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Show HUE STILL EXI5TSJIN1 Bonanza Ore Discovered Near' Paved Highway and Railroad at Randsburg. Romance st:'.l survives in. mining, as 'Is supsestod by the story of the discovery made at Randsburg in southern California. Califor-nia. Mention of it has appeared in our news columns from time to time. It appears ap-pears that a couple of prospectors, of :he kind known in the southwest as "desert rats." one of them being a half-breed Indian, toother with a former sheriff: of Kern county, were grubstaked by a group of citizens living at Bakcrslield. The two prospectors arc Hump Williams and John Nosser. and the ex-sheriff is John Y. Kellv. Their hackers were Alfred Har-rcil. Har-rcil. J. M. Jameson. I-:. T. Grady, J. A. Hughes. Dough 1,. Clarke and two ladies named Ftuby Sou'.hwick and Edith Coons, the last being the former assessor of Kern county. These seven subscribed S200 apiece for the venture. In June the prospectors located a claim in an oid mining district, being influenced to do so oy an outcrop tha t apparently had been ovtM'iL'ok'jJ in days gone by. The sire of the discovery is within one and one-half miles of the town of Randsburg. Rands-burg. in Sun Bernardino. It is a district known chiefly for the success of the Yellow Yel-low Aster, a gold mine of some celebrity and about cu o and one-half miles from AtoMa. famons for its tunssten. The first :'-ay of a piece cf Quartz showed 575 in silver, as nrgeutiie. A hole twenty-ore fee: square was sunk and Is n o w fi f t y . feet iie-:-- 1-erythim: that has corns out , of it has been shipped to the Selby : sM'e'ter. near Si n Francisco. The discovery dis-covery was within a hundred yards of a p; ' ed highway and only three-quarters of a im from a railroad, the Santa Ke line between Kremei and Johannesburg: so ail ;h;u the ditrgers iiad to do was to shove i he ore into a motor truck and take it to the old siding that the railroad rail-road officials hnd almost forgotten. Thev starte'1 en an eiirhrcen-Inch streak of high-gratie ore that widened to fifteen f rei. all nf it suitable for shipment In carload 'ots that averaged 150 ounces per to;i The original canital subscribed for th--" venture was IP"'0: the -fortunate ad- en'.ure:- have received S'50.00 already. 'v"i:!l Xrsser and Williams had s'mk thirty feet thev decided that a little "i-e.iiiv ironrV- WOuM be welcome, to each ne tht?m sold naif of his eighth interest f'"r ?ji'i,o "'!' aniece to a group of Bakers-ih?'d Bakers-ih?'d r.' ere! .a n ts. They still retain their respective sivten ths. Thev have located : hf- whole country around their "slory bnle." bs-Jes a tow: sUe. Reserving 600 ny SO' t feet of ground around tiie d:s-ov-ry. they are leasing the outside territory terri-tory in sect ; oris 200 feet wine and the ;';!! -A'irit-i, l.loo fet, of their property, at ro: a'ie ramrimr from 15 to 25 per cfnr. T 'e enrerprise hus been oreaniz.'d as the Pa:ir T'lvidc Mining comnany and the s'ock will be distributed anion the r.'ai,t -hs.reholders. It may be far from Tj.-;,v:vl still farther from th.e Rand, but th:.- youn mine seems worthy of its sponsor. Y.'e ould like to see thorn neve'or, it r.rd reap ti:e full fruit of t;:eir enterprise. Minir.g and Scientific Press. |