Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-29
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Mining Man From Cripple
 Creek Invests Near Fresno
 And May Have Found Bit ter Springs Ledge.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2S.-A rich ] strike has heen, made in the Mnrr r, 2
 Star mine at Badger hill in the old ] Cherokee district, not far from Pat
 terson postoffiee. The specimens l shown are quartz containing crystal l lized bright yellow gold and the | quartz will go several thousand dol
 lars to the ton. The ore is from an
 entirely new ledge, which has been l broken into in crosscut to the west ] of the shaft at a point sixty feet
 down from the collar.
 | That the high Sierras to the east and within easy reach of Fresno are l soon to become a great quartz mining
 district is the opinion of State Sena-
 tor F. D. Smith of Kansas. Senator 1 Smith on this trip inspected sixteen 1 gold claims owned by De Long and others and will acquire a controlling interest in the property, finance it | to the extent of a very large amount of capital and commence mining in terest all over the west He says l that the ore in the sixteen claims as- says from SIP to S5 per ton, is in ! well defined ledges from twelve to thirty-siX inches wide and can be treated at cost of SIPS per ton.
 Gold mining is to be carried on
 right in the heart of Monterey, ana
 the promoters believe they have a
 mine that will pay handsome returns. While sinking a well on the lots in the Withers tract placer gold was i discovered in the sand. The promot- CTS claim that gold can be found oyer
 a large section in that part of the city.
 For some time Williams Ochs, rep resenting a company, has been ne gotiat.ng for the purchase of the Alta
 and the Union Copper mines in the low divide district near Crescent City, and recently the first payment was 1 made. The mines are owned by local people and that they contain rich ore is proved by large shipments having
 been made in early days to Scotland for reduction The discovery of mines in other sections of the state where transportation facilities were better resulted in suspension of work here. With proper machinery for working the ore at the mine the results will prove great. The new company will
 work on an extensive scale.
 The Mida mine, located near Enter prise, has installed ten stamp mill
 with a new process for working the low grade ore. By this process the
 ore instead of going through the con celtrator and amalgamators, will go direct from the batteries to the cyan ide solution and save large per cent of gold which has heretofore been lost.
 The first station has beenl cut in the Crackerjack-Bonan companys big shaft at the 75-foot level and crosscutting is now :n progress. This is the first crosscutting that the Bo- nanZa company has done at this depth, and the result will be observed with great interest by the other par ties owning claims on Bonanza Mountain, as it will practically prove that all the veins are permanent and carry their high values to depth. More of he high grade product of the Bonanza has just been sacked ana there are now something like 300 sacks on the dump, with more being piled up.
 Some remarkably rich specimens of gold ore have been brought to Crack erjack by J. D. Hendricks, who says that the scene of the new strike is in the Ritter Snrings district south of Red Pass. For several years pros pectors have been finding rich float ini the washes around Bitter Springs, but none has ever succeeded in find ing the putcrop. The existence of the float has been known to many in this part of the desert and several outfits have attempted to trace the float to its origin. It is possible that the new find of Hendricks ard part ners may be the long sought for Bit ter Springs ledge. However, the sam pies shown in Crackerjack were full of free gold and evidently ran up into the thousands in value Hendricks departed last week for the scent of his strike after maintaining dis
 erect silence as to it's location.