Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-22
SURFACE WEALTH
IN SLATE RANCE
BONANZA DISCOVERIES BY
PROF. J. B. FARLEY
Result of Six Years of Persistent Toll
in San Bernardino County.
Values Run to $4,000
Ton

Professor John B. Farley and his as
sociates from all accounts may be listed
among the copper and gold kings of the
world.
Recent discoveries in the Slate range
in San Bernardino county are of a
sensational character.
Professor Farley and his associates
after six years of patient search report
that they have struck the biggest sur
face prospect in the history of the
southwestern desert. Prof. Farley ex-
hibitS in confirmation of his statement
300 pounds of rock showing free gold in
handfuls and assaying 1895 ounces
gold, 250 ounces silver and 2S per cent
lead. Specimens from the surface GER
tainly are rich enough to inspire the
confidence which the lucky gold hunters
manifest.
Farley tells an interesting story of
the find. In 1901 he became con-
vinced that there was good mining
ground in the Slate range, but he was
not miner and did not know how to
prospect for ore. In May, 1901, Earley
placed want advertisement in about
these terms: "Wanted-Old prospector
who understands the desert" An old
miner responded and was engaged by
Farley to accompany him to the Slate
range in the northwest corner of San
Bernardino county. On February %,
1902, they found, about half a mile from
Lone Willow spring, piece of float
weighing thirty-five pounds which car
ried about six pounds of metal and was
estimated to be worth from $500 to
$4,000 intrinsically and much more as a
specimen.
Tracing the Float
Since that time Farley and others
have been trying to trace that float
back to the ledge. The old prospector
became discouraged and sold out his
interest in most of the claims located
during the search, but Farley kept at
1T and associated with himself and
partners ]. w. Brown, an Arizona
miner of experience. Brown prospected
the district thoroughly finding many
good veins. and a few days ago he
struck vein exactly corresponding to
the float in a large dixie that cuts the
mountain on northwest and southeast
strike. The 300 pounds of specimen ore
was taken from a four-foot vein close
to the surface.
Farley describes the find as a quartz
ledge between walls of slate and por-
phyry and says the ore is a lead car
Donate. carrying free gold and ruby sill
yer, similar to the ores of Cripple
Creek and Coolgardie. A mile and a
half west of the dixie are found veins
of hematite ore, showing good values.
and mile further west is vein giving
assays of 1857.
On March II the Slate range mining
district was reorganized with Carroll
d. Parrish as recorder, and the Arizona
law requiring ten feet of intention
work within ninety days after location
was adopted as the rule of the district.
Over 800 Claims
Farley and his fifty associates have
about 300 claims, on most of which
they have done assessment work, and
have established Amity camp in Burro
canyon, about two miles west OF Lone
Willow spring. Abundance of good
water is obtained from numerous
springs developed by the prospectors
The camp is about sixty-fve miles by
wagon road from Barstow and forty
five miles from Johannesburg. There is
a shaft $50 feet on the Amity claim and
the Green brothers of Pasadena have
fifty-foot shaft IN good ore in a
lease on the Beluga.
\ Among those who have claims and
are operating in the district are
Thomas e. Teegarden, f. w. Teegar-
den, S. w. Parrish, John w. Keeney,
Rosa Phillips, G.. N. Ashworth, l. w.
Brown, John II. Spencer r. M. Evans,
Hatch, William Cheney, Dean q Jones
and the Gold Zone, Royal Flush, Mar
garita, Beluga, Amity and Black
Knight companies. Farley SAYS there
is large area of the Slate range still
unprospected.