The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-17
CALIFORNIA CAPITAL
REEVES OLD FIELD
Mammoth Consolidated Com
pany Will Drive Long Tun-
mel for Eureka Ledge.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune
BAKERSFIELD. Cal, Nov l6.-Not in
the last twenty years has there been so
much activity IN mining In the old Cali
ente district, once famous as producer
OF hlgh-grade ore, as at present Excel
lent results obtained by a few companies
and private individuals during the last
two or three years have attracted notice
In the mining world, with the result that
operators not only OF California. but
other states. have turned their attention
to the old district. Within the last thirty
days numerous transactions have been
made that insure the rejuvenation of the
camp
After two years OF systematic prospect
Ing tho Mammoth consolidated Mining
company. operating what is known as the
old Eureka group. southeast OF the town
OF Caliente, and near the town of Lou
raine, is preparing to drive q '1100-foot
SrosSeut tunnel that will give vertical
depth of 700 feet on the big Eureka
ledge when encountered. On tho surface
OF the mountain the ledge shows a width
or sixty feet and the property Is known
as low-srade proposition.
To drive the tunnel TO the ledge Will
require eight months time. TO facilitate
operations, the company will install a six
drill compressor and the necessary other
power gasoline engine.
That the ledge Will be revealed by the
proposed tunnel IN distance OF HOO
feet is based upon disclosures made in
prospecting the ore body TO depth of
200 feet by a series of tunnels during
the last two years. during which time
force OF miners has been continuously
employed on the property. With the in
| stellation OF machinery. the working
force Will be materially Increased, and
the development of tho property will be
prosecuted on an extensive scale. The
stock of the company is held by Mime
sofa and Pennsylvania capitalists.
During the last thirty days. A. c.
Thomas OF Bakersfield. and associates,
| have taken over from III. ii. Blood OF San
Francisco. and associates. the Gold Peak
property and have resumed it's develop
| ment by driving tunnel TO tap the orc
shoot. Tho bore Will be driven dis
tance Of $50 feet and II is estimated that
| II will give a like depth on the ore body
| that was originally developed TO depth
| OF $50 feet by tunnel further up tho
| hill
The property has to It's credit a pro-
duction OF 100000, shipments of ore
| TO that aggregate value having been made
years ago; 1t is equipped with ten
[ stamp mill and cyanide plant. it having
| been erected three years ago.
William p. O'Meara OF Los Angeles and
associates recently acquired from A. Well
| or Bakersfield and associates the Cowboy
| mine Since taking hold OF the property
the new owners have cleaned out the old
| workings and revealed the ore shoot that
| was lost several years ago. Tho miners
| employed are at present sa cklnC ore val
ued at 500 a ton and the first carload
| shipment Will be made TO the Selby smeIt-
| ers at San Francisco IN the near future.
The mine originally shipped some OF the
! richest rock ever sent out OF the old
CalIente district.
Operations on large scale have lately
been resumed on tho Barbarossa property.
recently taken over by Mark Carr and
| associates OF San Francisco from Ben
| Parlow and partners Of Bakersfield. on
tho surface of the lill tho old Barbarosss
ore shoot shows 4 continuous length ot
200 feet, with ain average width of ten
feet Twelve tons of ore, assayng S35 a
In the Huntington mill on the property
the Caliente district IS also showing
signs OF renewed Nfe. Charles Olmstead
OF New York recently acquired from c.
A, Barlow, w, II. Hill and Dan Trcsse
the Tressel property In that district and
put q crew Of miners to work driving a
tunnel. Excellent results have alreedy y
been obtained and the repair OF the five
foot Huntington mill, on RancherIa creek
below the mine, is now In progress. pre-
liminary to ore reduction operations.
Only recently a bar OF bullion, valued
at $4,000, was shipped TO the Selby
smelter from the flve-stamp mill on the
Jeanette property in the Pluto district
owned by A. D. G. Mckay and associat tes
The shipment was the second made this
year. bar Of bullion Of like value having
been sent to the smelter last May. -Four
men nre employed eat this mine.