Show COPPER MINES WItH A HISTORY I Coast Bonanzas of Early Days Are T aken Over by Salt I I II SHIP SHIPPED EDg P SW SWANSEA RICH ROCK TO BLAST OUT It has remained for tor S to find and a acquire control of groups of copper claims In CalifornIa that promise to prove richer than that has talked about In this oUnh for a Jong ong time The properties not new ones either Some of them m w were re worked years rears ago and nothing has been heard of th tb i since copper became so popular af s years ago ngo The properties are some that J H Turner his hns been quietly wo lug tor or the past three or and Interested with him are Sarey heavy owners In the Copper company There Is no sh bout the properties which have hae undertaken to purchase producIng and shipping ore to SY isAA Vales IVales ag ae far back as and r turns from there show that l l titles of ore oro gOIng 30 per cent cent ent copper was shipped Three veins are covered In the thO properties acquired for a distance pr three miles and amI there Is not an open cut ft a tunnel haft hafl dri drift t raise or crosscut In Fi any of the properties that does not how hw an anywhere where from tour four to thirty feet teet of ore There are aro dumps dump that thousands of tons df rock that will run from 5 to 10 per cent copper and andas as Js Mr Turner has figures to show that the ore can me moved rIght from the min s to SElbys smelter for less es an 6 a ton he figures that he can market the dump material at a net profit of 5 to 15 per ton while ht h knows that with equipment he can produce a great ton tonnage tonnage nage of 15 per cent to 40 per cent ore at trifling cost The properties hare llave been and thoroughly sampled so far as the work would permIt and in cases wh where re rette tte tp latter was not possible he has the mine working maps and all data necessary to show what the ground contains Located on Sea Coast Two hundred and eighty miles north of ofSan ofSan San Francisco Is located the h harbor and town of Crescent In Del Dol Norte county Eighteen miles from tho town are the mines located In a country filled with bIg bg timber an abundance of water and every other condition to make mining Meal id tal The oldest property of the three Is th the Adjoining on the Is the Low DIvIde group and on the north the Union group The shaft work workIngs Ings on the have opened the mine to a depth of 45 feet taking In hi all three ot of the veIns Maps and re reports ports porte made In 1867 show what contains In Ule way of ore reserve and the amount of of and de l m rit nt I done This shaft will have to be pumped out to get a verification of the reports but judging from the t or of the Low Divide oh the south and tIle the Union on the north Mr Turn Turner r enter entertains tans no doubt that conditions will be found precisely as represented It Is Impossible to give a fair Idea of what reports made to Mr Turner on these properties show At one place the Low I Divide property there Is a opens open a ledge fifty feet teet be Fw the surface and from which 33 3 per peront ont ore was shipped In 1863 Another In the same group in ISO feet shows eight to twelve fet of ore from which shipments ot of 3 per cent rock were radi Shaft and other workings on this make almost as marvelous a This a Quarrying Proposition On nfl the Union group to the north of the most of the development has been by open cut Here the veins ary in width from ten to thirty feet and the sam ling done shows values both in the carbonate and sulphide ores that are simply startling Fifteen feet f 20 0 per cent ore here sixteen feet of 40 per c cent nt ore oye there eight feet somewhere else all running away up In the red met meta nt a and nil all carrying more or less gold and silver and helvy percentages of iron go to make what appears to be one of the biggest things out ot of doors Mr Turner has all the rEports of ore sales r U the results of sampling by his own ex cx exT T torts and samples of fhe he ore from which every test was made It is all Interesting arid and all bewildering It seems Impossible that such a prop could have gone all through the pars ears of copper opper hunting without attract ng g attention but it has and Salt Lak Lakers ers era have been the tho lucky mortals to land hand It 11 |