Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-03-11
GREAT IRON MINES OF
 ARIZONA A-CAL|fORN|A


 Pacific, the Eagle Mountain deposits of approximately 10O,OOO,OOO tons, now in Southern Pacific control; and the new beds may have an important bearing on development of steel man. ufacture in Southern California, upon which the industrial heart of this region is concentrating desire and ef- fort.
 The prospectors, engineers and present controllers of the new proper ty are Legene s. Barnes of Long Beach, who successfully concluded the Hartman negotiations in 1919, to- gether with Marcus Pluth, R. H. Cox and c. E. Roberts of Los Angeles, who are proceeding, according to an an nouncement made yesterday to mob- ilize within their control all the re- maining iron ore deposits accessible, together with coking coal interests in Washington, into practical working entente for the construction and op- eration of steel making plant on the Coast. The syndicate has prospects for it's disposition to a syndicate of eastern capitalists.
 The new ores are comprised in a range of mountains in Western Ari- zona, about $50 miles east of Los An geles, and are known to the present owners as the "Pike's Peak Deposits" :" The ore, which is exposed for several miles, has been all laid under claim; it has been surveyed and tested by the sinking of over seventy-five test shafts, and has been declared by geol- ogists and engineers to hold total of not less than 500,00O,00O tons of ore, although the present owners are satisfied with an estimate of 100000 900 tons.
 OF EASY ACCESS
 The availability of these new ores is declared to be easy, being but seven miles from the Santa Fe Railroad, only seventeen miles from the town of Peoria, AriZ., and seven miles from Nada, and forty-five miles west of Phoenix on the main line of the South ern Pacific as against a distance of siXty-five miles from the railroad of the Eagle Mountain deposits.
 The ore is claimed to be of high grade hematite, to cover large area to great depth, easily mined and loaded, while the Mayberry and other manganese properties, but a short distance away in Riverside county, California, have been acquired and brought under the same control, ac- cording to Legene Barnes, who is the active head of the syndicate.
 The Eagle Muntain iron deposits we're sold to E. H. Hartman in 1SO9, for a lump sum of $1,512,0O0, and it ] was currentlX- -renorted 2 couple of the property. This rapid appreciation in value and the growingly insistent demand for a steel shelter in South ern California, put impetus behind the efforts of the present syndicate, in the determination to put all unexplored lands under scrutiny, with the resul- tant discovery now for the first time made public.
 CONTROL REMAINING DEPOSITS
 As the result of the Hartman ex- perience, it was determined to get control of all remaining ores; and in addition to the great Pike's Peak tract, five other nearby deposits have also been acquired, in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, California, aggregating 65,000,000 tons of ore in sight. These iron deposits are known as the 'Virginia Dale," the "Choco- late Mountain," the "Bagdad," the "Marie Mountain" and the Mineral" deposits, all of which have been ac- quired by MT. Barnes and his asso- ciates. To this they have also added rich limestone deposits at Whitewater, and to round out a steel-making en- terprise they have also taken over what MT. Barnes calls the "Johnson" fields of coking coal at Bellingham Bay, Washington, with nine working veins in a total of fourteen veins and a total deposit in sight, of 30,O00,OOO tons of excellent coking coal, easily available for economical mining and shipment by water.
 l Negotiations have been begun for the disposition of these properties as a practically workable steel-making combination to eastern capitalists, ac- cording to the statement made by MT. Barnes, and he expects to leave for the East in a few days, accompanied by a representative of the customers who has been on the ground here for some time with view of securing a line on local conditions and prospects, MT. Barnes points out that all lands not surveyed at the time. of the Eagle Mountain sale have since been thoroughly gone over and that it is definitely assured the new deposit, with those added to the syndicate's holdings constitute the last remaining ores in the southwest, outside of Mex l ico, and that if these ores are ever to be the base of a steel industry in Los Angeles, it is important that they be