Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30

seemingly no reason why this property
should not be made payer. But miners
real miners-must be at the head of
affairs.
The Echo is in the same condition as the
kid left on the doorstep-waiting for some
person to come along to be picked up
and properly reared. 1t has had the same
good times and the unfortunate vicissi-
| tudes of the others: probably more mis-
| fortune. There is 100-ton a day plant
| on the property and over mile OF de-
velopment work in the shape of tunnels
and drifts. The right man will come
along to pick up the Echo and become
millionaire.
The Karma-AJax, though left to the,
| last Is by no means least In this group.
1t has run the. selfsame gauntlet as the
rest.
Last January Richard Gird o. Tomb
stone, Ariz., fame, Frederick Grundy, the
well-known mining engineer, and Robert
]. Belford, formerly an eastern publisher.
consolidated the Karma group, the Ajax
group, the Extension group ard the Dou-
BILE Standard group; in all nearly 1000
acres of mineralized mountain; under the
name of the Karma-Ajax Consolidated
Mining company, and they succeeded in
getting to join with them George c. Per-
kins. United States senator from Cali
| fornia Selah Chamberlain, capitalist of
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wholesale merchant of San Luis Obspo;
Carroll Allen the well-known member Of
Lawler, Allen, Van Dyke & Jutten OF
Los Angeles, and also John A. Gerner,
the largest owner in the old Karma Min
ing company.
These experienced men began straight
way to block out the mine systematically,
under the supervision of Frederick
Grundy and Richard Grid, and they claim
they now have far more than $1,000,000
that can be profitably milled. The old
mill has been thoroughly renovated, ad-
ditional machinery notwithstanding an
electric plant. The stamps are dropping
and an extraction of over rs per cent. of
the silver and over so per cent. OF the
gold Is made on the frue-vanners and
slime tables. This is less than is expected
soon as the tables are properly adjusted
The process is probably the most econom-
ical known. The place has the hustle of
success and that indescribable air we
| w-we-have-a-bonanza.
| There are about two miles OF work on
] the Karma-Ajax properties. The pay
shoot in the mill level is now over 1000
feet long and is still making good at the
point of the drill. The face of this pay
shoot is almost directly under the mon
ster 19O-foot groupings and the manage
ment expect a junction farther IN OIL
| great richness and width.
! In the upper, or Ajax, tunnel the vein
| is twelve feet to sixteen feet wide, but
the values are lower, probably averaging
from $3.50 to IS; whereas the Karma shoot
averages nearly so.
| In the 160-foot level winze Is sinking
directly under where a quarter of mill
lion of shipping ore was taken out
There are, about five feet of high-grade
ore here, and better is looked for.
To sum up: Here is a camp almost un-
known, that has all the earmarks of be-
ing able to supply millions of dollars of
gold and silver when IN the hands OF
capable management. We believe 1t VIII
be on the map and doing business OF a
profitable nature years hence when many
of the loudly-boomed camps of today are
where they belong--in oblivion.