Show the king mine 1 I from the los angeles mining review 1 I 1 5 I from the los angeles mining review the village of Pi cacho san diego county california has a population of about 1000 it has for the last forty years been mainly supported from the dry placer mines in the largest and in all probability the most important cyaniding cyan iding mining proposition in all this southwestern region the crushing capacity of the mill is 1000 tons daily but the capacity is yet insufficient be W jams 4 4 OW ak ki 4 california KING MILL ON THE COLORADO RIVER KIVER picacho basin which have yielded a very large amount of gold how many millions of dollars it would be difficult to determine these dry placers consist of mesas and washes and which have resulted from the continued washing and erosion of th the great outcroppings outcrop pings of quartz almost everywhere visible in the picacho basin legend has it that many a pan of virgin ground has yielded as much as 1 00 but it is quite possible that the intervening years have not tended to diminish the amount which the ground is said to have then yielded one thing in ln the present day is however indisputable it is that although these dry placers have been worked over and over during the last forty years the mexicans continue to work them and to extract from them sufficient gold to provide for their wants until recent years the village of picacho was only reached by a burro trail via yuma on the arizona side of the colorado river some twenty four miles distant the river steamers made periodical calls at the landing on their trips up and down from the needles at the present time the california king gold mines company has a railway from its mines at picacho to its milling plant on the colorado river a distance of four and one half miles this company of which some views of its property are here presented is ing only about the equivalent of tons at the village is a school house with regular attendance eight months during the year the village also rejoices in a good hotel owned by the california king gold mines company hospital with physicians residence a large general merchandise store belonging to the company stores belonging to others residences of the companas comp anys officials several private buildings and saloons all freight for the company and for others is brought by steamers either up from yuma arizona or down from the needles in california perishable goods are brought to picacho from the landing by stage which also brings in the daily mail the trip by stage is made in five hours there being a good road all the way one of the views here shown is that of the companas comp anys cyanide plant standing on an eminence on the bank of the colorado river the plant was erected for straight chanid ing and as already stated is one of the largest of its kind in this country it is constructed ted in three units and according to recent tests made might be made available for 1200 tons per day of twenty four hours it has bin capacity for 2500 tons of ore and ten cyanide tanks of tons each together with all the necessary solution tanks zinc boxes and bullion melting furnaces there are also in connection with the plant the a assay offices blacksmith and repair shops everything in fact essential to a plant of first class character moreover it is learned that eight additional cyanide tanks have been ordered which when installed will bring the capacity up to tons per day another view here shown is that of the entrance to the large open cut on the dulcinea mine in this the company has a double track of rails running through what is believed to be the largest body of ore yet descove discovered red on its property the view presented in the photograph herewith enclosed shows the engine with its train of cars emerging from the cut loaded with ore for the mill this cut commences on the dulcinea claim and the workings extend and WN 1 W 44 V 0 ft 16 mw L 1 A ng OPEN CUT IN THE DULCINEA california KING spread out on either side taking in the northwest corner of the mina rica claim and the south end of the north belt and running directly ahead into the old mars mine at the end of this cut there is a shaft feet in depth the ore in this shaft is reported to have an average value of 5 per ton from the bottom of this shaft drifts have been run in all of which good ore is found within the last ten days some new ore bodies have been uncovered concerning this new discovery the yuma arizona sun in its last issue says the discovery of the new body is another illustration of being able to see into an ore body as far as a pick point can enter and no farther the greatest gold nugget ever found in australia st ralia if not in the world was found near the bottom of an abandoned shaft the new ore body at the picacho was uncovered in the face of an old abandoned drift it appears that when the property was being the california king at Pia chaco haeo it is stated that this was found in the first blast fired in the face of an abandoned drift that had been driven a number of years ago the resumption of this almost forgotten drift has opened up an immense and continuous ledge that will supply sufficient ore to admit of work to the limit of the mill capacity if sufficient cyanide be provided the at present is said to be but about tons and for some time it has been found difficult to provide even that amount of ore this fifty foot ledge will easily supply twice that and if worked to the limit will add much to the prosperity of the company to picacho and to yuma some very fine specimens of ore showing native gold from the polar star mine at grass valley cal has been exhibited in salt lake of late and it is reported that the mine is in excellent physical condition 61 V tl iv VIEW AT THE VILLAGE OF operated by mr blaisdell frank guerra was his mine boss work was being prosecuted in this direction the work done shows the correctness of h his is judgment had he J but gone a foot farther the history of the mines would have beeri been differently written in looking for the ledge mr guerra sunk a shaft sev seventy enty five ave feet deep and then drifted thirty five feet after a careful survey gurvey of the ground the present superintendent mr R K humphrey decided to continue the guerra drift and the first blast in the face of the drift revealed the secret of the whereabouts of the permanent ledge the ore body in question is fifty feet wide and every pound pod of that fifty feet is pay ore on the same subject the yuma arizona sentinel in its issue of last week adys says the report reached this city last week that an ore body in place had been lind uncovered a at t |