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Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
WILD HORSE CANYON is
NEW SCENE OF EXCITEMENT

SEVEN TROUGHS, May 31.--Wild
Horse canyon is again the scene of ex-
citement following high grade sur
face discovery on the lease on the
Golden Horse Shoe let few days ago
to Messrs Morrison and Moulter of
Mazuma.
A few days trenching sufficed to un-
cover as rich surface showing as the
Golden Horse Shoe has yet revealed.
Specimens from the latest find literally
filled with nuggets of gold, are being
shown at Mazuma and Seven Troughs.
Some of them are of a size to indicate
a very substantial streak of high grade.
The vein shows great strength at the
point of the discovery and a consider
able width of it pans. The excessively
rich rock occurs in parallel stringers.
The Golden Horse Shoe vein has now
ben traced for nearly half mile. the
latest extension being to the south al
most into the Tomboy grounds. Vice
President G. l.. Jordan of the Tomboy
announced a few days ago that this
vein had been traced to within fifty
feet of the Tomboy north line and that
ten men were employed by the COM
pany to uncover it OH the Tomboy ter
ritory
At the North Pole, adjoining the Wild
Bull, the vein has been penetrated
eight feet on the 150-foot level and sc
far is all milling ore worth over $50 a
ton. A sensation Is looked for when
the shipping streak on the opposite
wall is reached.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
CHICAGO MAN WILL BUY
MINE IN MOOR DISTRICT

j. r. Nicholson, superintendent of the
Santa Ana mine, two and one-half
miles west of the Hualapai claims, in
the Moor district, has just returned
from the property, where he took l.. j.
Shirley, Chicago gentleman. on an
inspection trip, says the Phoenix Ga
zette. Mr.. Shirley was looking over the
mine with view to investing, and is
more than satisfied with what he saw
He will soon become one of the princi-
pal stockholders of the company.
He found the main shaft al the Santa
Ana down 220 feet. with a fifty-foct
cross-cut at the 175-foot level. In the
upper cross-cut there is a nine-foot
vein of ore running 10 per cent in cop
per. There is also a great deal of rich
rock uncovered at the lower level. The
Santa Ana has every prospect of be-
coming one of the richest mines in Ari-
zona. While it may not become a sec
ond United Verde or Copper Queen, it
is sure to develop into a money making
proposition.
Mr.. Nicholson stated to the Gazette
yesterday that the entire Moor district
is lively and going ahead rapidly. The
Hualapai company, which has the big
gest property in that section, is work
ing small gang of men and good in
dications are being uncovered.
The road between Phoenix and the
Moor district is much better than it
ever was before. The board of super
visors, recognizing the Importance of
the road, has had a small force of men
at work on the highway for some time
past. Foreman Toney has done great
work. considering his limited force.
Just now he is a short distance this side
OF New River station.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
BROWNE CLAIMS ARE
SOLD TO ANGELENOS
First Sale of the New Region Inoi=
Gates High Regard of Mining
World for Its
Value

DULZURA, May 31.-What is pracu-
cally the first sale of mining claims 10
be made since the oneida district was
opened up, some three months ago, was
conducted Wednesday when {. Il.
Browne, foreman of the. Buckhorn MIN
ing company, disposed of two of his
holdings for a consideration of $4,000.
Los Angeles people are the buyers, and
while the papers have been signed the
names of the new owners are being
withheld for the present
1t is stated by those who know
something of the deal that the buyers
of the Browne claims, which are To-
Gated near the Buckhorn and Eagle
groups, intend TO begin work on them
within a shart time. Browne rendered
his resignation as foreman of the
Buckhorn outfit and will go to work on
some of his other claims at once. lie
is highly elated over the sale, and de-
clares the prospects are good for a
lively summer in that particular sec
ton of the district.
Mining men from all parts of the
west are onstantly arriving here 10 &c
over the country, and hardly day
passes but what some optimistic re-
mort is sent out. Prospectors' camps
are scattered through every gulch ano
on almost every hillside. 1t is stated
nv mining men who have been in the
district for some time that there are
between twelve and fifteen outfits
working in different parts of the dis
trict
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01

PALMS Is
A WINNER, SAYS WARD
Predicts. That Big Boom VIII strike
the Camp and Send Prices
Soaring to the
Skies

e. E. Ward, just in from the Twenty-
nine Palms country, is enthusiastic az
to the outlook there. He says 1t won
be long before boom strikes tnat
camp that will surprise the natives; ne
is largely interested in Mohawk-Her-
aid stock and refuses to sell at any
price. He also owns other property at
the Palms and believes that thihss
are destined to go up and make Ior-
tune for all Interested there: MT.
Ward is resident of Cotton ana KNOWS
what is taking place. He Is thorough
mining man.
Mr.. Ward further said:
II believe the Palms district VIII pe
winner. l have carefully examined
1t and satisfied myself. l have satis-
fed myself and invested my time and
money. Any one who knows me VIII
say that / am neither tenderfoot nor
fool. l think the Palms country is
a winner"
A man of the name of S. Gates-a
Black Hills prospector-has located
three claims in the Palms district. He
says that 1t is the best ground he
ever struck. He found paying ore on
the surface.
w. T. Mawn of the Ana Dulce reports
that he is still digging and taking out
paying ore.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
FLUXlNG ORES ARE NEAR
GOLDFIELD IN ABUNDANCE

GOLDFIELD. May 81. - Immense
bodies of fiuxing ores. just the kind to
mix with the silica rock from the Gold
field district, are lying almost dormant
in the districts of Ubehebe, Palmetto
and Sylvania, awaiting only cheap
transportation to give the section a
first position by leaps and bounds.
The extent of the ore bodies is said to
be almost unbelievable, and those who
have carefully inspected the formation
and the surrounding country are eX-
treme optimists regarding the future of
that district.
w. A. johnson, the mining man and
expert, has just returned from the three
places named, and is convinced beyond
doubt that all of them will turn out to
be whales.
LAS producers of f1uxing ore carrying
silver, lead, copper and gold" said he,
"they will astonish the world. Cheap
transportation to some smelter is
needed however. The ore is there all
right, and in Veritabie mountains, and
it Is the very thing to mix with the
silica ores of the Goldfield district.
Surveys have been made to connect
with both the Las Vegas & Tonopah
and the TideWater roads. At least one
Is sure to be built, and the route will
be on the north side of Gold mountain.
Such new camps as Hornsilver and the
discoveries made in that section Will
not be overlooked. 1t is an immense
mineral country, and in a few years all
of us will recognize that fact
I'm certain portions of the country
that I inspected" continued Mr.. John
son. 1.-The formation is similar to that
of Leadville, and another such prolific
country will probably result. The only
difference l see is that the ore carries
copper values. as well as silver, lead
and gold"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
ORD MOUNTAIN MINE
READY FOR PRODUCTION
Equipment to Be Installed in Thirty
Days and Large Ore Body
viii Be Avail
able

The Ord Mountain Mining company,
Los Angeles corporation, of which
George Hassan is president. has
equipped itself for the work of pro-
duction. Last week the Pacific ore
testing works shipped to it ten-stamp
MILL which will be erected at once,
and the mine placed on a productive
basis in thirty days.
This company has been prosecuting
it's development for eighteen months
and has everything that Justifies great
expectation. The mine is a short haul
from Daggett (only eleven miles,, has
ore that averages close to $40 and has
many streaks that will run in excess
of $780, 1t has two thousand tons on
the dump and a fine ore body at depth.
The shaft is 255 feet deep. but the
drifting is being done at the one and
two hundred foot levels. A we'll APP
pointed camp is established and the
business we'll established with enough
ore blocked out to run the mill for two
years. Its equipment includes modern
hoisting machinery and engines, con-
centrator and air pipes.
The company has an office at 624 H.
w. Hellman building.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
WEST EXTENSION HAS
ONE FOOT OF $4,000 ORE

RHYOLITE, May 31.-The West Ex
tension of Bullfrog has one foot of ore
on the foot wall of the south drift
which Superintendent Len P. McGarry
estimates will average $4,000. Mr. Nc
Garry is familiar with the character
of the ore from the numerous assays
which he has had made of it, and his
estimate is probably in the vicinity.
The richness of the ore is patent to
the unaided ledge. Free gold is scat
tered all over it, and besides this it
carries a substantial content in silver.
In addition to the work being done
in this locality. known as the foot wall
drift Superintendent McGarry is de-
veloping at two other places in the
mine. The west crosscut from the 150-
foot level is in 220 feet, and is being
pushed ahead. The opening will ave-
rage milling ore for this entire dis
tance. Two or three-foot leads are be-
ing cut and Mr. McGarry says they
will return about $50 to the ton.
The south crosscut from the same
level is in forty-five feet and is ad-
vancing at the rate Of six feet shift.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
CONCRETE TlMBERING
Is BOON TO MINING
Shepard Process Solves a Problem in
Engineering Economics That Is
lmportant-lncreases Ten-
sile Strength

1t is a lamentable fact that timber
is getting scarcer each year In this
country and therefore more expensive
i'm some localities too expensive TOT
general use. Few mines of any magnl-
tude exist that do not have to use
more or less heavy timber In large
quantities Mine timbering is a prob
lem that has taxed the wisdom. ana
ingenuity of the most eminent mining
engineers to the utmost, and even yet
the problem remains unsolved.
Some time ago Darwin w. Shepard,
a well known and very practical min
ing man of Denver, conceived the idea
of using cement to reinforce mine tim
bers. After much careful study and
many experiments Mr.. Shepard solved
the problem. His process is new
application of we'll known principle
the steel truss-and makes 1t possible
to construct cement timbers one-half
the size of ordinary wood in present
use with twice its tensile strength
Another remarkable fact about the
Shepard process Is that the timbers
grow stronger with age. They Will
last for ages and nothing short of
landslide or an earthquake can de-
stroy them. No air can reach the
wood and the elements of fire, water
and decay do not affect the timber.
II is the most economical process yet
discovered for the mine owner anc
builder. 1t is more easily handled
saves freight, expensive charges FOL
timber and many annoying and incon-
venient delays.
The Shepard process marks an epocf
in the vast underground workings o.
our great mines. 1t makes mine safe
and permanent. Many of the dangers
hitherto incidental o mines VIII be
eliminated. There will be no more rot
ting and crushing of timbers; no more
dangerous 'cave-ins;" no more expen'
sive jobs of taking out old decayec
timbers and replacing them. When the
Shenard method is used mine is tim
bered in such a manner that 1t VIII
stay timbered, and remain strong an6
permanent to the end of time.
His patent, it is said. is the first on'
ever granted by the Unietd States fo
this kind of work and IL has attracted
much favorable comment, especiall,
from engineers and expert under
ground mining men.
A company has been formed know
as 1.-The Shepard Cement Mine Timbe
company" with ample capital to con
duct the business. Considering tn
scarcity of timber in the southwes
| and on the desert this company ha
opened an office at 629 H. w. Hellmal
building, Los Angeles, for the conven
ience of southwest mining men. TIL
concern ought to Id probably vii
succeed o. B. Steen, E. NJ, an emf
nent man in two professions, Is con
sulting engineer and in charge of tn
work here
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
DEVELOPMENT WORK
IS TO BE EXTENDED
ORO BELLE CLAIMS AT HART
THE SCENE
Expert Examination Leads Duluth
Capitalist to Provide Money for
Rapid Exploration Work.
Hart Still Booming
special 20 The Herald.

special 20 The Herald
HART, Cal, May S1.-A campaign of
extensive development work will be
started Immediately by the Orc Belle
Mines company. Thomas A. Merritt, d
prominent Duluth, Mimi, capitalist,
and A E. Seaman. the we'll known
geologist of the Michigan School of
Mines have been in the district the
past week making an exhaustive exam
ination of the holdings of the company
which consists of the ORC Belle and orc
Belle Fraction, adjoining the original
strike on the east A deep shaft and a
long tunnel will be started within the
next few days, as it is understood the
inspection of the property by Messrs.
Merritt and Seaman has resulted in the
decision to prosecute developments as
quickly as possible. Associated with
Mr.. Merritt in the ORC Belle Mines
company are a number of well known
Duluth capitalists.
The tunnel being driven by Hart &
Hit on ORC Belle No. is again the
scene of another sensational strike.
After passing through twelve feet of
$40 ore the working has been encoun-
tering rich stringers about eighteen
inches apart. Four of these seams run
from one-half inch to four inches in
mated with free gold, which brings up
the average of the whole to about $40
per ton Besides these high grade
stringers the tunnel broke into two
feet of ore last Saturday, averaging
800 to the ton. In all there is now
showing in this tunnel over thirty feet
of $40 ore. Portions of this monster
vein runs into the hundreds and even
thousands. Drifting has been started
and regular shipments will be main
tained shortly
Two shifts are making rapid progress
in driving the long development tun-
nell from the west side of the mountain
at the Big Chief lease on the Orc. 1t
has now reached a distance of 180 feet
and is destined to cut the rich ore body
exposed in the shaft at a depth OF
about $50 feet and the ledge opened in
the upper tunnel at a depth of approx
inately 400 feet. The Pfunder lease
will also be worked through this tun-
mel, giving the latter a depth of over
200 feet under the vein, exposing four
cen feet of S22 ore in the upper work
ing of this leasehold.
The Quartette shaft has reached q
depth of 125 feet and will go to the
20O-fo mark before crosscutting com
mences.
Hugh w. Nelson and George A. Mel.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
New Members Elected

At the last meeting of the board of
directors of Los Angeles chamber of
mines the following were elected to
membership: Stebbins Dry Concentra-
tor company, dry concentrating ma
chinery, 92S-930 Central avenue; e. J..
Elson company, printers and engravers,
1211a South Broadway; Robert Marsh,
real estate, 140 West Fifth street; A. b.
Waddingham, mining engineer. $40
Tajo building; Broadway department
store, Fourth and Broadway; G. A.
Garfield, oil, 631 Citizens National
Bank building; Bekins Van and Storage
company, Martin Bekins, 140 South
Broadway; Dennis Gordon company,
oil producers, brokers. real estate, 226-
22s Security building; G. r. Averill,
crude oil and distillates, 301 Citizens
National Bank building.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
1uLLFRoG GOLD BAR
MUST. MEET $4,000

The Bullfrog Gold Bar company IS in
distress which in all probability will be
straightened out at the next meeting
of stockholders. A great deal of work
has been done on the ground, and wide
bodies of low grade ore have been en-
countered A mill in course of erection
has been found too small to handle the
product at profit. While the work OF
development has been diligently prose-
cuted ever since the company was or
ganized there has been no market for
fhe sale of the treasury stock, and the
money to continue, equal to 100000, has
been advanced by LOTUS & Davis. The
date of the stockholders meeting has
not vet been set.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
JASPER MINES TO BE
WORKED IN EARNEST
San Diego County's Celebrated De-
posits Will Be Marketed by COM
pany-ValuabIe for Interior
characterization

SAN DIEGO, May 31.-Expensive
new machinery has been ordered to
work the first large output of jasper
mined by the Jasperine Mining COM
pany of this city. Part of the cutting,
polishing and quarrying apparatus has
already arrived, and a new mining in
dustry FOR San Diego is well launched.
For nearly year the Jasperine Him
ing company, of which DR.. C. C. Vaile
Is president, ]. F. Harsch is secretary,
and Charles Gordon and w. Nicholson
directors, nas been strangely s,iont
about the mountain of jasper which
was discovered by chance twenty yeaIs
ago in the Donahue gold mining dis
trict near DulZura, and not until four
teen months ago has a company been
formed to mine the valuable product.
Now the company is about to tell the
world of the valuable deposit of what
Prof. Kunz, discoverer of kunzite, de-
scribed as the only genuine jasper de-
posit in the west.
Though one shoulder of the extensive
hill of pasper is of finer color and grain
than the remainder, practically the
whole of the small mountain contains
jasper. Exquisitely beautiful speci-
mems have been polished and will be
presented to the chamber of commerce
within a few days by DR.. Vale.
Streaks of red, brown, green and yell
low Jasper make the valuable stone
one of the finest materials for the maxi
ing of fine mantels, cabinet fronts and
office fixtures. This material though
costing a trifie more than the excellent
quality of onyx which is brought from
Mexico to be finished here by another
company, is expected to serve the same
purpose.
About fifteen acres of the mountain
of jasper have been tested, and from
all places exquisite designs in the stone
have come to light The Jasper Min
ing company soon expects to vie with
the mines of the Donahue field in the
matter of value of it's product. Other
sections of the district will doubtless
be prospected for other deposits of
iasper
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01

son of Los Angeles last week purchased
the Foothills and Foothills No, l from
Hart & Hit for substantial consider
alton. The Nelson's are former Gold
field operators, where they made con-
siderable money in mining. Work mas
already been started at the Foothllis'
and a shaft is being sent down to the
1OO-foot level. The ledge outcrops for
a distance of 900 feet and the shaft Is
in s35 values, the vein being two feet
in width. This ore will be shipped 10
A Searchlight mill for treatment.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
PICK UP CLAIMS IN
VIRGINIA DALE DISTRICT

Location notices were filed day or
two ago in the San Bernardino county
recorders office for six claims in the
Virginia Dale district just east of the
Twenty-nine Palms. The claims We're
located by A. F. Tully, William F.
Jones, w. M. Tully and A. M. Tully.
The Dale district and Palms district
are practically one in formation. The
Dale mine has taken out many hundred
thousand dollars. II was named after
Virginia Dale. the first white child
born in America.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01

"Shorty" Harris Has Good Thing

shorty" Harris returned to Rhyo-
lite a few days ago from Wingate
Pass, where he, Mike Lane, Ihomas
McNulty. the Kennedy brothers and
Row Newton own a group of mining
claims known as the Gold Links. They
have a shaft down twenty-five feet and
an average of the bottom, according
to shorty" returned $40 in gold, "A
ounces in silver and 64 per cent lead.
Picked samples have gone as high as
eS00
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
eoIdfleld veIvet Down 4oo Feet

The Goldfeld Velvet lease is down 400
feet and sinking for the 500-foot point
Drifting is in progress on the 400.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01

Consolidated 600 tons daily at $40. S24 900
Portland mine 800 tons daily at $50. 6o0o
Homestead mine 1900 tons daily at 81 $4,000
TreadmiIl mine 5000 tons daily mt So lo,ooo
The sun., 1908-05-22
CHILDREN SING For EMPEROR
And Dance Too ~ 900 Of Them Call on
Francis Joseph.

Special Gable Despatch 10 THE SUN.
VIENNA, May 2l.-Eighty-two thousand
Viennese school children drawn up in the
imperial park OF the Palace Of Schoen-
brunn gave an ovation to-day to the Emperor
Francis Joseph. who stood upon balcony
Of the palace with members Of his family
and court attaches.
The school girls were bareheaded and were
dressed In white. with sashes of black and
yellow. The boys wore ared. with white
scarfs. .a.
In front OF the army OF children stood a
choir Of 1000. While the choir sang, 24O
children. twelve from each district of the
city. attired in the costumes Of different
periods, danced
The demonstration was organized as the
school children's commemoraton Of his
Majesty's jubilee. the celebrations of which
in accordance with the Emperor's wish
are being everywhere directed az far as
possible to the promotion Of the welfare
OF the children Of the empire.
In thanking the Burgomaster for to-day's
display the Emperor said:
Il find children the loveliest things in
the world. The older / grow the more
love them"
The sun., 1908-05-22

their machines in their laps 80 that the
rats will have more room to play.
On Thursday last one girl laughed 30
heartily over the antics OF a gray rat that
was none other than Elmer himself that
she had to 60 home for the rest of the day
to regain her composure. George and Isaiah
and Josiah In the meantime hive taken on
bit OF "A Crouch because Elmer and Mi
gnonette and the other rats devote so much
time to the stenog room instead of spending
the afternoons with them. So indignant
has George become that yesterday he went
down to see Borough President Ahearn
about the rats, while Isaiah and Josiah
studied the Charter TO find 20 netting therein
that would give them the right legally to
compel the ats to visit their offices at least
part of the day.
Late yesterday afternoon the open faced
bronze radiators in the stenog room were
being covered with wire netting 30 that
the rats wouldn't spend all their time
amusing the typewriter girls. As the
workmen tackled on the netting the rats
gathered on the outer window sills Of the
seventh floor and peered into the stenog
room curio,isly. And an dnsk fell they
strolled away from the sils. the rats did
some to climb down the water leaders on
the facade OF the building to the ground
30 that they could get fresh start up the
steam pipes that lead to the stenogs' lunch
room, whereas Others sulking over that
new netting stroled sullenly down the
ornamentation to the street and beat it
back to the old home in the Staats.