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SENSATIONAL MINING
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11—An
other old-fashioned gold rush is in
full swing at Mojave, California, on
the western edge of the Mojave Des
■ert. 80 miles north of Los Angeles.
Old and new claims are reported
changing hands for fabulous prices,
all due to rich shipments from a
property discovered in September,
1933, and now known as the New
Silver Queen mine. The New Sil
ver Queen is on the east side of
Soledad Peak, a rhyolite upthrust in
the Mojave plain, seven miles south
of Mojave, and 12 miles north of the
Los Angeles County line.
Engineers Attracted
During the past few months the
heavy production from this propei;
ty and the size of the veins in the
mine has attracted to Mojave many
mining engineers of international
reputation, including representa
tives of the Consolidated Goldfields
of South Africa.
One of the first among recent arri
vals was Ex-Senator Tasker L. Od
die of Nevada, who stated at Mo
java that in his opinion the real de
velopment of the camp is just be
ginning. ,
Senator Oddie issued a warning
against the impending gold rush,
but his words fell on deaf ears, as
desert rats from Death Valley, ama
teurs from Los Angeles,, old time
mining men from all points in the
southwest, rushed to Mojave in a
frantic endeavor to locate claims
within the possible productive lim
its of the camp.
Senator Oddie, who is one of the
discoverers of the enormously rich
gold camp at Tonopah, Nevada, said
that large veins such as located ir
the New Silver Queen, are seldom
isolated. For that reason he is in
clined to believe that a new silvei
camp of major importance, possibly
rivaling the Couer d’Alenes of nor
thern Idaho and the Park City dis
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trict of Utah, has been demonstrat
ed.
Big Fellows There
An engineer from San Franciscc
who kept his mouth shut was de
clared to be a representative of Og
den L. Mills, former secretary oi
the treasury. Another San Fran
ciscan was described as a represen
tative of the Bradley interests, op
erating the Alaska-Juneau and the
Bunker Hill & Sullivan.
Among the companies reputedly
represented by scouts at the end
of the week were the Homestake
Gold of South Dakota, controlled by
William Randolph Hearst; the Unit
ed Eastern of Oatman, Arizona; the
Lucky Tiger of Kansas City, now
operating in Mexico; the Howe
Sound of Philadelphia, now operat
ing in Mexico and British Columbia,
with a third development well un
der way in the state of Washington;
the Eldorado Gold, which started its
operations in Manitoba and later
switched to the Great Bear Lake dis
itrict in northwestern Canada; the
Consolidated Mining & Smelting of
Trail, B. C.; the A B. Trites inter
ests of Vancouver, who already
have some small operations under
way in the southwest ;the Kennecott
Copper, represented by a member
of the staff of the Ray Consolidated,
an Arizona subsidiary; the Guggen
heim Exploration Company; an affil
iate of the American Smelting &
Refining Company; the Anaconda
Copper Company, represented by a
member of the International Smelt
ing staff from Salt Lake City; the
United Verde, controlled by the es
tate of the late Senator W. A. Clark
of Montana, but confining its pres
ent operations to Arizona; and the
Silver King Coalition, one of the
principal silver producers in Utah.
Stake Claims for Miles
The streets of Mojave were filled
| with automobiles and the roads
leading from the town were like
j wise filled by fast driven cars head
jed for the latest reputed strike or
| coming back from a trip which had
proved to be a false alarm.
Claims were being staked for a
dozen miles in all directions, and
late comers, some of them pretend
ing to be representatives of estab
lished mining companlesfwere tak
ing options on these claims for what
looked like real money. It was sus
pected by some correspondents that
a majority of these ostensible
“scouts” were actually working on
their nerve, taking an option today
in the hope of selling it at a profit
tomorrow
Buy at $1500, Sell at $3,500,000
The New Silver Queen is reported
to have been optioned to the Con
solidated Gold Fields of South Af
rica at a price variously given as
$3,000,000 and $3,500,000. On the
property, however, operations are
proceeding as usual under the dir
ection of George Holmes, 32-year
old discoverer of the property, who
is a former student of thp Univer
sity of Southern California. George
Holmes and his father, M A. Holmes
own 60 per cent of the New Silver
Queen They also have, with Ken
neth Holmes, George's brother, a
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considerable stake in a number of
the older locations near by.
George Holmes located the ore
body in the New Silver Queen a
year ago last September. The rich
ness of the deposit was not made
known for a year, but recent ship- j
ments made it impossible to keep
the find a secret any longer The
New Silver Queen produced $40,000
in October and is now shipping
about 40 tons a day of the value of
$30 a ton.
The New Silver Queen was pur
chased from Virgil Dew and Bruce
Menard. Dew received $1,000 and
Menard $500 for the property which
is now reputedly changing hands
i for $3,500,000 Dew and Menard are
working in one of the properties on
Soledad Peak—but not in the New
Silver Queen
Adjoins Queen Esther j
The mine that started all the ex
citement is situated between two |
former producers—the Queen Esth-j
er Mine, controlled by the Seeley [
Mudd interests of San Francisco, and
the Eagle-Elephant.
Walter Bradley, San Francisco,!
state mineralogist of California, stat'
ed iQmt since the discovery of the
New Silver Queen the property has1
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shipped $200,000 in silver ore to the
Selby Smelter in San Francisco. He
said that some of the ore had run
as high as $600 per ton.
Old Idaho Camp Gone
Silver City, the famous mining
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camp in southwestern Idaho, reduc
ed almost to the status of a ghost
town for the past 30 years, has lost
its last claim to current greatness—
the county seat of Owhyee County.
At a recent election, by a vote of
nearly two to one, the county seat
was moved to Murphy, a sheep and
cattle town that was not even estab
lished until well after the decline of
Silver City had begun. Silver City
at one time had a daily newspaper,
one of the first in the west to receive
telegraphic dispatches from the fore
runner of the Associated Press. Its
population has dwindled from sev
eral thousand in the latter part of
the 19th century to approximately
300 There are many who still main
tain that the veins which produced
fortunes in the Mahogany, After
thought, War Eagle, P’tosi and other
famous mines have not yet been
worked out, and that the old camp
will again take its place as a 'pro
ducer of gold and silver.
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