Show jackling jac kling lands another copper information which has been sifting through california sources during the past two weeks makes it very plain that colonel D C jackling has determined to make one more big copper proposition fulfill a worthy destiny by converting it into a dividend earner and producer of note very recently according to report mr jackling purchased a controlling interest in the dully bully hill copper mining smelting smelling Sm elting company from the general electric company of schenectady tady N Y and is now making preparations for the operation of the mines and reduction plants at winthrop shasta count california on a gigantic scale it was announced in a dispatch from redoing redding the other day that all of the fabricated steel in the buildings and works of the old balaklava Balak lala property at coram had bad been purchased by mr air jackling and was being moved to winthrop where it was to be utilized in the construction of new and extensive reduction works for the bully hill where the preliminary work of grading is now under way the dispatch states there are about carloads of structural steel and that mr Jac klings purchase does not include the furnaces air compressors and other machinery at the balaklava Balak lala works bully hill properties and organization the bully hill copper mining alining smelt ing company was incorporated in 1900 under the laws of new jersey with a capital of in 25 shares the capital stock was reduced in 1905 to 1 according to weeds mines handbook bonds amounting to were issued for the construction of the sacramento valley eastern railroad the stock of which is wiled owned by the bully hill the control of which prior to mr aft Jac klings purchase rested in the general electric company through practically entire stock ownership property acres patented near delamar lamar shasta county it includes the bully ully hill rising star rising sun and the old winthrop baxter groups all in the eastern end of the copper belt owns the fourteen arteen mile railway sacramento valley eastern connecting with the S P R R at pitt station geology ore occurs in nearly vertical asle S W shear zones or veins in meta rhyolite ly olite varying from four to feet in thickness sickness and averaging thirty feet e walls if present are post mineral bouges basalt forms the east wall the ore forms irregular bodies that average forty five feet wid wide e by feet long and are e connected by narrow seams of ore the he ore is a complex mixture of sulp sulphide bide carrying crying with zinc and anti idony and d low gold silver values development several tunnels lowest no 3 crosscutting cross cutting the vein at 1100 and below the outcrop A foot shaft was sunk at this point with levels feet apart and all necessary connections for work and air work since 1918 has been confined to the rising star mine while the company built a ton smelter with one blast furnace two calci ning furnaces five converters etc the plant has been idle since 1910 the company also built a small experimental plant at delamar to t ty try y electric smelting smelling sm elting and recovery of cn this plant remodeled in 1915 produced to pounds of metallic zinc per day using direct electrolysis of zinc sulD sulphate hate solution with regeneration of acid the ore also has been tested by the minerals separation companas Comp anys flotation process with favorable results and a flotation plant was built in 1918 when the group was being operated under bond by walter arnstein and associates asso cates while nothing is yet known concerning the plans of colonel jackling for handling of the property it goes without saying that nothing will be left undone that will aid in making the property a producer of magnitude in the copper world 0 |