Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-06
KEWANEE MAY BE
NEXT BIG CAMP
NEW DISTRICT LOOMS UP IN
KESSLER MOUNTAINS
GOLD DISCOVERIES KEEP FORCE
OF MEN WORKING
Several Companies Are Taking Out
ore, Values Running as High
as $1soo-Mlll In oper-
alton

What promises to be the next high
grade gold camp of the great south
west ia now known as Kewanee. This
new district is located in the Kessler
range of mountains in San Bernardino
county. 1t is within seven miles of the
Salt Lake railroad and six miles of the
Santa Fe. The present shipping point
is Gina, Cal.
Very little information has been dis
closed about the discovery of gold at
Kewanee, yet a camp has been in ex-
istence for over twelve months and
number of miners have been constantly
employed, headed by DR.. ]. Singleton
Meade, assayer and chemist, and
Harry Meade, mining engineer, from
Colorado. Some five companies are
operating there at the present time
and all are taking out ore.
The Kewanee Gold Mining company
owns a group OF ten claims located on
the main ledge of the district, and are
employing twenty men. A mill mas re-
Gently been constructed for extracting
the gold. Values upon this property are
A6N-SN -"
opened a six-inch stringer in the main
ore body which assayed S776 a ton.
Since then another stringer has been
found and the values are over $1,000.
This company is taking out high grace
ore and will send out its first shipment
to the Salt Lake smelter next week.
{. Are Quarrying Gold
Kewanee Extension Gold Mining
E.a- n miners
p1oyed, and according to reports from
the mine, are actually quarrylng ore
from the mountain side. A SHAFT is De-
ing sunk upon their property and two
foot vein averages Ss3 ton in gold.
The Shady Side mine, recently bonded
and leased to Guimmel & Stingley for a
Los Angeles corporation, Is now at
work taking out ore and is prospecting
some recently discovered ore chutes
elsewhere upon it's property. This COM
many says 1t has enormous shoWlngs,
and has already piled UP many tons of
ore for shipment. The big ledge of the
Chicho mines runs into its property.
The Meadville Gold Mining company,
owning the West End group, has many
tons of ore already mined and the
values range around the $10O mark per
ton. The property of this company is
located to the west of the big mines OF
the camp and about one mile distant.
Their ores carry high per cent lead
and is a very desirable article and Is
Inuch sought by the shelters, 1t is SAID
The Chicho Gold Mining company, an
organization headed by Way c. West
of Los Angeles, owns about twenty
acres of exceptionally choice mineral
ICED ground at Kewanee. TWO gold
veins have already been opened on the
Chicho mine. Free gold has been
found on the surface and the values
m &1Q0 a ton.
Assay Office Is Opened
A camp and complete assay office
have been established by this COM
psny and q force of miners are now
actively at work sinking a shaft which
has gained a depth of over twenty feet:
This shaft is being sunk alongside OF
a rhyolite dixie, and the vein at the
present depth is over four feet Wides
which Is spotted with high grade ore.
Already rich ore from the shaft is
sacked for shipment. All the rock COM
ing out of the shaft at the present time
mans gold and it is difficult to pick up
q niece of rock on the dump that does
not contain free gold. The second vein
IN this property Is about 40 feet east
of the main shaft. The formation Is
beautiful honeycomb quartz and pans
coarse gold. These veins will be syste-
Ynatically prospected. The property OF
the Chicho Gold Mining company is
completely surrounded by the rich
mines of the district and 1t has been
proved that this mine is located on the
main gold bearing formation OF the dis
trict. At the present time about fifty
miners are employed In and around the
Kewanee mines, and others are coming
in daily.
There does not seem to be the least
doubt but that this new California gold
camp will make good and shortly cause
a stampede into San Demanding
county. Mining experts have examined
the Kewanee district and say that gold
has already been discovered in large
quantities in many places.