Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-28

is ACTIVE
OLD MAN HARTLEYs PROPER
TIES ARE SOLD
NEW COPPER FIND is MADE IN
TEHAMA
Globe and Chloride Quartz Mines Are
Reported Sold to W. H. Pinkston
for one Hundred and FIFTY
Thousand Dollars

| There is unusual activity in copper
mining in several California localities.
Alrng the borders of Merced and Mari
posa counties there is considerable pros
pccting and development work being done
and good results are being obtained s.
M. Pate. who owns several thousand
acres in the Cathey valley neighborhood,
recently sold forty acres, on which there
| IL a copper mine. to Charles and Bowie
Ashworth for $4,000. The operators had
teen working the property under a bond
for that sum and they took enough out
of the mine to pay for It. The ore Is
kauiec by teams to LIE Grand, distance
OF scme fifteen or sixteen miles, and
shipped to reduction works at the bay.
The Pocahontas copper mine, about sew
enteen miles east of LIE Grand, recently
charged hands, or. rather, the lease did.
1t is the property of James Waller Of
LIE Grand. The lessees were Messrs Rob-
ertson and Higgins. They sold their lease
for $4,000. David Ross is superintendent
for the new lessees Extensive improve
ments are being made with a view to
getting out of the mine all there is in 1t.
1t is rich mine. Messrs. Robertson and
Higgins have realized $1700 per carload
for the ore.
Deeds have been filed by which Mrs.
Alice Hartley transfers to the Excelsior
Consolidated Gold Mining company a
number Of mining claims and millsites in
Meadow Lake district, Little York town
ship, which Is in the eastern part of
Nevada county. The properties came to
the woman through the death of her first
husband, "Old Man. Hartley the pioneer
prosrector of Meadow Lake, who died
suddenly many years ago.
Make Sensational Find
One of the most sensational quartz dis
coveries made in Nevada county to date
was the finding last week in the Snow
Point gravel claim of ledge of quartzite
that gives assays of from 81 to $3.50 a
ton, and as result unbounded excite
ment prevails in that locality.
The new owners of the Ethel quartz
mine have ordered dynamo. wires and
a motor, and hereafter the mill and
compressors will be operated oy cleo
tricity generated by water power from
the North Bloomfield ditch. The mine is
to remain under Superintendent Albert
Mailman, who has held that position for
the past three years, and under whose
direction 400 feet of tunnel has been
driven. wines put in and upraises
worked He also had charge of the con-
struction of the ten-stamp nil. The new
owners of the property. Messrs. Kiel and
Greenlaw, expect to spend about 100000
in development work A tunnel will be
driven into the mountain below the pres
ent one for a distance of 700 feet. The
shaft that is being sunk from a point in
the upper tunnel 1900 feet from itssmouth
shows that the vein is constantly increas-
ing in size and values as depth. is at
tanned The new owners of the Ethel
also have an option on the Baltic. In that
property there is a parallel vein to the
Ethel and only 600 feet distant. It has
a crosscut tunnel in about 400 feet and
the vein will be reached in about 1877 feet
more of work. If this property is taken
over by Messrs. Kiel and Greenlaw they
will develop the property with as much
vlgor and to the same exetnt as they are
preparing to do in the Ethel
A new copper mine has been discovered
in this county about five miles from Pas
kenta, and from surface showings it bids
fair to be one of no little Importance.
Assays from surface rock show 1920 in
copper and 81 in gold.
Ten claims have been filed on by Fred
Davis, s. Reist and .Hulse Brothers. and
a force of men is now at work on tun-
rel that will be driven into the mountain
siGe for nearly half mile, and if the
ledge goes down, as indications point, I
there will be an abundance of ore. The
mike is near good road and can be
very easily worked.
Sell Gold Mines
The Globe and the Chloride gold mines,
beth quartz properties, have been sold for
s15O,0Ot to W. H. Pinkston who is on the
ground and has placed Richard James in
charge ais superintendent and general
manager.
The new owner will work the Chloride
and the Globe jointly, for the one is vir-
tually an extension of the other. They
are at a great altitude on Globe noun
tain, near DERRICK, between Canyon creek
and Stuart's fork. They are among the
highest mines in the state. being 5000 feet
above the sea level.
The Globe Is on the north side of the
mountains, and because of the great
depth of the snow in wint r can pc
worked only in the summer. The Chloride
is on the south side of the mountain ana
can be worked from one end Of the year
to the other.
1t is the intention of the new owners TO
so shape the work that both mines car
be worked from the south side and con-
tinuously
The Globe is well equipped. It has
ten-tamp mill and an air compressor
plant. Twenty men have been employed
for year past under the superintendent
of Robert Skinner.
The Chloride, or the Chloride Balley, as
1t is also called is famous mine, TOO.
1t was bought few years ago by -Charies
Sweeny and Homer Wilkins. who worked
1T ur; to four years ago and too out big
moaey From 100 to 15O men We're en-
ployed at one time and the twenty-stamp
mill and cyanide plant were kept on the
GO ali the time. But in time they lost
the pay shoot The mine ceased 70 pro-
duce fabulously and since the plnch-out
Thomas Sweeny, brother OF one OF the
millionaire owners. has kept eight or ten
raen at work, some on development work
and and others taking out ore wherever they
could find 1t.
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