Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-21
TEXAS CHIEF
CUTS $500 ORE
RIVERSIDE COUNTY CLAIMS
LOOK GOOD
NEW WAGON ROAD WILL LESSEN
DISTANCE TO PROPERTY
Is In Zone of Gold Park and Twenty
nine Palms DIstrlcts--Whole
Country Is Highly
Minerallzed

f. C. Longnecker, general manager
of the German-American Mining and
Milling company. has Just returned to
the city from the company's property.
His company has done work on three of
its claims. On the Texas Chief, where
most of the work has been done, they
have an incline shaft down now shout
100 feet and have been In ore all the
way. Assays have been made every
few feet, showing that the ore body
runs from $40 to over $500 a ton. The
ore vein is over three feet in width.
With greater depth the management
expect to find richer ore. The property
Is equipped with a hoist and ore cars.
On the No. 10 claim, where not so much
work has been done, "a much higher
grade of ore is found-the ore assaying
from $50 to over $500 ton. This mine
seems to be very promising, and with
more depth the company expect to open
up a large body of ore.
On the Lone Star and Apex claims
some development work has been dons
enough to show that large ore bodies
exist. On the Apex claim the ledge is
twelve feet wide and can be traced for
over 1000 feet on the surface.
This property is in Riverside county.
just south of the San Bernardino
county line and about thirty miles
north of Indio on the Southern Pacific
railroad. A new wagon road is being
opened up which will shorten the dis
lance of the property from Indio to
twenty-three miles. Fifteen miles north
of the German-American property is
the Twenty-Five Palms and Gold Park
district, where some very high grade ore
has been mined. The distance from
Twenty-nine Palms to Banning is about
sixty-five miles. BY way of the Ger
man-Amefican, road the distance is
about forty miles-a saving of twenty
miles travel. The new road will avoid
hills and steep grades, and when COM
pleted much of the traffic will go to
Indio instead of Banning.
Is Highly MineraIized
The whole country is highly mineral
lied and hundreds Of thousands OF dol
lars have been taken out of 1t in a
crude way. Three miles east OF tho
German-American is the Hexahedron
Mining company. They have five
stamp mill and high grade ore. About
six miles east is the Eldorado company:
This concern has done a great deal or
efficient development work and have a
large body or ore blocked out. This
company keeps a force of men at work
the year round.
Four miles southwesterly is the Gold
Acres company. This mine in the past
few years has produced a fortune for
the owners with q two-stamp mill The
now has five-stamp mill at
work. Five miles west is the. Lost
Horse mine, which in times past has
been a big producer. At the present
time this mine has about fifteen men
at work and a ten-stamp mill running.
About midway between the German
American mine and Twenty-nine Palms
is the Desert Queen mine, that has pro-
duced a large amount of money.
Dr. s. II. Kistler of Los Angeles Is
president of the German-American COM
pany. Longnecker says on the various
claims of the company they have 125
tons of high grade ore on the dump
and about $50 tons of ore that Will run
500 or better The company expects to
erect a stamp mill soon. From three 10
ten men are kept employed all the time.
The company Is a close corporation
capitalized for 100000.