Southern California; . mill, working down through thevarious stages by the force of is first crushed by the great steel-shod stamps which rise and fall witha deafening noise, pounding up theore and mixing it with a stream ofwater into a liquid pulp. It thenpasses over the steel plates coated withquicksilver, and finally over the rub-ber bands of the condensers, particlesof gold being extracted at each stageof the are gold mines and rumors of mines scatteredall along the Mojave Desert, from The Needles to Victor,including Oro Grande and the now famous camp atRandsburg,
Southern California; . mill, working down through thevarious stages by the force of is first crushed by the great steel-shod stamps which rise and fall witha deafening noise, pounding up theore and mixing it with a stream ofwater into a liquid pulp. It thenpasses over the steel plates coated withquicksilver, and finally over the rub-ber bands of the condensers, particlesof gold being extracted at each stageof the are gold mines and rumors of mines scatteredall along the Mojave Desert, from The Needles to Victor,including Oro Grande and the now famous camp atRandsburg, but they do not by any means exhaust themineral resources of these wonderful mountains andplains. The most extensive borax mines in the worldare located here, and salt is taken out of the mountainsin great crj-stallized blocks. Here too, are quarries ofmarble, granite and lime, with innumerable other min-eral treasures to be developed by the intelligent appli-cation of brains and capital. The mines, situated as they ar
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