| Show KEARNS IN KERN COUNTY senator thomas kearns and S W mudd recently purchased the queen esther property in the mojave district kern county california for 2 from los angeles to the mines is only seventy five miles and an expert who has been making a study of the district and who owns ground there hirn himself self C C calkins by name is authority for the statement that the queen esther could not now be purchased for mr calkins declares that the district is a wonderfully rich one he reviews at length what hat it contains in the los angeles express and tells of the kearns mudd property and what it is doing as follows within a distance of feet from the karma mill stands the queen esther dry milling ing plant the queen esther company owns a group of eight of ten claims lying immediately west of 0 the karma group I 1 do eo believe eve there is a better developed prop erty ty considering the amount of work done iii n the state the mill is handling about tons of ore a day and is shipping two carloads a day to the selby smelter which I 1 am reliably informed will run 80 to the ton the property was recently owned by thompson ball of los angeles and was sold to colonel S W mudd and senator kearns of salt lake for 1 I believe it could not not be bought today for 2000 the uniform width of the vein is twelve feets feet in sinking a about feet from the mouth of the tunnel a body of ore was exposed and the entire width of the vein will hold up to 80 to the ton in gold values daily herald |
