine from His Father in
Bonanza Days

Ord mountain in San Bernardino county
is proving to be truly the treasure house
of the desert" J. B. Osborn of Dag
gett, has had the big pile all to himself
for more than thirty years, doing only
intermittent work for copper. but it was
left for the Hassons of Los Angeles tc
prove the presence of valuable gold de-
poslts.
Ord mountain, including it's foothills,
has base area of four by six miles.
when a coione, in the army in the early
forties, led an expedition from Texas
to Southwestern California. At this point,
which is eleven miles south of the pres
ent town of Daggett, on the Santa Fe
line. he found a spring in the foothills.
His mcn refreshed themselves with the
cold, pure water that now supplies the
mining oamns, and he set up a post
bearing the words, "Ord mountain"
Evidently Co, onel Ord was not con-
cerned about mineral deposits, for there
is nothing TO indicate that he remained
long II San Bernardino county 1t is
of record, however that thirty-five years
ago. pioneer proGpectors were busy on
the hills. searching for the gold that
now is being extracted by mechanical
processes of which they knew nothing.
On one of the hilltops are the rem
nants of an arrastra, the rude Spanish
American mill. 1t still shows the large
vat III which rolled several heavy wheels
propelled by a horizontal beam that
turned about vertical axis and crushed
the ore. The rock was carried half a
mile down steep trail on burros.
About year ago Mr.. Osborn sold
the Copa mine at Resting springs for
S350,000 and since that sale he has been
putting monty into roads and doing
work on his claims. He has a we'll
equipped camp and is driving a tunnel
into the mountain to open a large body
Of ore that runs high in copper and car
ries about s20 in gold to the ton.
One of the Osborn shafts sunk with
4 wIndlass. struck water at 165 feet, and
water was encountered in one of the
tunnels. In both cases the ore at water
level was found TO be a rich sulphidc,
but the water stopped work One of the
most promising Osborn claims Is on a
quartz fssure cutting the dikes from
north to south. The ledge is from four
to twenty feet in width, carrying from
z to 1c per cent in copper and from
50 to $l2 in gold, but it has not been
opaled 10 any depth.
The Hassons bought three undevel-
oped claims from w. z. Steadman and
located eight mere on the north side.
Eight of the claims are Eeid by tn ,
Ord Mountain company ard three by
the Hasson brothers individually. Last
II 'ch,uary they began sinking on ons
of the company claims, following an ore
chute on the dip of rhyolite dixie with
ar incline shaft at an angle of 70 degrees.
Theirs is the first and only power hoist
in the district, and they are mining in
workmanlike fashion.
Valuable Ore
The Hasson shaft is down $50 feet, and
it struck at 237 feet flow of two miner s
inches of water, which Is as good as
gold in any desert camp. Pending the
arrival of appliances for handling the
water, Logan drifted east and west from
the shaft on the 100 and 200 levels, and
in the east drift on the 100 level he ran
into twelve feet of ore that averages bet
ter than 500 in gold to the ton. Assays
of streaks run as high as $14OO, but the
average of the whole ore body is more
thar 500. In the west drift is three
foot cross fissure of 5000 ore.
The mountain is a huge diorite mass,
traversed by great many parallel dikes
of rhyolite from southeast to northwest,
most of them cropping conspicuously and
all showing remarkable regularity of
fol nation. The ore chutes and bodies
occur in these dikes and in several dis
tinct cross veins of porphyritic quartz
which are plainly true assures and highly
mineralized.
Below Ord mountain there is some
placer ground, said to be good for 90
cents to dollar a yard, and some dry
washing is being done. A gas engine
wns taFen in yesterday to operate ma
chinery OIL placers at Camp Rock. There
are about 100 men now in the Ord noun
tain district, forty of them at work on
the Hasson, Osborn and Lamantin prop
critics, and the rest prospecting or doing
assessment work. asa
The Murchie and the Murchie Exten-
sion quartz mines of Nevada City district
are both showing the finest bodies OF
ore that have marked their history In
the former two important strikes have
bacn made quite recently and at the
latter very large vein that carries
much rock which gives milling tests of
several hundred dollars a ton is being
blocked out. ift
r l.. Rails of Delano filed last week
four claims covering borax mine he
has discovered in the mountains to the
east OF Forterville and which he an
ticipates will lead him quickly to untold
wealth The ledge is near Deer creek,
the Dad from Portervilie to Hot springs
literally running through 1t, three-foot
cut having been made through the ledge
for the roadway The outcroppings of
+aa larloa Mr. Rails saws run for 5000