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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1912)
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY ! rrMMont ,. Wlllsni H.TaH Vine I'ro.l'lxnl . Jemeea.rlheimaa Arwralary til Klein Philander C. Knai iieriery nl Treaetire Kraaklln MarVelgh poreiary nl War Jacob H luiktuenn 1 Attorney tiiineral Omwire W. Wlfkiheia I Pnetntaater Haneral Frank II. Illlrltixink CAMP HIGH GRADE PRESENTS ANOTHER BONANZA GROUP OF GOLD MINES STRONG CORPORATION FORMING TO OPERATE THE RICH MERGER COM- BINATION IN THE CORE OF THE MINERAL DISTRICT Local Capital Assured Sufficient To Make Property a Big Dividend Producer-Mines Recom mended By Distinguished Authority Secretary pi Navy Ifttirgv V"tl l Mever ftecreiary Interior , Vt . A. flatter reiary ol Agrliutltii Jimn Wllana eeretrryol Commerce t'harli'i Natal t'hlal Jualloe Charlna Kdward !iia IT. H. Vaiielon I ommlMlmier W. N. Hloharda U. M. Land ( ouiinlaelnuer rriTS. Uovtirnor M .Oewale) Waal tecretary ol Hlale Hctt w . Olmit freataurer Trine. H. kef Attorney iloneral ....A. M.t raw lord ui. I'ubila Inairuntlna I- K. A Mar man rrlnior.., W, 8. Uuulwej Dairy and food Uum , I. W. Katie n m M..i..r. I Jnsailian Hoiirne.Jr. O.S. Senator J Upu fc , lt.11,brri,l, ITBBMBCOCBT Ublaf Juetloe M.S. See A thrilling chapter in the story of Gain that ha captivated mankind since the birth of civilization ia now being penciled in eharactera ot gold among the crags and chasms of Camp High Grade. It ia the aame old lore of the bill that baa come to farm and hamlet and busy mart and startled the globe with atoriea of fabulous wealth, and that baa forced the race onward and upward by the eountlese millions it baa added to the wealth of the World. It ia another chapter in the wonaerful volume of Dollar and Cents, that cornea directly from the bosom of. Mother Earth at the magical touch of kilt and under tb irresistible influences of propery directed intelligence. It relates a modern tale of "Allad din," baaed uuon the bard stubborn facts of favorable geological condi tions, and mineral disposition in the Hills of High (Jrade by the great Alchemist by chemical agencies which have operated in their seam and fis sures during long centuries gone. No other story baa ever ao universally captivated the buman race, or ao thril led the buman heart with its wizard power. No other legend baa been in acrited In letters that so dazzled and amazed. No other- tradition has ever been repeated that so completely mast ered the listeners. The lure of gold bas elevated man kind to a realm where be speaks through space and atanda face to tace with his maker. The lust for gold baa ruined aspirations, wrecked fortunes, crashed hopes, desolated b"ies, de vasted empires, crumbled thrunts, and changed the mapa of continenta. Nearly Two Billion Dollars in Gold The great state of California leads all the world in the production of the yellow metal. The history of this matchless commonwealth ia vastly more entertaining than the perusal of all the romances that have been written and read. Since the first discovery of nuggets in the sands at Salter's Mill, in 1 Dorado County, by Marshall in 1849, California has poured into the commerce of the world nearly Two Bil lion Dollars in gold. No other sec tion on the globe can boaet of ao grand a record. And today, California leads all of the states of the Union, and all the nations of the earth in gold pro duction. The great "Mother Lodes" and "Ancient Kivr Beds" of the very ap propriately named "Golden State" baa transformed hundreds and thousands of people from the realm of poverty to affluence. The list iB a long and glorious one. It is increasing as the years come and go. To it will be added the names of many now unknown in the world of finance and affairs. Wbat tbey will accomplish, and. how their ucccsa may influence the commercial world, remains to be written. But that they will add still brignter luster to the proud old name of California ia certain. The eves of Wall Street and the great money marls of the World are always turned toward Calitornia. Here they feel assured they can look with safety for a guarantee that their in vestments will reajlt in a majority of figures and amounts upon the credit side of the ledger. Here they are con vinced is the one locality above all others wherein capital may be multi plied many times over, and where the pittance of tne poor will return fortun es that will make them rich. An Old Gold District In the extreme Northeastern corner of California, in Modoc county, up amid the peaks and dykes and ledges of the Warner Range, looking serenely and proudly down upon two of the richest agricultural valleys on the earth, is now systematically and prac tically developed one of the greatest gold camps ever discovered. Its pres ence has been known In a way since 1871, when eld "Gooae Lake Mining District" was organized at the home of Wm. Cogswell, five milea north of New Fine Creek. The district has been prospected mire or less by dif ferent parties Bince that time. For the lent rive years its wealth ot float scat tered over the square ot territory, baa been the theme of common comment by mining men all over the country. When the N.-C.-O. Railway was com pleted to Lakeview, Oregon, through New rine Creek, on the California and Oregon state line, laat December, prospectors and miners began coming Into the district, and they are atill coming. High Grade a New Gold Camp These argonauts of many camps, these veterans of the mountains, found conditions in general that surprised and pleased them, and values in the rocks that amazed them. They could then readily under land why N. E. Guyot, to whose stuck and push is due much of the camp's popularity, and who christened it "High Grade" should give the district this name. Tbey foui.d many properties that have been pros pected in s desultorv wsy for several years. Tbey found two stamp mills and one Chilean mill in the ramp, but none operating, because of a lack of ability and enterprise on the part of their owners, more than anything else. Tha two stamp mills are now in operation, and they are aaving the values. They found thousands of feet of development woric in the district, and sufficient work on some of the claima to properly place them In the Hat of real mines. Tbey found float on the Sunshine and Yellow Jacket that exceeds $20,000 per ton in value. Tbey found ore sacked from that property, the first shipment from which netted over S200 per ton. Thev found hundreds of tons of a good grade of milling ore on the Big Four, upon which the stamps are pounding this week. They found the Consoli dated shaft down 200 feet on a well defined ledge in which a strike of pic ture rock was made s week ago. They found s 800-toot tunnel driving to cross cut the vein ot S100 ore in the Sunset, snd from which vein tellurium was taken that assayed $20,000 per ton. Chimneys Filled With Gold The geological conditions and com bination of High Grade are. in many respects dietinctly its own. No two mining districts have ever been found to be alike. Many features rosy be and are similar. But distinguishing quap'tiea must be met and mastered be fore the greateat success csn be attain ed. The immense specimens ot brec ciated matter found both in float and in place in High Grade, renders it possi ble and legitimate to place any prob able limit within the bounds of reason on the future output of the district, es pecially when the bonanzs vslues secur ed for tests of many of these ssmples sre considered. This breccis settles tne fact that geyser action bas been widespread and intense in the district. And geyaer action is admitted to be one of the surest, as well as one of the greatest, depositors of mineral in na ture. That large and exceedingly rich geyser chimneys will be encountered here, there can be no reasonable doubt. And that these geyser chimneys will make millionaires in High Grade, as thev did in Cripple Creek is equally certain. Yellow Mountain is admitted to be the ancient seismic or volcanic center of the district when convulsions occa sioned by stupenduous subterranean forcea piled the Warner Range up among the clouds, intruding vast dvkes of porphyry, or altered rock, and rending the new geological struc ture with numberless fracturea or fis sure veins in which for ages was churned the broken fragments of rock shattered by volcanic action in thermal waters carrying mineral in solution. When this process was completed, the hot water and broken fragments were cemented toge her and became cool, forming what we term "breccia," which in many instances is immensely rich in the mineral it haa thus obtained. The Merger Mine In the center of this maiebless gold area iB located the Merger group of mines, consisting of Merger No. 1, Merger No. 2, and Merger No. 3. They extend up almost to the summit of Yel'ow Mountain, embracing an area which haa for years been noted for the regularity of its formation, and the phenomenal values of its ores. It is surrounded by such properties aa the Big Four, The Huckleberries, Consoli dated, Alturas, Josephine and Seven Lakes. To the north is the Sunshine and Yellow Jacket. The Merger group commands the at tention and confidence of every mining man tnat haa visited it. Opened at different points by shaft, tunnel and drift, and disclosing the same favorable features as to the amount and richness of its vein material, it bears all the ear marks of sn exceedingly rich mine. The Merger property is owned by Mr.'Cbsrle L. Fulton, who has so successfully managed the promotion of the Sunshine High tirade Mining Com pany, lis Is now incoporatlng a com pany to operate ths Merger claims, and this organization will be oflicered and controlled by local men equally popular and influential as those who compose the directorate of the Sun shine Company. Tha High Grade Mer ger Miners Company la the name of the new organization, and it will consist ot some of the best men of Nsw 1'ine Creek and Lakeview, Oregon. Coarse Free Gold Mr. Fulton will be general manager of thelligh Grade Merger Minea Com pany. He is now busy planning pre liminaries for erecting new bulidinga, installing a gasoline hoist, and continu ing the sinking of the shaft into the vast gold deposits and veina whiih, reasonably certain, lie deeper down. The ahatt ia now 40 feet in depth, with 50 feet of drifta. At the breaat of the east drift the vein is nearly four feet wide. From this drift a brown talc is secured which pans the coarsest and darkest free gold yet encountered in the district. Quartz haa teen taken from the vein which assayed over $50,000 per ton. The Merger Mines Company Tbe company will be capitalized at ' 1.000.000 aharea of the par value of SI. 00 per share, and treasury stock will be started on the market at 10 cents. A brisk local demand for organization stock subscriptions is in evidence. A miner st the mines wss the first to head the list for 10,000 shares. Men on tbe ground and men who know tne ground will buv Merger Minea stock. If the Merger group fails to show up one of the great minea of the West, then old Nature has played some prsnks in the Warner Range that would mystify tbe gods. The grouo posaesae every favorable symptom which cbraracterizea the making of a rich mine. Its geological features sre splendid. Its location is fine. Within bslf a mile of the grouo is the Big Four mill, now in operation. From mine to mill it is down bill all the way. Just below tbe properties is a fine stream of the finest mountain water, with several springs, and one iron spring. And upon every side is a thick growth of the best mining and lumber timber in tbe West. A good wagon road crosses tbe property, lead ing from New fine Creek and the new town of High Grade to the new, town of Branley and tbe Consolidated mine and mill. Branley is only hall a mile from tbe Merger group. Twelve sacks of high grade ore sre now stored in one of the csbins at tbe property. This ore was taken from the rich pay streak in the east drift of tbe 40 foot level and in sinking tbe shaft on Merger No. 2. The mine is only six miles from New Pine Creek depot on tbe Nevada-Call-fornia-Oregon Railway which is reach ed by one of the best mountain roads in tbe West. Itleh Hhowings on Surface The Merger presents vaatly greater indications of phenomenal wealth with in Its boundaries than did the Portland, Independece, Wild Horse, Last Dollar, Mary McKinney, or Raven of Cripple' Creek, the Camp Bird of Ouray, Little Johnnie of Leadville, or Consolidated or Mohawk of Goldfield. The eeneaj tional values it has returned Irom the 40 foot level, the persistence and reg ularity ot the vein, the very fine quali ty of the quartz, the numerous intru sions of silicified porphyry over the en tire area of the property, offers to the investing public far and away be yond the ordinary; something legiti mate and as absolutely certain to bring handsome returns in a very short time, aa it is possible for a practically un developed mining property to offer. In Line With Dig lJonuiiy.au Located on a general line with the great Nevada camps that have made men dizzy with their immense profits possessing many better natural aasur ancea of value and permanency, there is no reason to doubt but that the Mer ger group will be on the tongue and In the minds of mining men all over the world. It may not equal old Comstock with its proud record of Six Hundred Million Dollars, from some of the pro ceeds of which the Southern Pacific Railroad was launched and the first line completed, from which the first Alan tic Cable was laid by Cyru W. Field., and from which Uncle Sam borrowed million of dollars with which to carry on the War of the Rebellion. It may not parrellel tha Independence, which grabbed Stratton from his carpenter's bench and In three short veara placed In his till Ten Million Dollar. It may not duplicate the fabulou for tunes extrscted from the other great mines mentioned. And then, upon the other bsnd, it may outstrip .the ma turity of them. .Merger May be Richer than the Itlcheftt Tho Merger may pale the beat prop erties in Goldfield or Crlppls Creek in to Insignificance. Down in the throats of those old geyaer chimney may be lying dormant richer deposit of gold man the world has ever known. Cer tainly all of the value did not bubble up and land upon and near the aurtace. Somewhere down in those great caul dron of a bygone age is bidden wealth greater (ban that ot Orien'al Empire. Omnipotence did not employ legerde main chemistry in the conatruction and completion of High Grade dyke and vein and chimney. The same In gredient used in depositing the S20, 000 values in the Sunshine and tbe Sunset, and the 150,000 ore in Merger No. 2, could certainly not have been confined to a tew small and isolated crevices in this district. Somewhere there certainly must be more of this material in quantity that will denom inate the mine in which it ia found "A Bonanza." The best practical mining men of the world have visited Camo High Grade, and without a single exception not one of them has gone forth and denounced the district. Some bave failed to form a conclusion, but have always given tbe camp tha benefit of the doubt. While they claim that It is a problem to be solved by powder snd stael, yet they sdmit snd admire the preaence of high grade ore on tbe sur fsce throughout the district. Tbey place the Merger group at the tp of the Hat aa a comer. They pro nounce it a great mine, now, in its In fancy. And its youth i to it credit snd in its favor. All of the mineral it ever contained is (till there. It ia not a worked out bole in tbe ground, a gutted property, a reminiscence of glory that bas departed. It presents to tie publie a hive with all of it iioney untouched. It come to the Investor in the bloom of youth with all of its allurement of splendid promise in gol den harvests and successful and satis factory consummation. Its greatness and its grandeur, in the future, to be enjoyed mutually by those who now as sist in its development, and its vsst gold deposits will be turned over to those who become interested in it. The writer haa spent a third of a centruy among the mining camps of the Weat. From Leadville to High Grade nearly all of the new camps have noted his presence, and he is fsmiliar with most of the old districts. And the con clusion reached now, after four months of careful inveatigation as to the situ ation in High Grade, ia that it is "Tbe Greatest Gold Camp In History.' Illg Money and Merger Htoek I have made a searching and care ful investigation of the Merger group, and unqualifiedly pronounco that prop erty the moat promiaing in the district. If I were a gambler. 1 would atake my pile on it. If I were wealthy, I certainly would Invest heuvily in it. As it ia, I -have ordered 5,000 shares of stock, and Jeel that it is one of the fortunate financial movements of my life. I have made and lost money in mining stock for many years. I have never inveated with a atronger leeling of security than experience over my investment in Merger. It it wins, 1 will "rake in" a jack pot. It it fails, my investment will not pauperize me. If I want to turn looae while High tirade fever iB p I can win a hand some profit. If a atrike is made like those made recently in Sunshine, "Lucky Dutchman," and Corfaolidated, it will send the stock skyward. If the property plods along, it will be as aato aa farming or merchandising. The mine being right, and the men behind it right, and the district rapidly aurging to the front, I can conceive of no better chance to win big money and quick money than by investing in Mer ger stock. T. A. Monre teauclate J sailor , r. a. Hum 1 11. J. ttan "1U.H. Hnr It. A. Moll a Ml una uivs Jtipnaai twrraiev ludge ....Henry L. Rerun Attorney U. V. kuykeadall J ilnl Senator... ite preventative LkulaUkTIVB , II. Mxrrymaa 111 I' Itelkaep W LTnompanu u a. Land orricjc trthiir W. Orion Hrflalar 'r4 I' Cronetnlllar Hlfr rokKitr UfHi k ()llbM ll. Rrown Nuiwrvlaor Naixin i. mutual (irailna. Aaalalaut Normal! 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