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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-02-15
LUCY GRAY STRIKES
STRINGERS ASSAYING
NEARLIs$ $4,000 A TON

LAS VEGAS, Feb. FITTINGS have
been happening at the Lucy Gray mine
near Las Vegas in the past few days
things that have brought joy to the
hearts of the owners, who have so per-
sistently and diligently pushed the
work. and will bring gladness to those
faithful friends who have placed their
money in it and whose confidence in
both the mine and management has
never waVered.
Thursday of last week a crosscut was
started from the main drift on the 200
level, toward the east, the first round
of shots bringing to view big stringers
of ore that ran over $500 to the ton.
The next days work exposed ore worth
$3.50 ton, and on Monday T. l.. Bright
came in with specimens so rich it would
be hard to conceive a value. A grab
sample from box of this ore that had
been assorted, assayed in gold $1676.75,
silver 388 ounces and lead % per cent.
The ore is crystalhzed lead and pos
sibly tellurium, and lies next to a YER
teal seam of tale gouge sixteen inches
in thickness. 1t is conservatively es-
timated to be worth 81 a pound.
Later-A series of assays just COM
pleted on ore from the latest strike
give values ton of $36194O $3959.27,
S3327.04, $3473.90 and several others
running above the $500 mark.
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GOLD FEVER HITS CAMP;
EVERYBODY GOES HUNTING

CLOBDCROFT, n. NJ. Feb. IA
The excitement around Cloudcroft and
Alamogordo over the discovery of gold
in James canyon shows no sign of
abating
1t is said J. S. Houser, a Klondike
miner, discovered a quartz ledge a
mile from Cloudcroft on James can
yon, and in two days the mountain
side was located all the way to the In
dian reservation, where it is found that
the Indians have been mining for
years.
Nearly every one at Cloudcroft and
some from Alamogordo have taken
claims and all are mining; even the
storekeepers locked up their stores for
several days and went prospecting.
There are miners here from Klon-
dixie and California and Cripple Creek,
and companies have been formed by
persons from Alamogordo and here.
There will be some large mine own
ers from California and Cripple Creek
here in a few days.
Even the farmers and sawmill men
are locating claims.
Cloudcroft is booming and property
has advanced. Two vacant lots sold
last week in North Cloudcroft for $500.
Corner lots are now held at $500 each.
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MINERS DISCOVER GAVE
LADEN WITH COPPER ORE

BENSON, Feb. 14.-RepoTts from sew
eral reliable sources have reached here
that the Centurian Mining company
has cut into a cave of unknown eX-
tent which appears to be a great treas
ure vault of nature.
The crosscut tunnel from the hot
tom of the inclined shaft on q group
about a mile and half north of ORA
COON station, about twenty miles east
of Benson, at a depth of 120 feet, broke
into a cave fifty feet wide that extends
along the course of the formation a
distance unknown at present.
At the farther side of the cave from
where the tunnel cut into it is a Gre
vice wide enough for a man to go down,
to which no bottom has been found
at last report from there. Stones
dropped into it could not be heard to
strike bottom. One of the miners was
lowered about 100 feet into it with a
rope, but could not see this bottom.
There must be very extensive open
ing below, as there are the workings
where the crevice was struck in the
bottom of the shaft from which a
strong draft of air comes out all day
and draws in all night.
The arching roof of the cave presents
a beautiful sight in the candle light,
showing red and green and blue ore,
with white crystals interspersed.
But the most interesting feature from
a business standpoint is the ore with
which the cave is filed ten feet higher
than the floor of the tunnel and is in
Jumps that would weigh from so to 200
pounds. They are all covered with Il
shell Of red iron, filed with green mall
achite and blue chrysocolla, principally
the latter, which is 26 per cent copper.
No drilling or blasting is required, the
miners using bars to pry down the
pieces of ore, which are wheeled out
through the crosscut to the bottom of
the shaft and hoisted to the surface.
A carload, part of which was already
on the dump before the strike in the
cave, was shipped to Douglas and
smelted. netting $33 ton clear Of
smelling charges, railroad rate and
hauling to the railroad station from the
mine
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MCNAMARA ENTERS DIVIDEND
PAYING LIST OF PROPERTIES

TONOPAH, Feb. 14.-The McNa-
mara has entered the dividend paying
list
The plan of the company, which has
amassed fine treasury and disposed
of all its litigation, is to disburse
$4,000 on the first of each month. be-
ginning March 1. This means S12O. 900
velvet money year, or 80 1-3 per cent
interest on the investment at present
prices, one of the most tempting pIums
In the stock line, far exceeding even
Goldfeld Consolidated and Tenopah
Mining in proportionate rate.
There is also the strongest talk of
a mill, erected either by the company
alone, or through partnership with an
other mining company, for the McNa-
mara contract with the Montana mill
expires the middle of March and win
not be renewed
Furthermore, the Mcnamara com
pany will begin tomorrow on a most
important piece of development work.
1t will start lowering the main work.
Ing shaft, which is now 500 feet deep.
to the S00-foot point, in order to pick
up an entirely new ledge which was
discovered some months ago at a depth
OF 74O feet by means of a diamond drill.
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WINNEMUCCA MOUNTAIN
LEDGES DISCLOSE RICHES
After Idle Winter Properties Become
Active, with Blasting in Every
Direction

WINNEMUCCA, Feb. 14-There is
much activity being shown on Winnie
mucca mountain these days, and work
is being resumed on properties that
lay idle all winter. The sound Of blast
ing is a common occurrence, and some
good lodges are being opened.
Dave Payne and J. S. Barnes are
rapidly pushing tunnel into the hill
on the Hercules group of claims and
are already encountering ore carrying
good values in gold and silver, with
the yellow metal predominating. They
have been working on their property
for the past few months, and they be-
lieve that they are uncovering a pay
ing mine, as the ledge is of good size,
and so far the ore is of the milling
grade, which is satisfactory, provid-
ing that it reaches depth. This they
propose to prove by the tunnel which
they are running and is in some so feet.
The ore is an oXidized quartz showing
some Sulphides.
On the mountain just north of the
mouth of Robins canyon Mr. Zeigler
and associates are prospecting develop
ment work on group of claims they
have there. So far a good sized ledge
is being stripped at intervals along its
strike, and high grade ore is disclosed
in number of places. A tunnel is to
be started at. the bottom of the hill
that when completed will cut the ledge
at great depth.
AT the Intermountain property on
the south end of the mountain the
ground is being broken for the pump
ing plant which is to be installed there
in a short time. This end of the noun
tain will be quite a busy section the
coming summer. as Superintendent w
G. Adamson is planning for extensive
development. The double compart-
ment shaft will be sent down to the
400-foot point, where they expect to
intersect the old Pride of the Mountain
ledge, which was a good producer in
the earlier daYS
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KING OF ARIZONA TO
MILL ALVARADO ROCK
TWO BROTHERS. MINE HAULS
FIRST ORE
Claims Only Recently Located Carry
$50 Averages and $500 in Places,
Values Increasing with
Depth

YUMA. Feb. 14.-Ore from the Two
Brothers mines, the new Alvarado
strike, will be hauled to the King of
Arizona mines, a distance of seventeen
miles, and there milled by the plant
of the King company. Felix Mayhem,
who, with Joe and Fred Alvarado,
owns the new claims is enthusiastic
over the discovery, and says it is q
better thing now than the North Star,
when he sold the 50-foot hole for
100000. A contract for hauling has
been practically arranged and May
hew expects to be putting the new
stuff through the mill by March 1.
The AlvaradO brothers had been COW
ering the range for the past four
months, looking for something good,
when they stumbled across this rich
float in an entirely new district In
dications showed a considerable free
goldbearing ledge in the Castle Dome
district, seventeen miles on the Yuma
side of Kofa. Location notices were
posted and samples sent to Felix May
hew, together with descriptions as to
the length and width of the ledge.
1t took Mayhem less than twenty
four hours to get on the ground in his
automobile and he went wild over the
prospect. He wired his friends that
they might locate next, and within
three days there were more than thirty
prospectors on the scene. Today every
foot of the ground is located.
Seven men were put Immediately to
work by Mayhem. The ore averages
$50 a ton and runs as high as $500
in places, values increasing with depth.
Already enough pay ore is blocked out
to make a good mill run and it assays
so high that arrangements have been
made to run it through the King of
Arizona mill
Joe Alvarado has refused $150,000
for his interest in the new mine. Sew
eral attempts to purchase the property
have failed Mayhem will not take
chances of repeating his experience of
selling a 100000 mine for less, and
his brothers inlaw will follow his adj
vice.
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Shipment from BeIIeheIen

Griffith and Vice, leasers on the Lau-
renee and Harwood property at Belle
their lease to Columbia last Wednes-
day which is expected to run better
than $500 ton. The entire width of
the shaft is all shipping worth, and
neither wall has been found. Old tim
ers on the Kawich range are united in
saying that this great and bona fide
strike that will create an excitement
like the present one in the BuIlfrog
district when opened up the same as
the Pioneer mine
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.SHOSHONE MAKES ONE
GOLD BRICK EACH DAY
MONTHLY OUTPUT AGGRE-
CAFES 27OO POUNDS
Proportion Is Fifteen Per Cent Gold to
Eighty=fiVe Per Cent Silver.
Production May In-
crease

RHYOLITE. Feb. 14.-From January
8, 1909, to February 6, 1909, the Mont
gomery Shoshone Consolidated Mining
company of Rhyolite shipped approx
mately 200 pounds avoirdupois Of gold
and silver bullion.
This is the record for the Shoshone
mill. The shipment on January con-
sisted of ten bricks, weighing approx
mately 800 pounds; the shipment on
January % consisted of ten bricks,
weighing about the same; the ship
ment of Sunday last consisted of eleven
bricks. weighing more than 1000 pounds.
Shoshone bullion is worth from SO
to 81 an ounce, so the management has
declared on one or two occasions. No
official figures are given out as to the
value Of the three shipments noted, but
figuring the bullion at SO an ounce, the
combined shipments should be worth
in the neighbOrhood Of 100000.
The reported proportion of gold and
silver is Is per cent of the former to
IS per cent of the latter, which is high
enough in gold to gain the distinction
of being gold bullion carrying silver. =
The ShOshOne has turned out in thir-
ty days thirty-one bricks, any one Of
which would put the average man on
"easy street" for a few months at least.
The only product of the mill at this
time is bullion, as the concentrates are
reground in a tube mill and treated by
cyanide, as previously noted in this
paper.
1t is not expected that the monthly
output of bullion will continue to be
around the 100000 mark. The recent
shipments included the bullion reduced
from an accumulation of concentrates
from the previous month. However
with the increased capacity of the mill,
the production should be larger on the
average than it was during 1908. I'm
fortunately, the mill has been idle for
a few days, owing to the breaking of
machinery, but operations will probably
be resumed the last of the week.
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To Clear Sutro Tunnel

A large force of men has been sent
to Sutro to clear the caving ground and
repair the timbering at the end of the
Dig drain tunnel damaged by the re-
cent hre, and another gang will be
employed in similar service in the north
lateral from the G. & c. shaft to fine
junction with the main tunnel. From
the fact that the outflow from the
main tunnel of mine and pressure wa
ter pumped by the c. & c. and Ward
shafts to the tunnel level is nearly
the same volume now as prior to the
ire induces the belief that the extent
OF caving ground is not as serious as
apprehended, and may require but a
short time to clear away the debris "a
admit of the resumption of work In the
Savage, Hale and Norcross, Chollar
and Potosi mines in the south lateral.
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Prospector Accidentally Uncovers Lost
Ledge Running Thirty Per Cent Copper

PHOENIX, Feb. IA few casual
blows with pick made by a visitor
10 the claim led to what appears to be
one of the most important mining
strikes ever made in Maricopa county.
Had it not been for the curious pros
pectlng of Charles Standard, John Ely
rich, Pat Riordan, William Anderson
and William Turner of Phoenix they
would now be the owners of a mere
prospect, perhaps an abandoned claim,
instead of one of the richest undeVeI-
oped properties in Arizona.
While the strike was made several
months ago, little or nothing has been
heard of it in Phoenix. Ore running
80 per cent copper has been taken
from the mine, and all the ore, which
is there in enormous volume SO far as
can be told by the limited amount of
development work done, carries high
values in the red metal.
The claim is about thirty miles
north of Phoenix, two miles north of
the well known Plank property, and
directly adjoining the property of
Charles Standard on the south. Tur-
ner and Anderson are doing the de-
velopment work They began by sink
ing shaft over 100 feet deep in the
place that looked best to them. They
lost the ledge and at the bottom of
their shaft ran four drifts, one south,
one north, one east and one west. They
failed to locate their ledge, but were
continuing their work more or less
hopefully.
One day Standard dropped in at
their camp to sharpen tools. AS he was
leaving he saw some rock on the side
of the hill that looked pretty good to
him, and out of curiosity cleared off a
small space, uncovering a ledge. All
the rock carried copper.
Later he told Anderson and Turner
that ne believed he had found their
lost ledge. Finally they decided to run
drift from their shaft in a southeast
erly direction. They crosscut the ledge
discovered by Standard. At the point
where they struck it it was seventeen
feet wide and some of the rock they
! took out ran 80 per cent in copper.
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Thumb Butte MiIIsite

PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 1.-THE di-
rectors of the Thumb Butte Mining
company will leave next week for a
visit to the property to select Ioca-
ton for millsite. A. B. Ming, secre-
tary of the company, has returned from
an examination of the mines and will
make. report on the recent strike OF
rich ore on one of the main lodges. Tho
company has twenty claims, and has
been developing the property for the
past year and a half The main shaft
has been sunk for 300 feet and a large
body of ore is now blocked out. With
the new strike there is sufficient ore
in sight to demand the erection of o
reduction plant. Directors in the COM
pany are P. 0. Splitter, Sheriff Living
ston: ). L. Lee, A. B. Ming and ]. p.
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South Dakota. The entire, mountain
side is being broken by the use Of steam
drills and goes without sorting to the
mill. 1t is claimed that the plates show
greater values than were found by
sampling, as throughout the mass, as
in the Homestake, are rich spots that
will assay in the thousands.
The ten stamp mill which has run
night and day for the past two months,
is as complete in all its various depart
ments as any mill ever built in this
country, the company having in view
the probability Of its immediate en-
largement. Nature certainly favored
the Mcguire mine. The railroad track
crosses the property and the mill is
situated directly at the mine, on a
spur. From any day train the pas
sengers may see the mill and the mine
working and it is certainly good ad-
vertisement for Kingman and Mohave
county.
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~ INGMAN, Feb. 14.-There is a
IN strong probability that before the
- year is out Kingman will hear the
pound of hundred stamps crushing
gold ore at the Mcguire mine. The test
mill of ten stamps now operating on
this mine has determined to the salts
faction of the Arizona Gold Mines com
pany, operators of the property, that
the values are there, and last week in
Prescott the company made a tender of
$4,000 to the owners, Major Pickerell
and Mrs. Mcguire, to close the final
deal, which was accepted and the title
to the mine passed to them. This
makes $4,000 for the property, $4,000
having been paid when it was taken
over
The Bi-Metal mine, more commonly
known as the Mcguire, three miles
south of town, is a great deposit of the
same nature as the Homestake in
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SYLvANITE ENTERS
ON SECOND STAGE
WILL INSTALL MACHINERY AND
PRODUCE REGULARLY
Work Starts on Eureka sylvanite
Winnie Group Is SoId-JoweII
Mine ownsite +,
Changes Hands

SYLVANITE, N. NJ, Feb. 14.-Syl-
vanite, from the mining mans point of
view, is entering upon the second stage
of its existence-that of the installation
of machinery and the beginning of reg
ular production.
The Gold Hill, Consolidated and Ned
derland mines are now preparing to
install machinery for operating COM
pressed air drills, Indicating that their
owners, Colorado mining men, are sat
isfied that the properties have passed
out of the prospect stage and are mines
Ore bins are being built at their prop
critics and preparations are being made
to begin shipments and maintain them
regularly.
Tuesday morning the Eureka Syl-
vanite Mining company started work
en- the Ridgewood claim with four men.
Under the direction of Superintendent
Felix Walters the ore shoot in the dixie
is being stripped from foot to hanging
wall, and where exposed will average
about ten inches in width of high grade
shipping ore, which appears to be
widening, and the indications are that
a good body of high grade ore will be
encountered when the hanging wall is
struck. About forty feet distant from
these workings another streak of high
grade ore was found Thursday, and this
| is now being explored. In doing the
| above work from three to four tons of
shipping ore have been extracted.
Takes Winnie Group
! 1. j. Russell received a telegram from
1 A Tl1,s-
asking him to take over the Winnie
group from the locators on account OF
| Colorado operators, and the initial cash
payment was made at once. The Win
| ME group comprises three adjoining
claims known as Winnie, Helen and
Gertie about 600 feet south of the Ned
| derland and adjoining the Fluorine
group Of the Eureka Sylvanite COM
pany, and situate in the heart of the
best proved and most promising section
| of the camp
The lowell mine, owned by the lowell
! Gold and Copper Mining company, con-
tlnues to improve with depth At sixty
/ three feet the pay streak of high grade
ore has not only Widened, but shows
increased enrichment, an assay taken
last week giving the splendid results
of $293 in silver and $42 in gold, a total
of 1895 a ton.
AS further evidence of the unbounded
faith that Colorado capital has in the
ultimate great future of Sylvanite
William Clark, the wealthy florist OF
Colorado Springs, purchased the con-
trolling interest last week in the SyI-
vanite Townsite and Development COM
pany, owning the town of Sylvanite
1 Mr.. Clark is no novice in the mining
townsite business, having had previous
experience in the towns of Cripple
| Creek, Creole and Altman in Colorado
| in all Of which he was heavily in
| terested.
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Activity at Vicksburq

WICKENBURG, Feb. 14-The old
Desert mine and mill few miles south
from Vicksburg are coming to the front
in a creditable manner. Mr.. Winches-
ter, the superintendent has the mill in
operation and Vicksburg, the supply
ling center. Several other properties
adjacent to Vicksburg have become
active of late, which will add largely to
the general DrosperitV
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Old Mine Is Sold

TUCSON, Feb. 14-Papers have been
placed in escrow in Tucson by which
title of the Jackson mine, situated in
the Galiuro mountains, Graham coun-
ty, Arizona, was passed from the own
ers, Paul Mitchell, William Speed and
J. L. Branch, to a group of eastern
capitalists.
The Jackson is one of the old mines
of the section in which it is located.
Discovered before the Southern Pa
cific railroad was built into Tucson,
it's rich silver ores were hauled MANY
miles to market and under constant
fear of attack by Apache Indians.
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Plume Starts to Sink

TONOPAH, Feb. 14.-The work of
repairing the Red Plume shaft, which
has been going on for the past week
has been completed and, the work of
sinking started. 1t is the intention OF
the company to sink to a depth of zoe
feet and then start prospecting for sew
eral veins known to exist. The pres
ent depth of the shaft is 500 feet, which
corresponds with the 500 workings OF
the Mizpah shaft.
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Blue Bull Proves Rich

Although no one is saying much
about it, the Knickerbocker lease on
the Blue Bull at Goldfield is proving
up a tremendously rich property Four
or five feet of ore that will break bet
ter than $50 to the ton at about $50 feet
depth is being blocked out. and the
shaft will be sunk away down. The
ore started almost from grass roots
and is a sort of silicified porphyry.
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There was 10 low grade stuff.
Their latest move is to sink a shaft
near the point where Standard made
his discovery. A few days ago it was
down about thirteen feet and they
were in ore which was estimated at
about 10 per cent copper.