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.
A cemented basin has been constructed to catch the rain water that falls during the winter season, with which it is intended to work the placer mines. The discoverers of these mines, it is said, took enough gold from the gulches, in making the basin referred to, with a dry washer, to pay for making and cementing the basin.
COTTONWOOD SPRINGS.
Twenty-six miles in a northeast direction from Walters Station, on the line of the S. P. R. R., at an altitude of 3,004 feet, is Cottonwood Springs. A range of mountains, in which occur granitic and metamorphic rocks and eruptive dikes, strikes east and west across the desert, and in these occur several springs. There is but one mine in the immediate vicinity of the springs, and this is known as