Show NEW MINERAL MINER L REGION Gold Silver Copper Coper C and Lead on Western Edge of Death Valley It is characteristic of ot Rhyolite mining people to be among the first In every new district A new mineral section is being beins opened up on the tho western edge of Death Valley The Los Angeles Examiner gives the following account ac In which will be found mention of f several eve ral Rhyolite people In the A mountains San Ber Bernardino Bernardino Bernardino nardino county adjoining the westerly e ge of Death Valley a new mining re region region region gion is i being opened up and yet it is not so sp new for as widely scattered show snow Spanish miners worked the sur surface sura surface face a e nearly 10 years ago The new section has Just formally or organized Into the Crackerjack gold mining district The district is 1 about miles square It Is about sixty miles mits northwest of Daggett and the nearest railroad point Is Sliver Silver Lake station twentythree miles mUes distant to which the railroad has lately boen completed The district contains gold silver cop copper copper per and find lead Nearly all alt the locations In tho the district have hac been made by mining operators who have won experience In the Nevada dis districts districts and the Crackerjack is considered by these men to be a part of the mineral belt that is receiving exploitation at Tonopah Goldfield Bullfrog and Green Greenwater Greenwater Greenwater water The latter Is Joined by the Crack Crackerjack on the southeast The district is s rapidly filling up The Crackerjack Gold Mining company holds four claims on which here there is be being lug ing sunk a shaft all in ore and a three threefoot threefoot threefoot foot ledge of ore assaying and a two foot ledge l dge running per ton have been pen pend d up I Joining Jt the Crackerjack claims on the southeast John Anderson I L A AW AW AW W Johnson and A H Schlieb tz Los Angeles mining capitalists have a prop property property property erty called the Tom rom Boy Only a little development work has been done on this property but assays of the ore taken out outrun outrun outrun run up to per ton and the continuity of the ore body is shown by a canyon outcrop feet below the surface Captain John Hargrave formerly man manager manager ager of the Anaconda copper mine at i Butte Montana now a operator has rus a 3 group of claims northwest of the Crackerjack holdings with an nn L inch silver vein going up to of silver to tf the ton These Th e claims have i been bonded for Fred Bender another Rhyolite opera operator operator operator tor holds sixty claims showing surface values at the rate of 41 Interested with Mr lr Bender are Oscar Seals SealE James Mc McAuley McAuley McAuley Auley E B Van Fleet and L P Kimball Kimbail also of Rhyolite Moore and Tomlinson rom linson of have havea a group of claims for which an offer of has been turned down The Beck Wilson group has an out outcrop outcrop outcrop crop of ore from six to twelve feet wide wi e and running feet The workings yield oro ore from 1155 to 75 per ton Among the fine finc showings In copper are ate those made by Captain McLaughlins group with ore carrying 15 per cent red metal and by b the Peggy group belong ing ir to Jack Anderson one of the Tom TomBoys Boys Foys owners and others On the latter there is an ore blowout twenty feet wide 1400 feet long and ard rd assaying as aing 3 34 per p r cent Jack Anderson on and others have a group grUP of claims with ore showing 57 per percent cent sent in in lead and in addition high values i ii 1 gold silver and copper Mr Anderson will begin the sacking of lead at once 4 Shorty Harris locator of the first Bullfrog mine is numbered among the most confident of the districts locators The district has already alread had its first milling yielding in ill a short run a gold goldbrick goldbrick goldbrick brick worth 1200 the output being that of Rose Palmer Bullfrog Bull rog operators Another mill is being put in by the Desert DesHt King Mining company com pan a Los An Angeles Angeles Angeles geles corporation which has done the most extensive development work In the district having driven a tunnel feet OIA A townsite will be laid out at once ad jacent to the Crackerjack claims and a stage line Is soon to tt be oper operated operated operated from Silver Siler Lake station The new newtown newtown newtown town will also be connected shortly r by telephone with the railroad station a company for the construction of such line laving been practically organized o |