Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-09
SAN DIEGO
NEW STRIKE
puLzuRA MAY BECOME SCENE
OF ACTIVITY
EXPERTS DECLARE IT A SECOND
CRIPPLE CREEK
Free Milling Ore That May Average
Thirty Dollars a Ton Said
TO Be Found-Two
Lodges

That there is an unusually rich MIN
,nr district close to San Diego is the
oninion of many who have filed claims
on lands close to the little town of Dull
zura. saws the San Diego Union. Ana
in this opinion the claimants appear 10
have the Endorsement of well known
mining expert of Colorado. who arrived
in this city a couple of days ago lor
5he nurpose. it is claimed, of investl
eating the claims for Colorado capital
lists who may become interested III lns
development of the region.
During the past few weeks a large
number of claims have been located
in the district and the filings made
with the county recorder. Apparently
there has been no effort to make the
news generally public, though there
have been rumors of rich strike III
gold ore having been made in the oack
country.
The new district is located about two
ard half miles southeast OF Dulzura
and in an extremely mountainous dis
tr.ct. 1t is not easily reached by team
as the main road ends about one ana
one-half miles from the district, ana II
is necessary to travel over the rough
country for more than mile.
1t is claimed that the ore is free
milling and that it is of unusually high
x1ade. Assays made, 1t is reported,
show values ranging from "a TO st per
ton to as high as ST. per ton. The ave-
rage of these assays, it is claimed VIII
be fully $50 per ton-somethlng excep"
tional in free milling ore.
Kennedy investigates
O. J. Kennedy is the expert who made
an examination of the district. Al
though he will not go into details, Mr..
Kennedy intimated that Colorado peo-
rie are interested in the reports that
have been made by some OF those VINO
have filed on claims.
an my twenty-five years of mining
experience I have learned to grow some
what skep.ical when Il is reported that
a new and rich mining section has been
found he said, before leaving for the
new district. 81 will acknowledge that
I do not expect to find much, in spite
of some of the rosy reports that have
been made. 1t is so easy for person
TO be deceived that l will not be con-
vlnced that there is anything to the
strike until I have seen for myself
A Union reporter accompanied Mr..
Kennedy on his trip to the new dis
trict and was with him during his
rosmings over the territory. 1t was
only a short time after he left the auto
mobile that Mr.. Kennedy began to be-
come quite enthusiastic. After
thorough examination he said:
This certainly looks like a second
Cripple Greek to me. I have never seen
anything that looks so like Cripple
Creek as this. In fact, if it were not
for the brush that covers the sides of
the mountains l would say it was the
Cripple Creek of the early days. The
formations here are, as far as / can
see exactl.- the same as those of the
ing Colorado mining city. The surface
Indications are excellent, but they do
rot amount to much in many instances.
II is quartz that / want to see."
Mr.. Kennedy put in the entire day
investigating the district, and tramped
an estimated length of $500 feet over
two distinct lodges, which, from the out
Groupings, are estimated to be from 800
10 600 feet in width. How much farther
the lodges continue Mr. Kennedy dill
not learn, as he expressed himself as
well satisfied with what he saw.
81 have never in all my experience
seen such porphyry lodges as these"
he said. THE indications are certainly
even more than l could have antici-
pated."
Mr.. Kennedy later found a consider
able quantity of the quartz he was look
ing for, and supplied himself with a
generous quantity of samples upon
which he will later make report.
Numerous location monuments are to
he seen in the district, and it would
appear as though a considerable por-
ton of the locality has been taken up.