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12 MINES, MINING AND PROSPECTS IN GREAT SOUTHERN REGION CONCENTRATOR WORKS WONDERS SAVES NEARLY ALL VALUES IN PLACER GROUND COOLGARDiE MACHINE HANDLES 100 TONS DAILY Controlling Syndicate Buys Old Claims In San Bernardino County from Which $360,000 in Gold Was Removed BARSTOW, Sept. fact that an entirely successful dry concentrating machine has been manufactured Is being proved every day in the week at the property of the Coolgardie Mining oompany, twenty-five miles north of this place, where the machine la handling 100 tons of placer ground daily and saving the almost unprecedented amount of 97 per cent of the values. The Coolgardie Mining company is a close corporation, owned by New York and Los Angeles parties. Although the owners of the Coolgardie property have a big proposition and know it, they showed great nerve in going in as they did and as deeply as they did before they knew that they would ever be able to develop a process that would save the gold in their ground. The Coolgardie group of placer claims was purchased two years ago from A.

S. Clark, Henry Martin. J. B. Goldsberry.

Alfred Jordan, Sam Dicus, Richard Duncan, E. A. Barnes, Ben Hemus, Y. C. Moseley, Bert Sides and John Cowell, who had owned and the property with ordinary dry washers for four or five years.

The ground is what is known as channel ground and embraces 2000 acres, with an average depth of three and a half feet to bedrock. A low estimate of the amount of pay dirt in this immense placer field is 12,000,000 cubic yards, every ton of which will pay excellent returns to the fortunate owners of the enterprise. The estimate of the number of cubic yards of ground was made by F. A. Malms of Denver and J.

P. Keene of San Francisco, who also reported the average value of the ground to be $1 per cubic yard. The ground was purchased upon their combined re- Worked in Early Days While the former owners of the Cool-J cardie ground worked it by primitive methods they took out an Immense amount of gold, as the books of the amerchants of the adjacent desert towns where they purchased their supplies, and the receipts given by Wells, Fargo Co. for gold shipped from there show a total of A goodly part of this vast sum was taken out of the ground by leasers, many of whom worked the property from year to year. As as the ground was purchased by the members of the Coolgardie syndicate composed of Henry Mountain and W.

H. Laird of New York and A. Gibson of Los Angeles, Mountain, assisted by Frank Smith, mining and mechanical engineer, set to work to devise and build a dry concentrator that would save the gold which has lain hidden in the Coolgardie field for many decades. Considerable money was spent in experimenting, and numerous theories were worked out and abandoned before the machine which have patented was built, tried out and proved a success. A successful demonstration was made three months ago, and now the company is having seven more machines installed.

They were built by a well known machine manufacturing concern in Los Angeles. When it la taken into consideration that a large sum of money was paid for the ground and then another large cum set aside for experimenting on dry concentration, the man that knows the many hardships and disappointments met with in mining will give the members of the placer mining syndicate great credit for the nerve exhibited In the enterprise so successfully carried through. Has Most Complete Camp The Coolgardie company has the most complete camp on the deserts of San Bernardino county, "when the. eeven new machines are working full blast the company will certainly have a live camp in operation. When Mountain and Smith began experimenting on dry placer machines they devolved the idea of concentration as being the most plausible method of extracting the values from tne cround with ihe least possible loss.

Experiments proved that their theories were correct, and the machine now in operation saves nearly all the values from the dirt run through It. One hundred tons le concentrated into one ton. and concentrates finished op a smaller machine made upon the same plans as the original. When the second operation is completed there remains about fifty pounds of which holds the gold values formerly distributed through a hundred ton" of earth. The residue is then easily treated by another simple profess and the gold secured in its pure has been made for patent to cover the entire Coolgardie field.

Other Los Angeles parties interested in the Coolgardie enterprise are W. M. Hine and Dr. J. B.

Reiushaw. KOMESTAKE SHIPS BULLION RUNNING CLOSE TO $25,000 GOLDFIEUX Bept. Homestake made a bullion shipment last week amounting to ibout $25,000. The bullion weighed few' ounces better than 90 pounds and it is estimated that it will yield a return of about $17 to the ounce. This is the spcoihl cleanup made by the company.

The first was made when the Texas stockholders were here several weeks ago, For some reason or other this cleanup was kept very quiet and nothing- given out by the management, though it is Indirectly tinderstood that the cleanup amounted to SII.OOO. ESCONDIDO GOLD BRICKS WILL BE ON EXHIBITION ESCONDIDO, Sflit. gold bricks, just milled at the mine of the Cleveland-Pacific company, together with samples of the ore taken from that and other mines of this locality, will be on exhibition in the hall set aside for the reception room and fruit exhibit on September the day of I In- Crape Day festival. A well informed mining man be there to explain the process involved in the production of the gold bricks. PREDATORY INDIANS ATTACK MEXICO MINE AND WOUND WORKMAN OAXACA, Sept.

attack was made on the Uosario mine recently, in tho Penoles district, by a band of Indians. Luis Lapine, the manager of the mine, has arrived in the city bringing the first correct version of the affair. He saya that the attack took place at about 10 o'clock at night, one of the miners' houses being one of the first attacked. The occupant, In an attempt to dofend himself, was shot through the body above the heart and cut on the head with a machete. Although in a srrious condition.

It is thought that nls life will be saved. Before anything of value could be taken Lapine raised a body of his men, whom hf armed, and drove the band away, tn order to call the attention of the authorities to the danger of a repetition of tho affair Lapine came into the city and interviewed Governor Pimentel, who at once ordered a number of rurales to the scene, and the mountains will be scoured for the lawbreakers. GLADSTONE MINE SHIPS SIX CARLOADS OF ORE SIXTY MEN ARE EMPLOYED IN WORKINGS Under New Management the Property Promises to Eclipse Its Former Record Located in Early Sixties PRESCOTT, Sept. August 26 six carloads of ore have been shipped from the Gladstone to the El Paso smelters. Sixty miners are now employed in the mine, which promises to eclipse its former record as a producer under the management of C.

Massey and George Flammer, who ret'ontly'started to exploit it under lease. Sinking in the shaft will be resumed soon by Massey and Flammer. They intend to carry it down another 100 feet and open the vein from that point by drifts. The shaft is now 1000 feet deep. The drifts from the 1000-foot station are being pushed ahead with good ore showing in both faces.

Some of the upper levels are also being pushed along the vein, but the majority of the miners employed are working in the stopes, which are yielding as well as anticipated. The Gladstone mine joins the Mr- Cabe find on the west, and has been operated in connection with the latter several years. Considered as one mine, the Gladstone-McCabe was the largest gold producer in the county in 1907. Operations in it ceased with the closing of the plant of the Arizona Smelting company at Humboldt last fall. The product of the mine is a sulphide, rich In gold.

It is hauled by wagon to Huron, where it is loaded on the cars for shipment. The mine was discovered in the latter 60s by Frank McCabe, when the Big Bug district was yet infested with hostile Apaches. He realized its great possibilities and held it many years before disposing of his interests in it and the McCabe mine, both of which are now the property of the Ideal Mining company. LLANOS DE ORO MINE TO BE REORGANIZED Holdings in Sonora Will Be Assumed by New Corporation Large Properties Are Incluuded A movement is now under way for the reorganization of the Llanos elf Oro Mining company, which has extensive holdings in Sonora, a short distance from Llanos station. A special meeting of the stockholders has been called for September 21 in Tucson to consider a proposition for a transfer of the proposition for a transfer of the property of the company to the Llanos Consolidated Copper Mining company.

The proposition to be passed upon by the stockholders will be the transfer of the mills, machinery, pipe lines, pumping plant and equipment of the company to a new corporation to be capitalized at $1,000,000. in consider- Etion of $350,000 worth of the capital stock of such corporation, such corporation to be owner of the mines now owned by the Relna del Oro Mining LOlmpany, and the El Tiro mine Mill some 20,000 acres of land relative thereto owned by the Sonora Quartz Mine Development company, all of which properties are about 130 miles from the United States border and situated in the state of Sonora, Mexico. In the circular sent to stockholders the Reina mine is described as having reen developed to the depth of 700 feet hlld shows 150,000 tons of ore blocked out, and the El Tiro has also been developed to the depth of 700 feet and shows 20,000 tons of ore blocked out and owns 20.000 acres of land containing large quantities of wood suitable for fuel. The ore in the Reina will average, it Is thought, over $7 per ton gold and is owned by W. B.

Tevis and 11 R. Chase. Sale of Noted Vulture Mine Recalls Cave-in Which Closed Treasure Lead VfEWS which comes from burg of the sale of the old ture mine to a syndicate of Boston people for half a million dollars has revived the old tales of the halcyon days of that groat bonanza. The Vulture has producer! many millions of dollars. It is known $16,000,000 has been taken out, besides much more that was never placed on record.

There are now thousands of tons of in sight, but the old timers aver that the richest lead of all is cut off from the out-, side world by many tons of dirt and rocks. The date of the great cave-in which hid the rich ore from the outside world has never been forgotten. Near a score of men were entombed, but after more than twenty-four hours of unceasing labor they dug their way into another drift and escaped to freedom my a stope. Another cave-in closed this way of access to the treasure. The Vulture, though it produced many millions of dollars, was always worked very cheaply.

The various owners did not timber the underworking as they should and miners knew them to be dangerous places to work. But there are always men reckless enough to work anywhere if they are well paid LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MOB NINO, SEPTEMBER 7, 1908. Mill and Dump at Johnnie Consolidated Now Undergoing Complete Reorganization Years ago this mine was operated by Mormons, who hauled their ore ICO miles across the desert of Nevada. Now a railroad passes within ten miles of the camp. At a recent meeting of the board of directors it wat proposed to organize a new company to be known as the Johnnie Mining and Milling company.

The board has already been reorganized, the Foster-Wagy people having stepped out and their places filled by A. D. Myers, Byron L. Oliver, W. R.

Mitchell and T. A. Johnson. Myers probably will be president of the new organization, according to report. DELAWARE DISTRICT GOES TO THE FRONT TO BE PLACED ON SHIPPING BASIS IMMEDIATELY After Years of Desultory Prospecting the Country Attracts Systematic Workers Who Bring Riches Out of Chaos CARSON CITY, Sept.

Delaware district is coming to the front in a manner that is sure to place it well in the lead among the new campi of Nevada before very long. While the country been prospected in a desultory way for a long time, it was only recently that work started in a systematic manner, and the result of this work has been to place the district on a shipping basis at once. James Sollenberger has just received returns from a test shipment of 300 pounds of ore sent to the Salt Lnke smelters. The sample was taken Clear across a ledge six feet wide, without sorting. The returns from the reduction works show that the ore has a value of $56.33 per ton, of which $16 is gold.

It also carries topper to the extent of lfi per cent and three ounces of This valuation is on the basis of copper at 12' i cents. The ore was taken from the Two Brothers group. Work v. ill start immediately on the claims and a shipment Will be made early month. Negotiations are under way with the railroads and smelters looking to more favorable rates, and it is thought that arrangements can be made whereby the ore can be shipped at a good profit.

On the Trapper group several leasers are working. (In the lease of Jackson and Duncan high grade ore is being Kicked from a small stringer in the big ledge and a shipment will be made In a short time. The district is heavily mineralized and the ledges are strong and well i defined. On the Two Brothers group s. veil distinct ledges can be traced for over SOO feet, and good values are obtained throughout their entire length.

Some of the ore shows free gold in the azurite, a combination seldom seen. The presence of such a large percentage of copper in the ore leads those In the district to think that ore of a greater value will be found as depth is attained. It is also regarded as an Indication of the permanency of the ledges in the district. Already considerable capital is interested "in the district, and work will be started at once on several deep shafts. It is freely predicted that before winter the Delaware district will be an important shipper.

Several more gets of leasers are planning to begin work soon. A petition is being circulated and will be presented to the county commissioners asking them to repair the road leading from Brunswick canyon to the mines. The work can be done for about $300, and considering the advantages to be gained the appropriation should be made without any hesitation. It will for it, and the real necessity of using timbers was never brought home to the owners. Vast rooms were hollowed out underground.

In many places the roofs of rooms were ready to fall. One day a roof did fall, and fell so as to block up that part of the mine in which fabulously rich rock had been found a short while before. About twenty man were imprisoned. No attempt has ever been made to uncover it. It was obviously impossible to tunnel through the rock which caved in, as it was broken up and cracked until it could no more be tunneled than sand.

To drift around required more money than the owners cared to spend. The people who sold the mine the other day knew of the hidden richness and often thought of drifting to it, but. were afraid that the tales of the extent of the strike might not be strictly true. They told other people of the hidden ore and finally found some who were willing to buy the mine and search for it. It Is understood that the first work of the Boston syndicate will be to run a drift into the closed chambers, where, history says, the richest rock ever discovered in the Wickenburg section awaits the coming of man.

materially shorten the distance from this city and facilitate the hauling of supplies, and, what is more, shipments from the different properties'. The petition is being rapidly filled, as everybody is awake to the splendid possibilities lying at the very door of Carson. TWO FEET OF SOFT TALC SHOWS IN LOGLAND LEASE Every Pound of Talc Is Sacked as Broken Down Barrel Cyanide Plant Works Successfully RHYOLITE, Sept. Logland's lease on the Bullfrog-NKtlonal bank is looking better than ever this week. The face of the south drift, the most southerly point In the least-j workings, shows nearly two feet of sofll talc, similar to that of the Shoshone.

Every pound of the talc is being sacked as broken down, and Jack is filling about twenty large sacks a day. He is rapidly getting together another shipment. The first cleanup from Logland's whisky barrel cyanide plant was mane the latter part of last week. The results are entirely satisfactory. One ton of screenings was treated, and the little gold brick weighed one and seventh-tenths ounces, which means that the plant is having values of $34 a ton.

While with only four barrelin commission, the amount of ore handled is nescssarily small, the saving shown is good, and if Jack covers th west side of Ladd mountain with whisky barrels, as he has threatened to do. the scheme will work out. The cost of cyanide, lime and zinc. shavings, says Logland, is only 75 cents a ton. During the past week Stewart Mc- Vlcar, leasing on Bullfrog Mining, filled fifty sacks with high grade ore, and they are sacking daily.

The south drift from the winze continues to expose the rich streaks. Next week they will start a drift from the tunnel level and duplicate the work done since the connection jvas made. This will afford considerable stoping ground, from which the leasers expect to take out a lot of good ore. During the week the Sixty-Six leasers have been occupied in sacking the screened ore in the bins. Fred Moesser has taken a lease on the old dump at the original shaft on the Bullfrog Mining company's estate.

By screening he has saved about thirty tons, and i.s treating the ore at the Raymond Sparling plant, dose by. GOLD MOUNTAIN iS ACTIVE AFTER YEARS OF IDLENESS After remaining idle a quarter of century, the old Oriental mine, now known as the Monarch, in Gold mountains, is the scene of activity. The property, which is now owned by Gen. James Donovan and Mike Dunn, has produced some of the highest grade gold ore ever mined in southern Nevada. The highly silicious gold ore found near the surface having gradually changed into lead-silver ores at the lower workings, was the cause, no doubt, of the suspension of operations.

A leasing bond has been granted E. H. Kennard. The busiest place in the Gold mountain district at present is Dunnville, twelve miles west of Bonnie Clare station. Quite a town has sprung up here and Mike Dunn says he will have a postoffice.

The Randolph is said to have opened six feet of shipping ore last week. All men were laid off, but told to remain, as work would be resumed shprtly. A new strike was made by F. Faulkner on his claims about three miles from Dunnville, nearly every piece showed free gold, and all panned nice, coarse gold. OLD SEMINOLE MINE IS PURCHASED FOR $65,000 The Seminole mine in Tuolomne county has been purchased by H.

B. Lind and associates. The consideration is said to be in the neighborhood of $65,000. The mine has been worked for years in a primitive way. There Is an old ten-stamp mill on the ground that was out of date twenty years ago.

The experts who examined the property say there is $200,000 worth of ore in sight that will mill better than ten dollars a ton. It Is the intention to put In a modern mill and concentrating tables. Good Showing at Green water RHYOLJTE, Sept. Spears, who has returned from Greenwater, reports that the 600 level In the Death Valley and Greenwater is making an encouraging showing. Sinking from the 1000 level be resumed this month.

Sinking continues at the Furnace Creek. MINING MEN FLOCK INTO THE DRAGOONS LEADVILLE AND VICINITY ATTRACT STRANGERS Great Western Is Now at Work, and Gold Nugget and Black Diamond Prepare to Resume Operations TOMBSTONE, Sept. from Leadville and vicinity would indicate that the camp is assuming important proportions. There is a constant stream of mining men, business men. and working men going into that section of the Dragoons of late and the rains and cheering conditions seem to stimulate interest in the district.

In regard to the accident which occurred there the other day, it seems thai the unfortunate had received a bad dose of powder smoke in going down on the bucket in the Lrf-adville No. 1. When he came In contact with the gas he became asphyxiated and fell from the bucket. He fell near the collar, and the shaft Is something over 300 feet deep. The body, when recovered, was hardly recognizable.

George W. Swain, who has been almost constantly occupied superintending the development of his mining property in the Dragoons, was in the county seat again recently and Is very enthusiastic in regard to the outlook in his district in general and his property in particular. There is a prospect cf an early and vigorous renewal of active operations in the Black Diamond at an early day. The old J. B.

Angius property will very soon the echo of active work and a iipw mill will doubtless take the place of the five-stamp affair which was moved to the Gold Nugget in the Dos C'abozns. Work on the Great Western is progressing quietly and eminently satisfactorily. The property is destined to be a bonanza. Maricopa County Booms The people of Phoenix are said to be just awakening to thp fact that Maricopa county is on the eve of a big mining boom; that Plank property, now known as the Arizona Gold and Copper Hill Mining company, located on Cave creek, nineteen miles north of Phoenix, will prove to be a second United Verde mine is not doubted by those who are acquainted with the situation. Experts who have examined the property unite in saying that the shrowlng made is fully equal to the best mines in Arizona.

Development work is being pushed vigorously at thp present working shaft, which is down about 60 feet. The indications are tttat water will be found at a depth of SO feet. Sale at Camp Creek PHOENIX, Sept. R. D.

Dixon has sold to Milton Fisk the Fort Worth Dallas mining claims and the Jackson mill site in the Camp Creek district, together with a third interest in a flvo-stamp mill on the Jackson Bite. Railroads Build Rapidly About Mina in Anticipation of Big Mining Boom Sept. J. Holman Buck, the only man in Nevada who has the nerve to run three different papers In as many communities, is in Goldfleld talking up the merits of Bodie, Hawthorne and Mina. With reference to the latter town, he is very enthusiastic over the outlook through the construction of the Hazen-Los Angeles line.

He says that the road is being built at a phenomenal speed out of the canyon In the south, and that forty-two miles of the line are open for passenger traffic. The narrow gauge road to Keeler will soon be In the hands of construction forces and changed to broad gauge. The Southern Pacific expects to have the new line in active operation by the first of the year. Mina will be the central point for the engineers, and the yards are now being cleared in anticipation of the arrival of Immense quantities of supplies. In a few days an additional freight train will be added to the schedule for the sole purpose of bringing in material from the north.

Five stalls will be added to the roundhouse. Eight miles east of Mina there is considerable excitement over tho appearance of oil indications, and several firms are drilling: In the oil sands and shale belt that extends over an PROSPECTORS RUSH TO BIG SPRINGS IN REMOTE NYE COUNTY aOLDFIELD, Sfep't. 6 Phonollte and Duluth have attracted the attention of mining men and prospectors for over a year past. It was predicted at the time of the discovery that the camp would turn out to be another Cripple Creek, as the formation to the early arrivals looked like the phonollte Colorado's big gold camp. The district Is in the northwest corner of Nye county, away from the railways and very llttte ore has beon shipped from the camp.

A. J. Hawks, manager of the Mohnwk-Duluth Mining company, says: "On this property where probably the greatest amount of work has been done there is a wide body of goldbearing rock at a depth of lOOXfeet that assays all the way from $20 'to $25 a ton. It is not the grade of ore that will boar shipping under present conditions. At Big Spring, five miles south of Phonollte, there Is quite a rush and ore is already being piled up for shipment." ESCONDIDO MINE SHOWS IMPROVEMENT IN DEPTH DISTRICT CONTINUES BTEADILY WITHOUT EXCITEMENT' Development Company's Report for August Shows Financial and Physical Mineral Re.

sources Valuable ESCONDIDO. Sept. this district work gctes on steadily with no excitement. All properties that have been mentioned as being on the working list are still here and something over 2000 feet of new development work has been done this season. The Escondldo Mine Development company's Asmus mine is showing a remarkable improvement with depth and sinking; in the new shaft will be continued.

Tne Escondido district is certninly a wonderful one and its people are among the most progressive. Four years ago on September 9 they wiped out their public debt by assessing themselves 43 per cent of their total assessed franchise, and today tho district has not a dollar of public debt. The event will be celebrated this year. Excursions will bo run to the city, where displays of minerals and agricultural products will be exhibited. Notwithstanding the hard times over the country the people of this district have banded themselves together and organized the Escondldo Mine Development company, and through this medium are fast developing Ing of great value their mineral resources.

Tor the past three months there has not been a day but that out- Bide mining men have been here looking over the camp, and several of them have become Interested. The general manager's August report i 3 now out, and shows the company In a remarkably fine condition, physically and financially. COCHISE COUNTY LEADS TERRITORY IN COPPER Auditor's Statement Gives Figures for Year County Takes Sec. ond and Yavapai Come Next According to the statement just compiled and published by the territorial auditor, Cochlse county, as usual, leads In the production of copper In Arizona. The statement gives Arizona's output for 1907 at 252,784,698 pounds of copper, Cochlse county producing 111,581,452 pounds of the red metal or almost one-half of the output.

Grahnm county comes second, with an output of 61,682,552 pounds and Gila and Yavapal counties run pretty close for third place, the former's output being 35,743,241 and the latter's 25,724,369. In the total output of mineral wealth In the territory this county leads, the value of the output for 1907 being almost twice that of Graham county. Cochlse county's output Is valued at $23,738,499.40, while that of Graham county is $12,417,653.90. The largest producer of silver during 1907 was the Tombstone Consolidated company, leading with 454,412 ounces. The second largest producer of silver Is the United Verde Copper company with 356,038 ounces, while the Copper Queen company of Blsbee cornea third with 338,723 ounces.

In copper the Copper Queen leads with 66,916,972 pounds with the United Verde second with 33,015,457 and the Arizona Copper company third with 36,794,092 pounds. The Calumet Arizona company comes fourth with pounds. Guarantee a Bonus Tucson citizens have guaranteed a bonus of $25,000 for the erection of a smelter at Twin Buttes. area of fifty by fifteen miles through the center of the old Peavlne district, and then through the range and down to Coaldale. The country where the indications are strongest Is sandstone formation that has not been disturbed since the sedimentary period.

In spite of the general Impression that there Is nothing doing In the Fitting district, Buck says several shippers are gottlng good values, tiee brothers are sending out regular Bhipments from Acme that run in the vicinity of 10 per cent copper and from $10 to $12 per ton in gold and silver. Five miles east of Fitting, at Stone Cabin Springs, D. V. Tomsen has a surface prospect from which he is taking ore that runs from $150 to $500. The section had been prospected for years for the source of the rich float that' abounded, and now Tomsen thinks he has found the main ledge.

At present he has only a six-inch streak of the high grade, but he is scarcely below the grass roots. At Luning some investors from Shasta, have taken a bond on the Fermina Serraia property of sixty for $160,000. Want to stop drinking? We can help. "Antl Fru" positively kills all doslre for liquor. Sent post paid on receipt of $2.00.

box 224 Covlna, CaL SAVANNA COPPER TO TWIN MERGER TAKES OVER COPPER GULCH AND COMANCHE RICH PROPERTIES ARE LOCATED IN BURRO MOUNTAINS New Company to Bo Big Factor in Southwest Mining in Sight for Five Work DOUGLAS, Sept. Savanna Copper company is the name the new company headed by Messrs, Hoveland and Smith of Blsbee, to take over the Copper Gulf and Comanche corn- panics, In the Burro mountains and its coming on the copper share market made one or the most successful flotations of the year, the $2 paid stock being bid at $3.25 from the outset. The Savaritoa company was organized by Messrs. Ho vela nd and Smith and their Duluth associates with a capital stock of consisting of 200,000 shares of a par value of $10 each. A half million of the stock goes to each of the merged companies, 60,000 shares to be exchanged for Copper Gulf stock and the same amount to go for the Comancho property.

Holders of full paid Copper Gulf stock will be allowed to subscribe for 66 2-3 shares of Savanna for every 100 shares of Copper Gulf, and Comanehe holders are entitled to subscribe for one share of Savanna for every 100 shares of Comanche. There have been issued about four million shares of the latter, as the full capitalization was live millions. The Savanna company will undoubtedly be a large factor in the mining industry of the southwest, as it has an acreage of mineral ground which is second to only one or two companies in the country. W. G.

Dunham, a well known mining engineer, was sent by the director's of the Comanche company to make a on the Copper Gulf company, previous to the signing up of the deal and his report showed that the statements made by President Hoveland of that company to the Comanche officials wore ultra conservative, especially ao far as the known tonnage of ore was concerned and the value of the same. The report of Engineer Dunham stated that the new company will have three shafts 300 feet deep all In ore, over 8000 feet underground openings and an aggregate of over seven miles of mineral bearing dikes outcropping on the surface. Tho report also states that there is ore enough in sight that will average 4 per cent copper to keep the concentrator, treating 800 tons dally, running for five years. LONDON SYNDICATE BUYS INTEREST IN BORAX MINES A London syndicate has taken an interest In San Bernardino borax deposits and will develop the product on a huge scale and In competition to the borax trust. The London syndicate has taken over the Colmanite Consolidated group of borax claims in the Belleville mining district.

It is understood that tho foreign capitalists have paid from $50,000 to $65,000 for the interest, and in addition the original owners are to receive stock in the new concern to the value of 6000 pounds W. B. Wuinwright of the Palm Borax company is the selling: agent, and he will have charge of the development for the new owners as general manager. The London syndicate was formed by the United African Explorations, limited, a concern which has large interests In the United States and Africa. The syndicate will provide about $60,000 as a working- capital to begin with.

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