Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-09
RICH GOLD CAMP IN
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Kit Carson aud Others secure Good
Claims In New Mining Dis
trict on Desert.

santa Pc railroad by Rogers aud
ADAMS, Two prOspectors who had been
ktubstakcd few weeks before BY Col
NJ larson, now resident Of Salt
Lake and A. $. Prescott cashier Of the
Arlz
Since that day the district has been
| organized and "a called the WhIppls
wash mining district and several hun
| ureu GAINS nave been located In the
new vicinity, where territory rs miles
long by three miles wide shows wonder
iul gold values. The reason the place
! mas 80 long been undisturbed N that IL
Is regular Death valley In tempera-
lure the thermometer now register ng
| close to l26 degrees nearly every day
with no obtainable water within miles
or the place Recently the skeletons OF
several prOspeCtors who had perlshed
on the desert were discovered
| Forty-hNe years ago a miner named
| jennings would periodically come out
| OF that part OF California and appear
| az Carson or Los Angeles with his
| Burro loaded down with the precious
metal, He kept his tracks well guard
! ed and was never traced TO his mys-
terious old mine. He suddenly disap-
! peared' probably persisted on the desert.
and this district has been practically
/ sealed up since them. except that three
| prospectors went I'm there a few years
| ago and this spring their bones were
round bleached and crumbllng on the
barren rocks under the powerful rays
Of an April sun.
TRACE FORMATION
When Rogers and Adams came out OF
/ Whipple Wash and showed Col. Carson
ana Mr.. Prescott their find, they were
| sent back second time and returned
! before their stories or the fabulousiv
| rich ore would be accepted although
! they were thoroughly reliable men
| Then the colonel and the banker went
In there Having long been IN the min
ing business col Carson could hardly
believe his eyes he says Well equipped
70 combat the hot April sun they traced
the remarkable naturalization for fully
rs miles
we found almost every acre OF IL
would pan gold. and much Of II ran
SO high We could scarcely believe our
eyes says the colonel
The formation is lime and por-
phyry. three miles from contact 10 con-
tact. with wonderful showing OF iron
and a great deal or oxldization," said
tho colonel. 1T IL n long row OF rel
hills. everything being strongly dis
colored by the iron, the porphyry.
quartzite and all. Brown hemitite iron
Is prevalent. too, the gold values In this
running from s6i up as high as s24s
The highest values are In the quartz
In which free gold can be seen by the
naked eye, assaying into the thou
sands"
Col. Carson and associates have taken
up i3 claims. about ECO acres Of the
ground and organized the Golden state
Mining company with 100000 shares
OF 81 par value, with 100000 shares in
the treasury for development purposes
and the private stock pooled Tor six
months Their main office Is at 80
west Third South. this city. and one NJ
Parker Ariz
Tho Cou1pquy pxpacfe 20 IN r4 "a, ,,tfth
i0-stamp mill To handle some Of the
richest ~ the free milling orc they
having discovered and secured probably
the only spring available IN the entire
district But on account Of the Intense
hot weather they do not expect 10 CON
struct their mill before September when
sufficient development work will have
been done aud when moderate weather
conditions prevail.
The Golden state Mining company
owns 1000 foet, or over mile and a
half Of property on the vein by hair
mile IN width
ASSAYS MADE.
lot Of assays have been made by
various salt Like assayers, some OF
which are as follows: From the Eagle
Eye claim the lmanite quartz ore went
p ounces silver: gold. 1870 ounces; value
OF gold alone, s2.6Oo red oxide iron
and dccompOsed quartz from the same
claim showed gold values OF $50: an
other ASSAY from another claim went
s6l,6o In gold from the Shamrock,
which is over mile from the Eagle
Eye. one assay went silver I. 20 ounces:
gold, IL 10 ounces; value Of gold. SEAS.
Lime spar from the Eagle Bye went
$3.50 In gold, showing wen In lead and
silver which were not assayed,
The company is keeping only q suf-
hCient force Of men on hand To look
after their monuments. and guard tho
ore they are piling up at the gopher
holes but little attempt Is now being
made at real mining.
This fan things viii hum down on
Whipple WASH" says Col. Carson "as
II looks To me as II we have discovered
one OF the biggest things since the days
when gold was found In California. The
Bailey Brothers are shipping out OF
there now on burrus. 10 III Paso, Their
property Is called the Klondike. and
shows some very rich rock The stun
they are shipping runs from sl0s to $500
J W. Garrett, an old miner who has
made and lost fortunes near there for
years, has taken up some claims; 80
have Sternborg and Brown. and a man
name Christensen. j. w. Horseman,
another old time miner has taken up
over 100 claims. 10 would be- no trick at
all to take out $500 high grade a trip
on borros from any OF the best claims
And with all this showing. we ha, emit
a 10-foot shaft yet.
ON ARIZONA SIDE.
"Ovor at copper basin on the Ari-
zona side whore there is an ample
water supply they have been taking
out high grade ore for 10 years, the
best OF II running from $500 To 81 100
TO the ton. Here Lee Bowman and
friends sold a property recently 20 an
English syndicate for s30O,OO That is
only six miles from US, but across the
river. The clara Consolidated near by
rs working near $50 men, the Planet and |
the Swansea properties are employing /
about 1000 men now. at the RUDY quite |
a force, and the Quartz King from 20 20 I,
so men"
letter date June from Cashier
Prescott Of Parker Says THE boys /
are out at work Jarrett Of the Copper /
basin has located extensions on our |
property The Needles Smcltcr has /
man I'm here now He says they are /
going 20 come in here strong as soon /
as the weather gets cool. These people |
are Just waking up To the possibilities 1
of this country There were six Denver /
men out the other day, struck this hot |
wave and turned back. These men of /
the north ought not TO come In during I
the summer ! think We ought 80 start i
work on the \. a H. andthe Shamrock. 1
There are l5 tons OF ore piled up on the I
shamrock now. and I want 10 sink on /
that f-foot vein ON the A. 4 u. claim. 4
Charlie wants to open up the GLORY 1
Hole he found which Is or the main I
e-gfu Il MIXTURE rock bilf only IA ]