Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-06
"A LEADS IN MINERAL OUTPUT FOR YEAR 1907

superintending operations ana peter
man would be hard to find Inc p[op-
ertv is owned by C. C. Haul Oh san
Francisco.
A remarkably rich strike has peen maui .
IN the Blue Rock claim within a mile OIL
Patterson Nevada county, by two pros
nectors from Nevada state named can
non and Watkins. They have uncovered
a big deposit of tale which pans natlVe
gold very freely and is estimated 10 ruA
several hundred dollars to the ton III Iiie
precious yellow metal.
The tale deposit Is six feet Wioe anu
is gouge matter to vein which incluoes
ledge of free milling quartz which Is
three feet wide.
To all appearances this is the biggest
thing in lode mines that has ever been
struck in the Cherokee district.
Last Mine Located
The scene of the new strike is on the
west rim rock of the old Badger Hill
hydraulic diggings. 1t is practically a
discovery of what is known TO miners
and prospectors as lost mine Ihean-
ing a mine whose existence is suspected
hut remains to be discovered. The quest
for this ledge which fed the rich
Badger Hill placers has been going on
MANY years the first determined enort
to find it being made by Oliver grimm,
now of Forbestown and former resident
of Tuolumne, we'll known in the other
Mother Lode" counties.
Griffin found the quartz ledge about
FIVE years ago and erected a Mexican
arastra upon It. and got enough gold
from his individual labor to make Nv
ing until he sold 1t to f. Broemmel, a
San Francisco business man. The dis
aster of April 1906, interfered with Broem
mers plans for development and the claim
passed into other hands. Cannon ana
Watkins, on coming here this past rail-
introduced the Colorado method of systc-
matte trenching to uncover the extensio
of the Griffin discovery, and very re-
Gently happened upon the stratum of auri-
ferrous gouge in the bottom Of trench
twelve feet deep.
According to the information given out
at Vallejo, Solano county. the troubles
of the Benica people with the smelling
trust have only commenced, for the Gug-
genhems. owners of the American Smelt-
ing company and the plant at Vallejo
Junction. have closed the deal for 1900
acres of land On the bay shore just above
Martinez and Will there erect the great
est smeIter in the world. This means the
abandonment of the 100000 works tha'
were under construction at South San
Francisco.
months that the smelling trust had OPP
lions on vast tracts of land In the vicinity
of Martinez. but it was only recently that
the informato. was given out from any
thing like reliable source.
The Bonanza King mine. near Trinity
Center, has been attached for 5000 by
forty-four miners who claim that that
amount is due them for wages. The mine
is the property of the Treadwell brothers.
who spent $4,000 in equipping it with an
aerial tramway, stamp mill. electric
power plant. office buildings and improved
machinery. The miners want the privi-
lege of running the mine and say they
can make it pay all indebtedness and
leave a good margin to the owners
Il j. A. Brent OF the Quimby mine on New
River. expects to start operations on that
property within a short time. AS soon as
the men can be secured and a favorable
spell of weather experienced the Quimby
will he running full blast again. thus add
ing to the prosperity of the New River
section.