Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-07
WILL SHIP ORE
FROM RICH MINE
ON PARKER ROAD
CALZONA, CALIFORNIA READY
FOR BUSINESS
LOS ANGELES MEN PLAN NEW
MINING TOWN
Region Rich in Gold Is Afforded Trans
portation FaclIities-lrrigation
for the Parker Indian
Reservation

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The completion of the Arizona &
California railroad from Parker, Ariz.,
across the Colorado river to Calzona,
California, will give to South California
a new commercial center that promises
to be the supply point for one of the
richest mineral sections of the state;
a town tributary to Los Angeles and
which should develop into a valued
customer of the merchants of this city.
The Arizona & California railroad
is not paper road-it has been built
and is in operation from Bengal sta
tion on the Santa Fe to Parker, on the
Arizona bank of the river and across
that turbulent stream and for mile
or two toward the new California
town. Nor does work stop there, for
q horde of men and hundreds of horses
and mules are now engaged in grading
the roadbed to it's temporary terminus;
for the rails will not stop at Calzona
but will travel on across mountain
range and mesa to a connection with
the Southern Pacific, making the link
traffic" line.
A Los Angeles Project
Calzona owes it's life to the far-sight
edness of Los Angeles men, who have
a happy faculty in spying out the good
things of the desert country. Carl F.
Schader and F. NJ brennan are the
Angelenos who conceived the strate-
g-ic position of the site of the new town,
in which they are associated with B.
l.. Vaughn, a merchant and banker of
Needles. The townsite company has
begun operations by grading streets,
digging wells and providing lighting
system, and has arranged with the rail-
road officials for switch yards and
warehouses for the benefit of mer-
chants A telephone line is now being
constructed to Parker, eight miles dis
tant.
Producing Mines Tributary
Gold is the product of the Calzona
country, and the real estate merchants
were preceded by the prospector, and
he followed by the mine maker so
many years that the mines are ready
for the railroad On the north, the
south and the west, and all on the
California side of the river, are mines
and prospects, and the first train of
freight cars to reach the temporary
terminus of the A. & c. will go back
filled with gold-bearing quartz for the
smelters.
Mr.. Vaughn, president of the Calzona
Land and Townsite company, reached
that favored section in time to get into
the good things. His first purchase
was an interest in the Raypinco mine,
which the locator, John Sanborn, had
already to the producing stage. The
Raypinco, which is now hauling ore
to the railroad and shipping to the Ell
Paso smelters, lies ten miles south
of the town in the Riverside noun
tains. Vaughn and Sanborn received
100000 spot cash from New York in
vestors, and wish now they had the
mine back.
Neighbors of the Raypinco are the
properties of the Steece Gold and Cop
per company, the McKisson Mining
company and the California and Ari-
zona, all having a good showing of
ore and each working force of %
to so miners
Mr.. Vaughn nosed out another bon-
anza in the 'Hon" mine, in the copper
basin country, north of Calzona, which
New York money absorbed for $3.50
TWO Bullion Producers
South of Calzona eighteen miles is
the famous Lum Gray mine, which has
produced gold bullion for twenty years.
Lum is dead now two years, but Lum
jr. is still working the mine and grind
ing out gold bricks in a one stamp mill
down on the Colorado river, while a
Boston syndicate is determining wheth-
er or not the mine is worth a quarter
of a million dollars. If they decide to
vote yes the Gray family will betake
themselves to Los Angeles to live.
Eighteen miles west of the new town
is "the biggest mine in the Turtle
mountains" likewise we'll known to
the desert prospector. 1t is called the
Horn mine, and is opened by 1000 feet
of tunnels drivn in along tn vein.
Enough of the richest of this rock was
pounded down and amalgamated on the
river banks to keep the owners in grub
and powder. and they now have avail
able large tonnage for transportation
by rail.
Five miles north Of the town are
located the properties Of Wyatt carp,
we'll known in bygone days as a gun
man of some skill, which are ready for
stopping operations, and adjoining the
carp mine is the Trio, in the prospec-
tive stage. In the Whipple mountains
the Bonman mines have 1000 feet of
work underground exposing some ore
shoots of generous values
Some Los Angeles Mines
Los Angeles men are in strong in
the region of the Bomans, owning the
D. & w. with 500 foot shaft and
hoist; the American Eagle, which has
some Santa Fe railroad money credited
to it's development account, and a fine
body of ore in the sulphide zone at d
depth of 300 feet; the National Copper
with 1000 feet of underground burrow
ing, and the Bluebird.
The district in which these mines
are located is likened to Searchlight by
well known mining engineer. Both
the formation and the character OF
the ore, gold with occasional lenses
running high in copper, are said to be
identical with this well known Nevada
camp.
To irrigate Reservation
UP river from Calzona and Parker
at Headgate, the United States gov
ernment, under direction of Secretary
Ballinger of the interior department
has appropriated the waters of the
Colorado for a big reclamation scheme
which is to furnish water for the ir.
rigation of the Parker Indian reserva.
tion land, soon to be thrown open tc
settlers. There is a natural dam site
at this point and it will be necessary
to raise the level but fourteen feet L
get the desired fall and ample reservoir
From this dam the engineers fgur,
that they can develop anywhere from
10000 to 10000 horsepower, electri,