Old Mines of Southern California: Desert-Mountain-Coastal Areas Including the Calico-Salton Sea Colorado River Districts and Southern CountiesFairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
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Old Mines of Southern California: Desert-Mountain-Coastal Areas Including the Calico-Salton Sea Colorado River Districts and Southern Counties
Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
Geology -- California, Southern; Mines and mineral resources -- California, Southern
Within a mile of the Menifee, in a northeasterly direction, a new
discovery was made in the spring of 1892 of a quartz vein which occurs
on a low mound at the base of low, rolling hills. The vein was small, 4
inches to a foot, quite heavily mineralized, but much broken. Two
distinct faults occurred in a length of 90 feet, where the vein had been
exposed. Two shafts were down 30 feet each, and water was coming in. The
finding of specimen rock had created quite an excitement in the
vicinity, and visitors were numerous. The rock, I judged, would pan out
about $40, but too small an amount of work had been accomplished to make
any estimate of the value of the vein possible.
CARGO MUCHACHO MINE.
In the Cargo Muchacho District, 30 miles in a northerly direction from
Yuma, the Cargo Muchacho Mine has again been in operation within the
past two years. The owners moved the mill from the Paymaster Mine to a
site near the former property, laid a double pipe-line 14 miles from the
Colorado River, and have supplied the camp with water in this manner.
The latest reports from the district are to the effect that the mill and
mine are being operated steadily, with satisfactory results.
THE PASADENA MINE.
About one mile north from the Cargo Muchacho is a vein on which several
locations have been made. Of these the Pasadena and Peterson claims are
most prominent. The vein covered by the locations has been quite
extensively opened, and possesses many of the features of the Cargo
Muchacho.
The quartz was sent, at no small expense, to a mill at El Rio, on the
Colorado River. The expense of mining was seldom less than $2 a ton;
transportation to the S. P. R. R. at Ogilby Station, 6 miles, $2 50;
transportation by rail to El Rio, 14 miles, 50 cents a ton, making at
least $5 a ton. The mill was leased at $10 per day, to which the expense
of milling was added, making fully $4 a ton more, or about $9 in all. It
was claimed that the rock averaged $16. Doubtless some of it did, but it
is probable the expense really exceeded the figures given.
With water pumped into the district it is quite possible that this mine,
and the Peterson claim adjoining, may be operated at a profit, which
under former conditions was impossible. There are many other
gold-bearing veins in the region, but none of them are extensively
developed.
EAGLE MOUNTAIN.
Unusual activity has characterized operations about that portion of the
Colorado Desert, about 90 miles east of the San Bernardino Mountain,
near the line between San Diego and San Bernardino Counties. The Eagle
Mountain District is one of these localities. The discovery of rich
placers in the dry gulches of that section resulted in a more thorough
investigation of its mineral resources and in the finding of some very
rich gold-bearing quartz. Considerable work has been done on these
claims and the prospects are considered very flattering.
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