This property is situated but a short distance from the Kelsey Mine. The Victoria Mine was operated under English management for an English syndicate two or three years ago. Lately all operations have been suspended. The property, whatever it may be worth, is a monument to mismanagement of the worst sort.
THE LORDSBURG STAMPEDE.
In the month of March, 1892, the report went abroad that rich silver and gold-bearing rock had been found in the mountains north of Lordsburg, 28 miles east of the city of Los Angeles. So glowing were these stories that a general stampede for the new mining field ensued. Farmers left their homes, merchants and clerks in some instances temporarily closed their stores to join in the rush to Lordsburg. Unfortunately the stories proved to be unfounded, and, after three weeks of excitement, all had left the mines excepting a very few, who still had hopes of making a find.
CEDAR MINING DISTRICT.
Fifty-five miles by rail northeast from Los Angeles, on the line of the S. P. R. R., is the Cedar Mining District, the principal village being about the railway station called Acton. In the low hills about Acton, which rise out of the valley that skirts the northern base of the San Gabriel range of mountains, are located the gold mines which have been worked for many years by Mexicans and Americans.
THE RED ROVER.
This is the name of the principal mine in the district. It was located and worked many years since by Mexicans, but has during the past eight or ten years been in the hands of Americans. The vein strikes northwest and southeast, dipping to the southwest at an angle of 50° from the horizon. The rock is a white, fine-grained, saccharoidal quartz, showing in places bluish bands. It contains free gold in variable amount, with some iron sulphuret. A very large amount of quartz has been stoped from the vein and crushed in various mills.
The Red Rover is quite extensively developed, the new vertical shaft being down over 400 feet. The old inclined shaft, which is sunk on the vein, is down 220 feet. Several levels are run out from both these shafts, which are 200 feet apart. The new shaft was sunk between the main vein and a spur which branches from it. A crosscut was run out toward the spur, which is opened on the surface, but it was found it did not go down. A crosscut was then run toward the main vein, which was found intact, and a drift was carried in 60 feet on the vein.
The country rock is mostly massive metamorphic, very much broken and faulted. Nearly every mine in the district has been displaced more or less by these faults. For some reason the Red Rover has been shut down for some months past. It is understood that operations are to be resumed.