Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-07

Gold Roads, the Arizona bonanza gold
camp, is about to give birth to another
famous mine, which will soon begin to
send to the mint its quota of bullion
after several years of strenuous but
misguided effort.
The new candidate for honors is the
Ruth mine, which is owned by ]. F.
Leedy and C. S. Early of Los Angeles
and P. A. Thoraldson of Phoenix, Ariz.
The misguided efforts" were not those
of Mr.. Leedy and his partners, but of
a tenderfoot company of st. Louis
capitalists by whose mistakes they
profited. The trio now in control of the
Ruth are men who have mined in every
civilized part of the globe and who
quickly recognized the possibilities Of
an immense auriferous ledge which,
with its bold outcrop, faces the bunk
and boarding houses of the former
owners of the mine. In three months,
by reason of their knowledge of the
mining game, they have developed an
ore shoot which contains above the 100
foot level enough ore to justify the
transportation of the mill which the st.
Louis company built a distance of eight
miles from the banks of the Colorado
river, where il should never have been
built to the mine. With this work
done and the plant in operation Leedy
ct al will reap the benefit which an
over-enthusiastic but unskilled mine
manager promised the credulous citi-
zens of st. Louis.
Bonanza for Its Neighbor
The Ruth mine is located close by the
famous Moss discovery, located by one
Jenkins and partners in the early SOS,
which yielded the discoveries a fortune
Of 100000 from one shipment of rich
rock. transported by river to the coast
and thence down the gulf and up to
San Francisco. The Moss discovery IS
now owned by Los Angeles people, and
is idle.
Mr.. Leedy sank his shaft on the wide
outcrop of the Ruth vein, and his Judg-
ment was proven good when the in
cline on the vein reached depth of
forty feet From that point down 10
the 72-foot mark the entire average OF
the shaft as determined by thirty
samples. is $2S.97, an ore so free from
bases that an extraction of better than
80 per cent is feasible, with plate ANAL
gamation and cyanide.
At a depth of 100 feet drifts have
been driven in each direction along the
vein, and the average samples are even
better than the returns from the shaft,
the ore shoot as developed in the cross
cuts showing five and one-half feet of
quartz. The backs now available con-
tain enough ore to justify the rebuild
| ing of the mill, which will be accom-
plished without delay.
Free Gold In Bottom
In the bottom of the shaft the last
round of holes broke out quartz show
| ing free gold, an unusual condition in
4 this mine, in which the auriferous
values have been characterized by the
fneness of the particles. Mr.. Leedy has
| directed the sinking Of the shaft, and
the fortunate owners will soon know
what sort of bonanza lead the bore has
dropped into.
| THE mill equipment constitutes -four
| two-stamp batteries of the Hendy type
| together with a boiler and engine, and
/ the entire plant is in excellent con-
dition. The mill was built to treat the
ore from the Rattan, small vein
Daralleling the Ruth, and but for the
mistaken notion of the management
| that anybody could operate a mill
might now be running to the profit OF
the ST. Louis crowd.
The Ruth group consists of seven full
claims, covering 5000 feet OF the Ruth
vein and 5000 feet OF the Rattan. 1t Is
| a close neighbor of the Tom Reed mine
and also of the Gold Roads, property
which first brought attention to the
| Gold Roads section of the Kingmar
country and which is just now pre-
pairing to send it's output through q
new and modern milling plant.
Made Author of Beach
Jack Leedy is a famous character
of the far north and is the man who Is
| responsible for the transformation OF
Rex Beach from a sour-dough minei
into the author Of the famous spoil
ers," "The Barrier" and THE Silver
! Hoard" He first met Beach in Nome