Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-27
BUYS NINE
THAT SHOWS
BIG VALUES
HoWELLS GROUP IN ARIZONA
TRANSFERRED
|. c. HAYNES PAYS 100000 FOB
THE TITLE
E. A. Haggerty, Mining Engineer,
Leaves to Begin Work of Develop
ment-Twenty Stamp MIL
to Be Installed

When the Howells group of mining
claims passed into the hands of L. c.
Haynes, president of the Manhattan
Securities company, which transaction
was made this week, one of the most
important mining deals made in Ari-
iona for several years was consum-
mated. The property is located on the
Santa Maria river, Eureka mining dis
trict, Yavapai county, Arizona. Ru-
rnors of the deal have been floating
around for several days, but it was
not until yesterday that a confir1na-
ton of the report could be made. The
Los Angeles people who secured the
property are to be congratulated upon
their good fortune in making the deal.
The Howells group consists of six
full claims as follows:
Pulverizer, Purple Rose. Rose Quartz,
Harrison, Cleveland and Roosevelt,
and was located by J. L. Howells in
1885. The claims, which are rich in
gold, were known to the Mexicans as
carly as 1850, about which time a good
deal of ore from the surface was
worked by the arastra process The
Mexicans were run off or killed by the
Indians and the mines laid idle for sew
eral years until discovered by Mr..
Howells. who Immediately realized that
he had made find of more than usual
Importance. Since the day of the dis
covery Mr. Howells has put in all of
his time developing the group, doing a
total of 1900 feet of work. He first
located two claims and then added the
others, which proved to be as rich as
the original discoveries.
Involves 100000 Cash
The deal for the property was put
through by the firm of Haggott &
Grand, one of the best known mining
engineering firms in the territory. and
the consideration was $100,0 900 cash.
Reports by four competent mining
engineers have been made on the How
ellis group of mines and the reports
concur very closely upon all questions
of Importance. In 1900 a report was
made ard tho 7tarr-oo 'er- -vt~
therein showed the property to have
more than $4,000 tons Of ore on the
dumps and blocked out in the mine, Of
an average value of 50 per ton in gold
All rich streaks were avoided, when
the sampling was done by the en-
gineer. In 1902 another report was
made by a second engineer and his
report showed $4,000 tons of ore in
sight and on the dumps at the vari-
Gus shafts. The report submitted by
r. A. Haggott to Mr.. Haynes shows
treatment of an average value, leaving
out all rich st-eaks and rich samples,
of better than SO per ton.
Mr.. Haggott, when interviewed at
his office in the L w. Hellman build
ing, had the following to say about
the Howells property:
st have been in the mining business
for years having started in as a COM
mon miner in 1896, and having had ac-
tual charge of various properties since
1898. and in all that time / have never
seen a property to equal the Howells.
There is one of the largest gold mines
in the world in the 120 acres contained
in the six claims embraced in the deal.
IF properly handled the property
should soon be paying the owners big
dividends.
County Aids Road
1.-THE group is located only eighteen
miles from Date Creek siding in the
Hillside section between Prescott and
Phoenix, and can easily be reached by
wagon. The county of Yavapai. re-
alizing the Importance to the common
wealth that would accrue from the de-
velopment of the property, consented
TO send out a surveying outfit to sur
vey a road from the railroad to the
property. cutting off eleven miles haul
by the old road. 1 will put force of
men to work grading the road immed-
lately upon my arrival at the property,
and that will be soon, for l leave for
Arizona tonight. / will have the road
completed by the first of March.
IT have had instructions from Mr..
Haynes to start work on the grade for
the new twenty-stamp mill and also
to start work sinking on one of the
shafts which is now down fifty feet.
No time viii be lost in putting this
property on a paying basis"
The various reports made on the
property show it to be one of the big
gest gold mines opened up in the Hill
side section. One block of ore con-
tains 5000 tons of sic ore; another
block of 10000 tons shows values of
$3.50, and the ore bodies are as fol-
lows in width: Pulverizer, eight
inches to four feet; Purple Rose. four
to fifteen feet; Rose Quartz, four to
eleven feet; Cleveland, two to three
feet; Harrison, eighteen to eleven feet;
Roosevelt, four to eleven feet. The
total length of there shoots is 5000 feet.
Where the first sinking work win be
started by Mr. Haggott the ore shoot
is more than the width of the shaft
and assays $16 per ton. The shaft will
be sunk to the 100 foot level and a
drift run 500 feet. from which point