Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-20

codies ANA with we'll sustained values.
This mineral belt is five miles wide
and has been exposed from the Cotton
wood river to the JamuI ranch, a dis
| tanee o. nine miles. Others have traced
| IL twenty miles north of the Mexican
line and forty miles south. One reason
why it was spoken of as "a second
Cripple Creek" is the heavy wash COW
ering 1t. This, while not as thick as
Cripple Creek. which was as much as
twenty feet, has made the prospector
go deep to find the ore bearing rock
and this l. probably what minimized
the work in the past.
To Have True Test
But Dulzura is to have it's test. If
there is gold ore in the San Ysidora
mountains 1t iS to be found. The Buck
horn company has sold enough stock
in San Diego to begin sinking shaft
for distance of 500 feet, when the vein
will be crosscut from wall to wall. The
Buckhorn is now working sixteen men
on the shaft and expects to prosecute
the work without delay. A camp has
been established at the opening, 5000
feet of lumber is at the scene for tim
bering and a good road has been made
from the county road over the hilltop
to the shaft. At the Jumbo claim a
shaft is being sunk by Adams G. Hos
tetter of Los Angeles. who also own
the Boston group. This shaft is now
thirty-two feet deep and last Thursday
strike of better than $50 rock was
made at that depth.
The Buckthorn shaft is down about
ten feet. Its ledge is widening In depth.
The Jumbo is largely the same. The
general belief is that the lodges found
above are fanshaped from an ore body
of high value that will be found with
depth.
The Golden Artery, a representative
San Diego company, Is also pushing de-
velopment work on what is known as
the old Donahue mine. The Donahue
brothers have been the persistent con-
fident instruments of bringing Dulzura
to notice again. Their discoveries made
the town sit up and look about and 1t
is their property that is now a part of
the Consolidated Artery company and
which is to stand the test of deep work.
ings The company includes Mayor
Forward, e. o. Hodge, M. M. Moulton,
w. B. Gross, r. w. Bradley, F. w.
Stearns, Fred Hyers, w. G.. Thorpe of
Los Angeles, Thomas Barnes and e. N.
Goodlett. They are working several
men and have the shaft down about
ten feet. Their ore has shown an av-
Many Are at Work
When l visited the region Thursday
work was being done on a number of
claims and the volley of blasts late in
the afternoon told OF the work in other
regions which was invisible. The work.
ings are so distributed that it would
take days 20 visit and catalogue them,
but there are many working forces that
ci1 q g hI1d
most of the work had to be stopped be-
cause the workmen could not be re-
strained from going to see the fleet,
but the little camp called Manzanito,
about the middle of the district, where
the tent hotel and general stores and
the accompanying village of tents on
the hillside are found give the appear
ance of industry and promise. No town.
site has been laid out, but the people
in the tents would like one. they say,
as they have faith in the region and
believe 1t will make good.
Dulzura has it's little romance. 1t is
related that the earliest mine worked
on 1t was the Johnson mine at the head
of what may be called Artery gulch,
and that the working was directed by
spooks invoked at a spiritualist seance.
This mine was abandoned, so 1t Is said,
by command of the spooks But there
are others who say it was the result of
prospecting and that the failure to
make it produce was the impracticable
methods of the miners and the fact
that these impracticable methods were
met at the outset with the five years
drouth Consequently the work on the
little five stamp mill ended when the
miners found they had to carry water
up hill quarter of a mile in tub to
run the mill.
The real romance of DulZura is in the
grouping of it's climate and its luxur-
les at the front door of Its mining, or,
as one miner tersely puts it, "The only
place in the world where you can pick
oranges with one hand and dig gold
with the other is Dulzura."