Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-21
RIO PINTO
is FAMOUS
ONION VALLEY STARTS WORK
WITH vIeoR
WINeFIELD CLOSES ANOTHER
DEAL
Western Zinc People Are Shipping Ore
to San Francisco Which AS
says Up to $1,000 Per
Ton

If had the Rio Pinto 1 wouldn't
trade 1t for the Shoshone in this camp"
ago. ~" N's
The Rio Pinto" continued Mr.. Gray.
was inlned by white men and Mexicans
' III the seventies. l heard about 1t first
from a fellow by the name of Antone
oahchez Oh Aurora, where I was then
operating, In 1876. The Mexicans had
tne IDEA that they could arastra the Rio
PINTO ore, which is silver, but they found
thaI roasting was not sufficient to secure
chiorloe OF silver, which is the only
form that will amalgam with the white
metal so the Mexicans, after building
| one arastra, abandoned two others that
were In process of construction. The
men would work until they accumulated
n1teen OF twenty tons of ore and then
| they would pack with burros and mules
to point about ten miles from the Rio
PINTO where they loaded 1t on wagons
| and took the ore to Swansea, now known
as Keeler. don't know where the ore
went, but / think 1t went to the Shelby
smelling works Of w. G. Ralston. At
| that time M. w. Belshaw ran a smelter
at Cerro Gordo. Mr.. Nadeau, the Los
Angeles hotel man, used to handle the
| ore OF the Mexicans at Swansea
Mr.. Gray is an old California miner
and prospected for several months with
| Governor Blaisdell and Warren H
Myers of old Virginia City. GRAY was
for long time connected with the
famous Benton mine in Mono county.
Cal, and says the Rio Pinto ore in the
| Ubehebe district is similar to the min
eral of old Benton.
! The Ubehebe Mining company, of
which ]. A. Small, cashier of the John
S. Cook bank in Rhyolite, is president,
will at once institute vigorous cam
paign of development at the Rio Pinto
| The Onion Valley mining district is be-
Ing heard from again with good re-
ports after a long period of inactivity
The district includes Poorman's Creek.
! Sawpit, Richmond Hill and Washing
| ton HILL
| Development work is progressing at
the Turner Brothers and the Fred KEEL
| ley properties, both quartz, and both
new discoveries. The ore veins are in
| creasing in value as the work proceeds
| and the good reports from the proper
ties have caused mining men from all
| directions to visit the scene with view
to locating or buying. Many claims
| have been staked out in the vicinity.
New Workers Buy
| At Crescent Hill recently three quartz
| locations were sold to New York par
ties for $4,000 and extensive prepara-
| tions are now being made to open up
| the properties and equip them so they
| can DC WOTheQ u DtSL advantage. AS
says here run to $50 to the ton.
The developments made by the num-
erous tunnels, which were run on the
Washington Hill on the east side and
Sawpit on the west to reach the gravel
underlying the heavy lava cap. have
demonstrated that the work on either
| side has been done on the two rims OF
| the back channels-the center or bot
tom of which has not been reached from
either side. The apex Of what is called
the Washington Hill channel is heavily
lava capped for about 800 feet at the
deepest point. The longest tunnel run
ming into this ridge Is the Buckeye
which is 1900 feet.
The Mayfower has been idle for
twenty-five years, on account OF It's
gravel being cemented. When exposed
| to the elements for years 1t would not
slack, and on this account could not
be successfully worked. Samples now
on the dump are In the same condition
as when left there twenty-five years
ago. In the upraise in tunnels and
crosscuts of which there are several,
the drifts stand as they were left, snow
| ing as fine bank of blue gravel as q
miner ever looked at, which some day
will be worked by the mill process, as
| are many other mines In Cailfornia To-
| day.
| r. e. Ware has bonded the Lecompton,
Treadwell, Freedom and Daybreak mines
at Nevada City. Ware announces tnat ne
intends to acquire four more valuapie
properties adjoining them and by next
spring will put 100 men at work on me
mines. which are now idle. Ware repre-
sents the Bankers Trust company COM
posed in the main of Kansas men, Inc
new company win be known as the Ls-
compton Consolidated. If the mines make
sufficient showing Ware plans TO sink
a central shaft through all OF them. At
present the property Is equipped win
| 10-stamp mill, hoisting and pumping plant
and the shaft is down 500 feet The Le-
compton mine has a record OF l,ooV WO.
Crosscuts will be run at the 800 ana oVo
tlevels to strike any ledges In the Uay
Tbreak. The shaft on the latter Will pe
continued at once and crosscuts WIN pe
run into the hill to tap some OF tne rich
ore bodies In the Freedom claim'
Placer Promise
Last week, an agent Of George wing
| field closed a deal with the owner oi ny
old Cook ranch, near Auburn, Cai', iianu ~,
ing him check for $25.000 to pay for tne
nlace and taking possession. The ranch
consists of about 800 acres in OLD prohen-
down fruit trees. with q dllapioateu
house and barn on 1t. 1t has just leaheu
out that the lucky Nevada mlnins inan
believes he has secured a hidden lieasure
| In the old river channel winch runs
through the place. .,u
Several weeks ago Wirgheld man WIS.
tied Auburn, and in a game OF caros at
the hotel learned the story OF the won
derfuliy rich placer gold once taken IN
the the old channed by the spaniards, who
lost the pay streak and abandoned the
property. He inspected the property care,
fully, later returned with ssx expep's oeo sh ana
last week handed over the $4,000 cneck,
giving as his reason for paying the big
value that the ranch was on the route
surveyed by the Southern Pacihc to con-
t seI ,,,.h tha tunnel through the high
Sierra. 1t is understood that Wingheld
viii soon send crew OF men 70 start
searching for the gold-bearing streak.
Several tons of ore are being hauled by
the western Zinc company through Or
anee now every day. This ore assays
we'll we'll IN % to 5000 per ton and is exceedingly
| plentiful 80 far. ,.
q "a NOT considered necessary to do con-
oentrating at their works In Silverado
CANYON. SO they ship the rock to sar
Francisco, where it can be handled more
economically.
started up In the near future. The COM