Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-05
NezvS OF Mines and Mining

solidated mines shows that the deeper
the assures are opened the larger are
the ore bodies, and there is no dearth
of men to be found who will gamble
heavy stakes for such prize.
I, de Sallier. E. H. Schiek of Brock
and Feagans and Dennis and Gordan, oil
operators, have Joined with T. d. Van
devort of Goldfield in the operation of
a lease on block one, Combination No.
2 claim of the Consolidated company
in Goldfield, and will begin work Oc-
tober 10. The lease has been trans.
| ferred to the Lincoln -Goldield Leasing
| and Mining company and runs for SIX
| teen months.
The block of ground adjoins the
/ famous Reilly lease on the Florence
and end-lines the Combination claim,
from which the Consolidated company
| is mining rich ore near the lease lines
| Former Iessees sank q shaft of two
compartments to a depth of 800 feet,
| cutting three veins which contained
| small punches of good ore.
Recently the Moore lease on the east
| developed a shoot of shipping ore on
| the 500 level, close to the east line OF
| the Lincoln. 1t is the intention to sink
the present shaft to a depth of 500 feet.
| prosecuting west from the 500 level
| for the Combination vein and to the
| south for a cross vein, which comes
! from the Florence on the 600 Level
! the Moore ore shoot should make wei
within the Lincoln ground.
Developments in the Moore lease
| have demonstrated that good values
! exist in this portion of the Combina-
! ton group, and it seems to be mainly
a question of acquiring depth, the ore
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! r. A. Montgomery, president of the
! Skidoo Mining company operating the
| Skidoo mines in Inyo county, Panamint
| range, has returned to the city from
visit to the mines and mill and attend
ance at the twelfth session of the
! American mining congress, to which
4 he was a delegate from Los Angeles.
Mr. Montgomery reports the mines
and mill in good condition. The clean
up for the last half of September was
| $40 900 and the mine superintendent
who was in Rhyolte when the train
came through. said that the ore since
the first of the month was of still
| better grade.
Harry Bargman, residing at the
! Nadeau hotel, Los Angeles. has invent
ed a safety fuse lighter for blasting
will eliminate the dangers of firing
holes. He has recently perfected a
machine for their manufacture and is
ready to fill orders, which he has re-
ceived from several mining companies
and from the United States govern
ment.
The invention consists of celluloi1
cap in which the combustible material
is fixed and which is slipped over the
t1h 10
touched to the celluloid it ignites the
combustible, which, in turn, fires the
fuse. 1t is called the eagle-fuse lighter.
c. W. Hays. president Of the Wayne
Iron and Lumber company of Green
/ Vile Mo, and first vice president of
| the w G. & St. L. railroad, which runs
from st. Eouis down into the iron
/ fields, left Los Angeles last night in
! his private car for Goldfeld, where he
has extensive mining interests.
Mr.. Hays has recently contracted
with a large Pittsburg concern for the
sale of 900 tons of iron ore, 100000
tons a year, for which his company
will receive 81 per ton at the mines. He
also has purchased the controlling in
terest in the w G. & ST L. railway
H. L. Percy president of the Mag
istral-Ameca Mining company of Mex
leo, was one of the eXcursionists to
Goldfield. Mr.. Percy was at one time
| interested in a lease in that camp, and
also held an option on the Jumbo
group, now owned by the Consolidated
company.
w. P. Garrison of Pasadena returned
yesterday from Goldfeld, where he is
operating the Precious Metals lease on
the Atlanta.
]. E. Krepps, president and manager
of the Pittsburg Mining company, oper-
ating in Siskiyou county, Cal, inspect
ed the mines and mill of the Console
dated company at Goldfeld Saturday.
T. A. Johnson and Carl Anderson,
formerly director and superintendent
respectively of the Johnnie Mining &c
Milling company, joined the Sierra
Madre club excursion to Goldfeld, re-
turning yesterday.
Charles L. Hyde, president of ths
Knight-Hyde Mining company, is in
town from San Diego, where he is en-
gagged in road building.
W. W, Whitney, president of the New
Bonnie Glare Mining company, and who
mining congress at Goldfeld, is spend
ing a few days at the mine, in the Gold
Mountain mining district, thirty-five
miles south of Goldhed.
w. G. Luckhardt, mining engineer
for the Tonopah & Tidewater railway.
will report next week on the proposed
spur from Bonnie Glare station to the
mines of the New Bonnie Glare Min
ing company, a distance Of ten miles.
If Mr.. Luckhardt finds that the COM
pany has enough ore in sight to de-
liver 100 tons a day to the road for a
period of two years, the spur will be
built.
A Raymond and Whitcomb excursion
of thirty-four persons from Boston is
at the Angelus en- route home from the
A.-Y.-P. fair at Seattle. They will re-
main four days, visiting points of in
terest in Los Angeles and vicinity.
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THREE MEN UNDER ARREST
ON HORSE THEFT CHARGE