Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-01
HART READY
TO SHIP ORE
DEVELOPMENT SHOWS CAMP TO
BE PERMANENT
LEASE WORKINGS BRING OUT
GOOD VALUES
Pushing the New Region with Con-
servatism, the Promoters Regard
Fortune as Assured-Sloan
Lease Strike

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Special to The Herald
| HART, Cal, March 31.-Finds of
valuable ore continue i'm the claims
that arc being worked, and last night
/ the shaft working in the Sloan lease
on Jumbo ran into rich high grade at
a depth of about thirty-five feet. An
assay has not yet been made. but the
! paintings from the bottom of the shaft
put the estimates at well above $3.50
/ a ton. Hardly a claim is working that
+ is not in ore, and prospects of claims
+ to the west and north of the main
range have resulted i'm surface indica-
/ tions of persistent values. Hart and
/ Hits Foothll and Foothill No. l
showed good paintings. averaging from
So TO $50 for a distance of 200 feet The
! Gray Horse claim owned by Jennings
and Goodwin showed high grade on
the surface The Rose and Blackburn
| lease has come TO the front again with
more rich ore. and the entire camp is
realizing that work on any of the
claims is almost sure 10 bring about
results.
There was a meeting OF the Busi-
ness Mems league of Hart held ut Nor
toms hotel Saturday evening. at which
all of the representative owners. leas
ers and operators were present, to dis
cuss the conditions of the camp and
the action of the several committees
of the league. Fully $50 men were
present.
President II. 6. McCallum of the
league. who has been busy with the
affairs of the camp in Los Angeles.
made Il lengthy report which created
an impression. The Salt Lake railroad
has met the camp half way in the mat
ter of transportation and will aid in
The establishment of an automobile
stage line from Leestalk to Hart, maxi
ing the rate equal to that of the Santa
Fe. which runs closer to the camp. A
siding will be built at Hit. on the
Santa Fe. four miles from Hart, and a
freight house erected at once. The
commissioners of San Bernardino
county have appropriated $1,000 for
road from this station to the camp.
which has already been surveyed and
upon which work will begin at once.
Better time and connections are also
promised.
Ready to Ship Ore
The great subject before the camp,
now is the shipping of the ore nov
sacked or on the dumps. Conserva-
tive men have held off shipment up to
this time lest they might not be able
to keep up the pace set by the first
shipments. but with the continued
production of valuable ore it is ad-
mitted generally that the time has
come to send out the ore and show
the world that Hart has been con-
servative, if anything, about her pos
sessions.
Mr.. McCallum reported having inter-
viewed the Johannesburg, Cal, mill
people. besides one or two others. and
received such encouragement in the
way of rates that ii is certain ore VIII
soon begin to go out from Hart, and
the claims made for the orc produced,
verified by mill return.
None of the claims that has been
considered in the front rank has ret
rogaded in the least. on the Big Chief
property the 500-foot tunnel was start
ed last week and will pierce the noun
tain front west to east, cutting three
known veins at depths varying from
$50 to 500 feet. The shaft is down
twenty-five feet and continues to show
high-grade ore.
driving their 350-foot tunnel, which is
expected to cut four lodges, the last
at about $50 feet depth.
Superintendent Hall of the Quartette
Mining company of Searchlight, which
recently bought the Jumbo group, is
in Hart with shipment of timber and
tools for the main shaft. which is To-
Gated ana DelIG IuSlltu uONlI WIN
three shifts working and good ore
showing all the way. Orc from this
mine will probably he shipped to the
Searchlight mills within a few days.
Twin Peaks continues to develop
new finds. and in what was thought TO
be the foot wall there was found last
week some very high grade ore. The
double compartment shaft in this claim
is down forty feet and runs milling ore
all the was.
Work on Leases
The Todhunter lease is still driving
in. and will upraise for the shaft after
going about twenty-five feet more;
The ground is already taking on good
color and within a few days they eX-
pect to strike the ledge.
On the Stampher lease, Piute Belle
the shaft is down fifty feet. and they
are now drifting north and south. with
the latter drift showing good values
Mcguire and Mahana are in sixty feet
with their tunnel on ORC Belle No. /
and have well-defined lead assaying
better than 500 per ton, while they
struck blind lead that went $425 by
assay. They will come further down
the hill, sink and cross-cut for the
ledge.
The Pfunder lease on ORC No. l is
cross-cutting from the f1fty-foot level
to catch well-defined vein east of the
shaft which traverses the Pfunder
ground and the Big Chief. Manager
Pfunder will sink to the 100-foot level
as soon as he cuts into the vein.
Bevere, Barrow and Furrow have
started a shaft on Rambler, which ad-
Joins Jumbo and Clapper No, B.
Trenchiug showed good surface values
Taken altogether, the work is pro-
crossing steadily and satisfactorily
and none of the workers express the
slightest doubt of successful results.
From ten to fifteen new people are
coming i'm every day and the demand
for real estate and mining property is
strong, with firm holdings on the part
of owners. There has been neither
robbery nor row in the camp since its
birth. and business in the town is
steadily increasing.
ORGANIZED LABOR ELECTS