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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
BIG MERGER OF ARIZONA
PROPERTIES is EFFECTED
Comanehe and Copper Gulf Join Inter
ests in New Organization-Va-
rous Plants to Be Over
hauled

A deal put through at Bisbee last
week will merge the Comanche Mining
and Smelling company and Copper Gulf
Mining company. A new company is
to be organized with a capital stock
of 100000 or 100000 less than the
present capitalization of the Comanche
company, and an increase of $1,000, 900
over the capitalization of the Copper
Gulf company.
H. b. HoVland and Hoval A. Smith
and their Duluth associates in the Cop
per Gulf Mining company have en-
tered into a deal with the Comanche
whereby a merger of the two proper
ties will be effected.
The capital stocks are to be divided
into 100000 shares of the par value of
$40 each, $4,000 shares to go into the
treasury of the Copper Gulf company,
$4,000 shares to the Comanche COM
pany and $4,000 shares issued on 81
call. The remaining $4,000 shares will
deal the debts of the Comanche are to
be paid in full by the present Comanche
company.
The recognized company will prob
ably take the name of the Copper
Gulf company.
The Comanche company has a capt.
talization of 100000 and the control
has been held at Milwaukee, Wis,
where the principal officers reside.
The deal followed the visit of E. A.
Wayne, the trustee in receivership of
the company, to Duluth and Milwau-
kee for the purpose of effecting a re-
organization of the company.
1t will probably be some months be-
fore the new company can begin oper-
ations at any of its plants owing to
the fact that the entire equipment will
be overhauled and important changes
made.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20

uncovered the frame of what had years
before been strong wooden box
To the trained eye of the prospector
the contents of the box We're not I'M
familiar. They were slabs and ingots
and Jumps of virgin silver, such as
made the Silver King in Pina1 county
one of the great mines of the country
years ago.
Excited by his find, which had
brought him fortune after years of
fruitless search in the hills of Arizona,
Thorton emptied the contents of the
box on the floor of the cave until he
had a pile of silver 1t would take sew
eral men 10 pack away.
BY netting some of the chunks and
estimating the rest, Thorton figured
his find at not less than $4,000. AS
vet he has not removed his wealth
away from Pioneer but will shortly
take it to Globe.
In the early days of Arizona Pioneer
was a thriving silver camp between
1900 and 1900 men being employed in
the hills around the camp. With the
slump in silver it was gradually de-
serted until today there remains of a
once prosperous settlement but one
shack and one man. 1t is on an old
stage road, and that is all that keeps
him there alone.
The theory is that when the silver
mines were working high graders
stole this silver as they worked, hiding
II in the cave to be taken away later.
They never came back.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20

BRITISH SYNDICATE
BUYS AT BALLARAT
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO
BE EXPENDED
Included in the Purchase Are the Mo-
have, Gibraltar, Panamint and
Woodpecker Mines-ore
Is Blocked Out

C. ]. Callahan, a we'll known Los
Angeles engineer, has just returned
from Ballarat, Inyo county, where he
has been examining mining properties
for a British syndicate. He mas pur-
chased for the syndicate the MohaVe'
Gibraltar Panamint and Woodpecker
mines, all located in the Ballarat re-
gion. The Gibraltar is lead PROPOSE
ton, running from so to 70 per cent in
galena, $11 in silver and 81 in gold.
All the mines mentioned were &C
cepted by the British syndicate on MT.
Callahan's examination and report. he
has also made a preliminary survey OF
the proposed new railroad route from
Johannesburg to Ballarat, and prac-
tically completed arrangements with
the Santa Fe to run the line between
these points. A meeting of the rail-
road people and interested parties will
be held in Los Angeles this week to
arrange details.
More than $5,000,000 worth of ore is
on the dumps and blocked out in the
mines mentioned, and will be ready for
shipment over the new railroad. All the
flux for smeltingn including soda ASH
silica, lime, boraX and iron, is found in
the ores. The mines purchased by the
syndicate are rich ones and show as
says of high values. There is much
secrecy of movement and Mr.. Callahan
has been 10th to say very much as to
the details of the purchase. 1t has
been made, however, and means the
expenditure of hundreds of thousands
of dollars. Mr.. Callahan will have
charge of the erection of the smelter,
stamp mills, buildings and machinery
that the syndicate intends to install.
Work will begin in the near future.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
TRAMP CONSOLIDATED
SHOWS STRONG ASSAY
GRAB SAMPLE FROM SACKED ORE
RUNS $445 A TON
Shoot Where Ore Is Being Extracted
Averages Twenty Inches In
Wdth-To Make Ship
ment Soon

Special to The Herald.
RHYOLITE, New, July 19.-The
Tramp Consolidated is showing bet
ter every day as development pro-
crosses. A few days ago Superinten-
dent Charles Garden took a grab sample
from fifty sacks of ore extracted from
the slopes between the 300 and 350-foot
level Thursday morning he received
the return. 1t was $445 a ton.
Garden does not intimate that he
thinks the shipment now being assem-
bled will average this amount, but he
believes 1t will run very much higher
than any ore heretofore shipped from
the property. He says:
TT is practically impossible to get an
equitable sample from the Tramp ore
which we are now taking out. There is
lots of the rock blotched and scanned
with gold, and a chunk of this stuff as
a matter of course will run an assay up.
The grab sample from the sacks, which
returned $445, l thought would repre-
sent as fair an average as 1t was pos
sible to obtain in this way, but 1 am
not trying to make myself believe that
the fifty sacks will yield any such re-
turn. However, I believe that the
present shipment will run somewhat
higher than any previous shipment"
The rich shoot between the 300 and
35O-foot levels on the Denver from
which the ore is being extracted is
averaging twenty inches in width. Over
300 sacks are now on the dump, and
Garden expects to make a shipment
within the next two weeks.
Two shifts are also being worked on
the Tramp tunnel between the Tramp
and Eclipse shafts. A good shipping
grade is also being encountered at this
point. In about 100 feet farther con-
nection will be made with the Tramp
shaft
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
TO PROSPECT PLACER
FIELDS IN SMALL VALLEY
Churn Drill Will Be Worked by Former
Government Engineer and Asso-
ciates-Dredges to Be
Used Later

Thomas Rockhill of Ely is negotiat-
ing for a churn drill that is to be used
in the work of prospecting the placer
fields in Snake valley, east of Osceola
mountain and about three miles from
the town of Blackhorse.
Associated with Rockhill will be Dr.
r. II. Richardson of Ely, Charles w.
Gaty OF Osceola and F. B. Weeks, for
ineriy of the United States geoloSl al
survey, who resigned from his position
to devote his time and efforts to mining
in the district around Osceola.
After the values Of the placer area
have been determined by means Of the
drill, 1t is the expectation to install
fargo dredges such as are in operation
in California near Oroville and other
places. The parties have secured power
rights on Strawberry creek after the
state engineer made a personal exam
nation of the site, which he pronounced
a fine one, and have also secured otner
water rights for the dredging opera
ti0ns
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
OPENS PROMISING MINE
IN MOUNT UNION SECTION
Ella Wick Claim in Hassayampa Dis
trict Carries Good Values in
Gold, Silver, Copper
and Lead

Special to The Herald.
PRESCOTT, Ariz., July 19.-In his
residence OF almost quarter of a CEN
fury in the Mount Union section of the
Hassayampa district, during which he
has been successful in opening many
mining properties which he disposed of
to good advantage, Lutte Wilson now
believes that he Is developing the most
promising mine ever opened on Mount
Union.
In the Ella Wick claim he has struck
ore carrying good values in gold, sill
yer, copper and lead. The new find
was made in the lower tunnel at dis
tance of 100 feet into the mountain.
What he believes to be the same shoot
of ore is uncovered in a tunnel farther
up the mountain and apparently about
It's feet farther ahead on the vein. He
is confident that the ore tapped in the
lower tunnel is the end of the shoot
and intends to push the tunnel ahead
on the vein as fast as possible to de-
termine the size and extent of the
deposit
The ore in the upper tunnel carries
average values of $45 to the ton. The
ore in the lower tunnel is of the same
character, with the exception that 1t is
a heavier sulphide. Wilson was here
find assayed and purchasing supplies.
The Ella Wick claim lies Immediate
ly south of and adjoining the Storm
Cloud mine, in which continuous ore
shoot is opened in a tunnel length. of
1000 feet. AS the lower tunnel is be-
ing pushed ahead the water increases
and the ledge becomes loosen, gradual
ly widening out This is a popularity
of the lodges of the vicinity where ore
bodies are opened.
A very promising ore body was I'M
covered last week in the Carthage
claim, owned by John A. Twiggs and
w. G. Kent. The ore was struck by
miners employed doing assessment
work. 1t is two feet in thickness. car
rying good values in gold.
e. e. Breed also struck some high
grade ore in a claim recently located
by him, named the Bullion. Ore car
rying free gold plainly visible to the
naked eye was struck in shaft at a
depth of ten feet. Breed is now in the
city purchasing supplies to continue
the shaft down on the ledge.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
SIDNEY GROUP MAKES
$4,000 IN TEN DAYS
is ONE OF THE B0NANZAS OF
JOHANNESBURG
Mecuen Mine Ereets Five-Stamp Mill
Near Ell Paso Peak In Rade-
macher Dlstrlct-Water
Is Plentiful
racial to The herald.

rectal to The herald
JOHANNESBURG, July 19.-The Sid
ney group of claims recently acquired
by D. V. A. Williams, the well known
Montana mining operator, is turning
out to be one of the bonanzaS of the
district. The first ten days operations
on this property netted a cleanup of
$4,000, and the yield for the balance If
the month promises to more than
double this. The Sidney showing is re-
markable in view of the small number
of workmen at present employed.
Within a short time the force will be
increased to fifty men, and new, mod
ern machinery installed.
The McCuen Mining and Milling COM
pany has just completed the erection
of a modern five-stamp mill near FL
Paso peak, in the Rademacher district.
Plenty of water Is available at the mill
site, and the company owns several
low grade ore properties in the vicinity.
Many other mills are now in contem-
plation, and the advent of the Owens
River railway through the district rem
ders the transportation of machinery
no longer problem.
F.. M. Wade of the firm of Wade &
Wade returned to Los Angeles after
having spent several days in this yicin-
itv. Mr.. Wade examined several local
properties and was very enthusiastic
over the many good showings encoun-
tered.
Work has been resumed on the Nine
Spot property of Val Schmidt. A new
hosting apparatus is being installed
and E. H. Baldwin will take charge as
sl1perintendent.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
TWO CANANEA FURNACES
BLOW IN AFTER SHUTDOWN
Resumption of Two More Is Expected
in Few Weeks--company
Anxious to Operate
Whole Plant
Snecial to The Herald.

Snecial to The Herald.
BISBEE, Ariz., July 19.-The fur
naces of the Greene Cananea CONSOLE
dated Copper company at Cananea
have started operations. The long
looked-for resumption sent a thrill of
joy through the people of Cananea and
was received with evident satisfaction
by everyone in this section of the
southwest.
Resumption at two other furnaces
is expected within a few weeks. It
is known that controlling interests in
the company are anxious to get the
plant at Cananea In full opera ton as
soon as conditions will warrant. This
resumption, however, will be gradual.
II four of the furnaces are in opera
ton within a month or six weeks ev-
eryone will be satisfied.
The improvements made at Cananea
will enable the company to produce
copper at considerably lower cost than
it did before the shutdown. 1t will also
now have the benefit of lower cost in
considerable of the raw material neces-
sary in the production of copper. While
nothing has ever been officially given
out it has been generally reported that
the Mexican government recently made
certain concessions in the matter of
duties on raw material which it was
necessary to import into Mexico from
the United States.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
WHIPPLE MOUNTAIN CUTS
INTO RICH COPPER VEIN
is CRoSS-CUTTING IN SOLID
QUARTZ ALSO
J. j. Donovan, Who Is at the Mine,
Writes That He Is In a Strong,
Well Defined De-
post

Word has just been received in Los
Angeles of a series of strikes in the
| Whipple mountain mine. J. J. Dono-
van, contractor for the Whipple Noun
tain Gold and Copper Mining company,
writes to A. ]. Richardson at the COM
panys offices in Los Angeles from
Blue Bird camp under date of July IT,,
saying he had cut copper veins show
ing good values.
Upon the strength of the letter the
directors held meeting and decided to
buy in the treasury. stock at 80 cents
share for the purpose of making fur
Their improvements.
Donovan's letter to Richardson is as
follows:
Just line as the team is going in to
Needles tomorrow I have cut the vein
in the north croSscut, shows good cop
per values and looks good, and I am
prosecuting in solid quartz in south
crosscut for the last twenty feet. / am
in big, strong, we'll defined vein. You
should raise the price of stock, as this
Is sure to make mine. If you don't
clean up fortune in this we might as
we'll quit mining. If you had this show
ing in Nevada your stock would be
above par.
81 have crosscut IS feet to the south
and got through the big vein, so I have
started to drift east on the foot wall of
1t. The vein is about 30 feet wide,
most of it looks fine and should carry
high gold values. The foot wall is per-
feet and smooth as glass. 1 never saw
more well defined vein. think it the
mother lode of the whole country.
''Mr. Brownell's company has let a
contract to sink big shaft in this
same vein about a mile away. 1 hear
their shots every day. The Rational
Copper company is putting up build
ings and is going to push things, and
have arranged to ship a carload of ore
from Parker. 1t is working ten men.
The American Eagle is putting up
buildings and getting the mine fixed up
to go ahead. Times should be lively
here this fall"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
Tonopah to Resume Extra Dividend
Beginning with the October Quarter

I September whether or not the 10 pei
cent will be paid, but 1t is certain to
get out and the effect on the stock may
be felt from now on.
This news comes from a source which
can hardly be doubted. 1t was through
practically the same source that II
was announced several weeks In adj
vance of the directors quarterly meet,
ing that the 25 per cent dividend would
be resumed in July, and the Nreport
turned out to be true. II only need be
added that the Information then' as
now. came from Philadelphia.
Another fact is that the mine itself
is just as we'll off today as It was
year ago, Notwithstanding that over
81 900, 600 worth of ore has been re-
moved from it in that time. This is
due to continuation of development
work in the mine, or. to put 1t In an
other way, there has been blocked out on,
mine in the past year, while; in addi-
ton. the quantity of ore in sight is
steadily increasing as development work
progresses. These facts can be vouched
for
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
NORTH STAR LODE IN
YUMA LOOKS PROMISING

Andrew J. Trombo, mining man
from Yuma county, while in Tucson
the other day, spoke encouragingly OF
the mining outlook in that county and
especially of developments in the North
Star lode. This was the original May
hew property and the basis of his pres
ent fortune. With but ten-foot hole
in the ground, Mayhem gave a bond
on the group for 100000, and received
small payment down.
In the meantime, during the life OF
the bond, he continued to sink and had
reached a depth of twenty feet by the
time the bonders were required to
make good. Trouble arose between
them and Mayhem refused to sign up.
Under threat of an attachment on the
property he yielded, but conditioned
the agreement by adding an ADJOINING
claim and raised the price to $S50,0oO.
This was agreed to and the CONTRACT
closed. :.
At this time the main working SMART
is down 15O feet and the ore at the
bottom of the shaft is said to be worth
$3.50 a ton. Between the dlHerent
shafts and drifts it is estimated that
fully $1,500,0O0 worth of ore is plocKeo
ont
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
ORE WORTH So A POUND
is PICKED OFF THE DUMP

The Little Florence dump at Gold
field is being cleaned up with all pos
sible speed, and some very good ore is
being taken out. There is little doubt
that the dump will be worked over
again and the ore will be found to be
rich enough to run through the new
mill of the Goldfield Florence, where it
is estimated a profit can be made on
IS ore. The lease on the dump is not
being worked under Little Florence
management. 1t was sold to a number
of expert dump and ore sorters for a
consideration said to be $4,000. The
sublessees will pay the usual fiat roy
atty to the company owning the
ground. One ton of high grade that is
estimated to run SO a pound has been
picked out. A carload shipment of ore
has already been shipped that went
better than 800. The remainder of the
stuff is being screened. and as it Is
shipped to the mills and samplers an
average value of $50 Is secured.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
PROSPECT FOR OIL IN
ARIZONA, BUT FIND GOLD
speclmen from Ledge Assays $500 in
Equal Parts of Gold and Silver.
Will Ship Surface
Rock

The search for oil near Blair, Ariz.,
is quite likely to develop something
in the way of mineral deposits in un-
suspected places One such instance
has been reported from the vicinity
of Minnesota Springs that, to judge
from samples taken, is likely to prove
a whale. Tony Laguna and couple
Of others ran across a ledge. while
locating oil lands, that looked good
to them, and broke off a few pieces
for testing.
Their surprise may be imagined when
assay returns gave values of about $500
about equally divided between the
white and yellow metals. No time was
lost in getting back to 1t and a num-
Der of claims were located along the
ledge.
IN prospecting around the vicinity
they report finding several tons or
float. ali of which looks as good as
the samples taken, and they assert
there viii be no difficulty in picking
up a good shipment from the surface.
Development work will be started on
the locations in short time.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
SOUTH AFRICA EXPERT
EXAMINES DIAMOND MINE
Finds oroviIIe Blue Ground the Same
as That of South Afrlca-Pipe
Larger Than at KIM
berIy

]. r. Smith of South Africa, an ex-
pert in the diamond mine business,
was in Oroville last week. While there
he inspected the local diamond mine
and is of the opinion that a valuable
strike has been made.
1.-THE formation is blue ground or
kimbelite, if you want to call it such, -
said Mr.. Smith, upon his return. "Dia-
mond miners always call it simply blue
ground. At any rate, you have the
same formation as that in which the
diamonds are found in South Africa,
and that is the important thing. 1t is
for the blue ground that the people
in South Africa look. Once blue
ground is found. the work of floating
a company to mine the ground is easy.
1.-THE lines of the pipe are easily
traceable to one experienced in dia-
mond mining, and / want to say that
YOU have a big proposition here. The
pine is a larger one than that in Kim
berry. It is a big proposition and if
there was nothing else here it would
make Oroville."
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-20
FRENCH CAPITAL
FOR 20 PALMS
SYNDICATE BANKS $250,0oo IN
LOS ANGELES
FUNDS TO BE USED TO DEVELOP
coNsUELo PROPERTY
Mohawl<r Herald, ltalle and Other
Mines Are Sinking for Water.
New Claims Lo-
Gated

The Consuelo Mining companv a
IS, 100000 corporation, has several
groups of claims at the Twentv-nine
Palms. 1t is reported on good author
ity that a French syndicate has de-
posted $250,000 in Los Angeles hank
to develop the Consuelo property. and
development work will begin about
August 1.
Work has begun on the MacDermott
claim of the Mohawk Herald. The
ltalie company is working sixteen men
day and night and taking ont rich ore
all the time. The Italie hoist is on the
ground and will soon be in place.
Inc HeXigon Mining company, Just
southeast of the Anaconda. is sinking
for water and indications are favorable
for finding 1t before long. The Italie
company is also sinking for water and
is now going through wet stratified
sand.
Wilkam McHenry of Los Angeles is
working a group of claims near the
Gold Pack that are showing up we'll.
Burns and Hathaway have several
claims that run high in silver and
galena in Music canyon, a few miles
southeast of Twenty-nine Palms.
Returns with Large Outfit
c. l.. Peters of Chicago has returned
to the Palms with large outfit and is
preparing TO open up his property there.
w. L. Mason, lessee of the Ana
Dulce, Is progressing with the develop
ment work on that property and piline
up shipping ore. Mr.. Mason also re-
ports strike of considerable magni-
ture on the New Orleans claim adtoin-
ing the MacDermott. The ledge on the
MacDermott is four feet wide with a
tale seam on the foot wall CARRYING
high values.
A new strike is reported on property
owned by Tully and company Assays
show ore running $500 a ton taken
from a three-foot ledge
w. e. Johnson, a special officer of
the government, was recently at the
Palms securing water rights and max
ingland allotments to the Indians on
the reservation. Several deputy United
States marshals were with him.
Arrangements are being made by the
United States government to resurvey
the lands at the Palms. Water rights
hitherto claimed by the Southern Pa
cific it is said do not belong to the rail-
road company.
The Mohawk Herald and other min
ing companies hold prior title and will
control the water.
The Horoscope and the Marietta
mining claims have been sold to Ed
ward MacDermott and the Gold Palms
Mining Mercantile and Transportation
company. This new company will soon
begin operations in the line of busi-
ness that it's name implies. The COM
pany intends to build a hotel and run
q line of automobiles in from Ban
ming. This will be of great benefit to
the camp, as it is now hard to reach,
and accommodations are poor.
w, e. Conner has sold for large
consideration five claims that he re-
Gently located. He still owns ten other
claims and intends to begin develop
ment work early in September.