| Show the mammoth gold lode of san saif mardino bernardino Be of captain S T curtis ons one conof of tho the present owners says the virginia enterprise wo we have some interesting te particulars in regard to the recently discovered mammoth gold sold bearing quartz lode in san ban bernardino county california the great vein is situated on a ild iid lido eide ridge 0 c composed composed almost wholly of quartzite this h ridge lies between hoi hol comb and bear valleys on the eastern slope of the sierras and about twenty five miles north of mount san bernardino one of the ill lii highest 0 peaks in southern california holcomb valley vailey is feet above the level of the sea and aud the mine ming is some hundreds eds of feet above the valley the great p ledge cuts through the ridge lof of quartzite quart zito zite wo we have mentioned and has lias been traced about two miles through this distance it crops out at intervals sometimes just above the use surface and again to a considerable hight on the claim of the gold mountain mining Comp company anys purchased by captain curtis and others and which comprises feet on the summit of the quartzite hill the lead is about pity feet wide wid e and crops out the full length of the claim to the height of from thirty to sixty feet in these crop pin pid pings C 8 gold la 14 to be seen in ill a almost most I 1 every part with the lis 11 ed ell eye even evem where the rock is aty feet above the tho surface the lowest vest As assay ever obtained which was from a piece of what seemed to bo be almost wholly quartz quartzite te yielded at the rate rato of 18 71 per ton toil from this the assays essays run far up into tho thousands A piece of t tl I 1 t ock in which not a particle of or aut jut was visible assayed in san sin fancisco PV incisco showed sh owed over per ton i in u gold wherever the lead crol crop t out gut ut gold is to bo seen with the aked eye and much that is qui v coarse curtis estimates that tl ioakem i earo care in the droppings crop pings and that cali cai 1 be e quarried out no less than 69 60 of quartz in other pla pia w along the lode the same quantity I 1 may be quarried curti curtis et t omo pome men at work on a drift 10 v ich is to be run lengthwise into to a lead a distance of feet when a depth under the droppings crop pings cell will be attained itis to make mak e crosscut cross cut this is being heing bedri done for the reason that as ye yet t nothing is known of the interior of the vel vei vein n it having only been prospected by breaking rot rork k off the Crop droppings pings tho the ake principal bleat blent locations ions lons on the I 1 lead ead are tho littel litkei eld eid tho tile hub and tiie tho mohave chief bo sides the feet of ground purchased by them curtis and party have bonded another claim of feet they have also secured large tracts of timber land and an abundance of water wood is abundant and can be had delivered at the mine for 2 21 25 per cord lumber likewise delivered can be had at from 13 to 15 per thousand labor is also cheap and with a proper 50 stamp mill ore can be reduced at a cost of 2 per ton about two tw miles from the claims of curtis co some mexicans have been at work for about two years with ar astras and have taken out a large amount of money they are on the same lead which is now now creating so much stir the big lead was discovered by one carter who had been engaged in prospecting for his bro brothern therin thenn the neighborhood at 40 per month ho he had met with but little luck and one evening r whilo while going home homo from work resolved that lio ho would quit he stopped in a ravine and stood leaning upon a 1 huge boulder ruminating turn against his hard luck the sun aun was setting and as its rays fell upon the rock upon which he was deanin leaning 9 ho lie saw particles of gold glittering all over it the next morning he went up to the top of the hill and found the huge rich droppings crop pings mentioned above the reason that the lead was not sooner discovered was owing to the fact of the whole foot of the hill being quartzite artrite no one thought of there being u ing anything else at the ehe summit A man said to curtis 1 I have been in this 1 region fifteen years and have w walked a aked abou about t that hill a thousand times when I 1 think of it I 1 feel like taking a pistol and blowing my brains out even though C there should be nothing but what is to be found on the surface the f lead is one of tho the biggest finds of the age |
