Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-01
RICH COUNTRY
ABOUT NEEDLES
COVERS MANY CAMPS WITH
GOLDEN PROSPECTS
FAVORED BY WATER, FUEL AND
RAILWAY FACILITIES
Expert Desert Man Gives Opinion of
Great Region Contiguous to the
Colorado and Bearing Direct
on Los Angeles
By DESERT RAT


NEEDLES, Cal. Jan. 31.-With
Needles as the hub, radiating from this
point like the spokes in a wheel are
roads that lead to some of the richest
mining ground in America. Gold Roads,
Searchlight, Signal, Sunrise, Parker
and Kingman are among the producing
camps of this section. Eagle Mountain,
hex, Ibis, >Black Mountain, Leadville,
Java and Klinefelter are some of the
camps that have been undergoing de-
velopment. From the prospect stage to
the producing stage since, June, 1906.
Work has been going on continuously
at these and many other camps along
this valley, and from the Santa Fe,
which traVerseS this valley from
Needles to Goffs. The sound of blasts
can be heard and the pack animals and
wagons seen from the cars showing the
substantial growth of the section and
the faith of the men who are invest
ing their money in the ultimate success
of their ventures
Leaving the Santa Fe train at Kline
felter, one may walk to the west a
few hundred feet and stand on the
great porphyry dixie that traverses this
section for miles and see in the north
the mountains of Searchlight, Hart,
Won Trigger, Signal and Providence, to
the west Flat Top, Eagle mountain and
the Sacramento and Piute ranges, on
the south Sunrise, Needles point and
the Chimehuevis ranges, and on the
east the range that has furnished the
Gold roads and Tom Reed mines.
Strike North to South
At KIinefelter the formation has a
general northerly and southerly strike
along the line of the great fissure, be-
fore referred to, having for general
western footwalI the old red conglom-
crate commonly called sandstone. The
eastern or hanging wall is the river
range, having general elevation Of
about 220O feet, and composed largely
of Felsite, capped often by a micaceOus
Schist and traversed by parallel dikes
and veins of lime, diorite and iron. Here
work is in progress on several groups
OF claims.
The Gateway group owned by De
Lape & Co., where the greatest amount
of work has been done, is typical Of the
rest
On this group there can be readily
traced three distinct veins or mineral
lied zones running with, the same
strike and dip, as the country rock for
several thousand feet and averaging in
width from 60 to $50 feet. These veins
all show iron oxide stains. Underneath.
at not exceeding three to six feet in
depth, is found hematite of iron or
goSSan carrying percentages of cop
per- The vein matter is tale. lime, dio-
rite and iron. the copper being in the
form of carbonates and oxides, with
stringers running nearly easterly and
westerly, carrying high values in cop
per. probably Offshoots from the main
vein. I am led to this conclusion by
finding these stringers on both sides of
the apex of the mountain exposed by
washes. onen crts. tunnels and shafts.
Fine Ore Bodies Are Opened
On the Gateway group some fine
ore bodies of from two to fifteen feet
in width have been opened, carrying an
average of 10 per cent copper with 81. so
silver and $1.50 to $3.50, and in one case
$3.50 in gold. A cross-cut tunnel now
being driven to cut what appears to be
a junction of two veins is now in about
siXty-five feet and will cut these veins
at about 300 feet in depth after which
shipping Of ore will be started to the
smelter at Needles
Adjoining this group on the north is
the Square Deal group owned by De
Lape. Bartlett. Lesuer and Corcoran.
Where trenching has opened sixty
foot vein carrying a pay streak of four
to six feet of two and one-half to cop
per with about 50 each gold and silver
North of this about three miles is the
River range group, owned by Doyle and
DE Lape. Work now in progress shows
two fissure veins carrying per cent
copper. SO silver and 81 gold.
over this range about one mile from
these properties and facing the Colo
RADIO river is a group of claims owned
by Montana parties. Two shafts are
now being sunk. working two shifts
The work is under the supervision OF
two of the owners. Messrs. Jahreiss
and CorcOran, and is of a permanent
character. the timbering, roads, etc
being of high grade workmanship II
is reported that Montana miIlionaires
are associated with them to sink at
least to 500 feet, and so far the values
in gold and copper have been so en-
couraging that orders have been placed
for supplies to continue work fo1
months to come.
South of these, along the slope, lies
the Hamlet group, owned by Rosen-
berger, Lesuer and Handorf. Develop
ment work now on shows about the
same encouraging outlook as the Jah-
reiss and Corcoran properties.
Lying somewhat more to the east and
midway between the last two men