Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-11
LEE SECTION
LOOKS GOOD
CLOUDY DAY GROUP SECURED BY
ANGELENoS
coNsUELA MINES PREPARE FOR
BONDS
Mines Are Active in Vicinity of Grass
Valley in Eureka District,
GranitevilIe Having
Boom

Arthur King superintendent of the Lee
Jumbo, reports that he has determined to
open new tunnel at greater depth and
a point assigned by the engineer in
charge will give them over 1900 feet of
stopping ground.
The ore shoot has proved a permanent
one, and the operators have set aside
funds which will complete the work.
This looks well for Lee. This district
has shown satisfactory results wherever
the ground has been opened.
Prospecting in the neighborhood of the
Cloudy Day group in the same district
HIS opened up some wonderful ore The
owners of this group have negotiated with
some Los Angeles people for the sale of
the property and now they are sorry.
They regret their bargain because the
adjoining property has become proved
mine from the grass roots.
A mortgage securing a bond issue of
$6500O0 has been filed for record in San
Bernardino county by the Conauea Mines
company of Los Angeles, which mort
cages all its property in this state, Ne
vada and Arizona. The bonded indebted
ness is to run for 40 years. the bonds
bearing 10 per cent interest. The COM
pany has mining property in Yuma coun-
ty, Arizona; Lincoln county, Nevada, and
mining claims in the Twenty Nine Palms
district in Riverside, besides several
groups in the Gold Park district in this
county.
A. H. Weber is president of the COM
pany, Ben McLeuden being it's secretary.
The mortgage is vested in the Columbia
Trust company of Los Angeles.
The latest development in the Eureka
district is the Ancho mine. This property
is situated on the south side of Chapar-
raj mountain, near the CASTOR mine and
about two and one-half miles from Gran
iteville, advoining the Erie mine which is
owned by George Mainhart of Grass VAL
ley. In fact, the Ancho ledge is con-
tinuation of the Erie ledge and is being
opened as an extension of the Erie. In
former days the Eric was a large produc-
er and is still considered valuable prop
erty The Ancho is owned by Harry w.
Overman, recently of the state of Nevada,
and other parties, and has the very best
of financial backing.
Progress Rapid
Ground was broken on the 18th day of
September last, since which time new
ten stamp MILL an assay office, a COM
pany office, and a boarding house have
been erected.
1.-THE ledge of the Ancho is big" said
Mr. Overman the other day, land the as
says show that this should be one of the
DcSt pdylHB pTOpeTtleS III lI16 county.
A new road is to lie built from the mine
to the Republic mine, there to connect
with the main, road from Nevada City,
which will make access to the Ancho
much more conVe;--ent and save many
miles of hard h-uling over heavy grades.
All work has been shut down at the
Giant King mine on Washington Creek,
about mile above Washington, and
also at the company's sawmill at
PhalnS Hill whara thn work of 0affinQ I
out timbers for the stamp mill is in pro-
gress. 1t is claimed that the shutdown
will be only temporary. Superintendent
Carter says that the company has deter
mined to put in a compressor and air
drills so as to enable the shifts at work
on the tunnel to progress at more rapid
rate Two shifts have been employed at
the mine and seven or eight men at the
mill. The vein that is being followed
into the mountains is a very large one
and the ore is of good milling value Very
rich punches of ore have been struck at
intervals.
There is an indication of a boom in the
vicinity of Graniteville and mining ac-
tivity was never before so great A tel
ephone line is being constructed and the
people of this district, the Eureka, will
soon be in close touch with the rest of
the world. The Narcotic, owned by Ed
Grissel, Henry Kite and Fred Narcotic,
has just completed five-stamp mill. The
tunnel is well in the ledge and the ore
looks fine. There is enough ore on the
d''mp to keep the mill constantly busy
for the next two months.
The Keller mine, which was recently
sold to F. A. Garbut of Los Angeles is 4
now making good headway, driving
new tunnel to strike the ledge 700 feet be-
low the old works. Some very wet ground
has been encountered in the progress of
the work, but that embarrassment has
been passed now and work is progressing
again with reasonable speed