Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-13
GOLDEN HARVEST
MINE IS GOLDEN
PLUCK AND FAITH LINK HANDS
TO SERVE
Pasadena Widows Reap Wealth Which
Comes of Long Waiting and Crowns
PIucky Fight of Seventeen
Years Duration
Pasadena Agency,
n North Raymond Avenue,
Phones: Sunset 1907. Home 2l24.

PASADENA, May IA tale of the
desert sands, a tale Of pluck and faith
linking hands and leading the way to
fortune, q tale of the Golden Harvest
mine and the golden harvest 1t brougnt
to two Pasadena widows, Is the tale
which has written at the end of Its
q last chapter a finis mark OF gold, end
ing one of the strangest paragraphs III
the history of California desert mlning'
it's repulses and its triumphant Sue
cesses.
The story leaked out with the sale
of mining interests owned by the two
Pasadena widows, prominent west SIDE
residents, whose names are Wlthheld,
TO corporation now known as the
Golden Harvest Mining and Milling
company, with headquarters at Yemo,
four miles from ManiX station on the
salt Lake route. The sale of the local
interests in the mining properties has
but recently been concluded, and all the
funds have not yet been paid over
Many years ago prospector wan
dered over the desert near Yemo, long
before the Salt Lake road had fright
ened the lizards and the rattlesnakes
with the demoniac screeching Of its
first big freight mogul and the speed
ing, Gathering roar of its faster pas
senger service. The prospector found
a Qyh6 LlldI lOOhcu 9OOu ~ iiihi',
and he fIecked a few Jumps of the rock
from the face of the vein and assayed
his find. The result was entirely salts
factory. The location notices were
filed and the development work for the
first year done.
Lack of transportation facilities re-
tarded the development of the prop
erty and it was eventually shlfted
about from one owner to another until
i iV,fn fnr,n q
holding equal shares. Each one OF these
four had faith in the mine and kept up
the work of development until death
picked them off one by one. The prop
erty was left by each in turn to the
widows. The four Pasadenans We're
w. u. Masters, w. D. McGilvray, A. w.
Armstrong and DR.. Conger, formerly
a local bank president. The widows,
one after the other, disposed of their
shares until one only was left. with
another Pasadena woman she kept up
the DEVELOPMENT work on the claims
for seventeen years. There were six
claims, and the development work IN
this period of time amounted approx
mately to a total of $4,000.
But the seed that was being sown
year after year, season after season,
was sprouting into the Golden Harvest,
which sold eventually for $4,000. The
deal recently closed involves that sum.
With the advent of the railroad near
the mine, the property at once assumed
an Importance that otherwise Woulo
not have materialized owing to the ex-
treme difficulty in obtaining cheaI
TRANSFORMATION for the ores. The de-
velopment work on the property ex-
posed richer and richer lodes of ore
though the long haul to Daggett or
the Santa Fe made it impossible tc
1uorlr the nronerty without an outlay OF
capital. which the two widows did not
feel justified in making. 1t was case
of putting faith in-the future, sitting
down and waiting for the wealth, held
in the vaults of the mine, to bring
home golden argosy to the two plucky
owners.
Mining experts for the syndicate of
CAPITALISTS who recently purchased the
mine were sent to prospect the ledge,
and the results they announced con-
vinced the capitalists that the property
was worth many times the price asked.
The deal was closed and preparations
made for immediate development. Now
the corporation, a closed one, 1T is
understood, has on the claims a Nilsson
mill of 70 tons capacity, and with $780,
400 tons of ore on the dump, $4,000 tons
of it running from $50 to $100 per ton in
free gold, is gaining the golden har-
vest so long withheld by the windings
of circumstance.
The property has caused furry of
excitement in the little district, among
the San Bernardino county mining
fields. which it leads, and the opening
I'D and working of the vein is only an
other of the successes in development
of old properties WHICH is bringing the
San Bernardino field into prominence
;n the world of mining.