Show V V O Edt Edited Ie d rr and Mining Sprague nv 1 1 if l j JV t V SAYS PUMAS PLUMAS HAS HASI DuEl LOPPER BELT I Musgrove Directs Attention to I Mining Opportunities Overlooked S The recent gold discoveries made In ir I V that district have so engrossed the at attention attention at- at of the tho mining fraternity that V VV V the Immense copper coppel deposits of or Plumbs I 5 have been overlooked say says sas I Mark larJ W. W Musgrove In the lIe Grcen Cal Star Beginning near the head of Cooks Cook's V V canyon Just over the Lassen county countyline V V 5 line Une and extending southeasterly for 01 fora S a D. distance of twenty miles with 0 a a. width of o over r five e miles mites tho Plumas SS count county copper belt presents a field Held or of V gre great u extent and unusual richness All of ot the tho ores are rich In Id go-Id and I S V silver In addition to the tho copper values In a number of cases tho gold and silver silver sil sll- sil- sil ver er will pa pay all nil costs of oC operation and leave leae the copper a a. clear profit pronto High V V authorities predict for or this district a future that will compare favorably In V copper capper production wIth with the best of oC V Si S them At the north end of or the belt Is la the tho S property of ot tho the Mountain Meadows V Copper company compan th the ores of ot which arc amygdaloidal and carr carry pure copper copperS metal alloyed with gold at tho the rate o of S 5 a ton according to an analysis V made by Prof Phelan of the Boston Doston Tech and In addition they carr carry sil silver silver sliver sli- sli ver In quantities varying from ten to hundreds of ounces to the tonE ton E Shipped d Ores Ore to j V. V A few miles south o of the Mountain j. j WB Mcado-WB mine Is the CopperS Coppert Copper Coppo t S I mine from which ores oros were taken years year ears ago ago and hauled b by was wagon to Sacra Sacra- i menta and from by ralto rail ral Ix- Ix i. i to San Sao Francisco and from thero by bywater 7 r I water to Swansea Wales at a profit S' S certainly eloquent testimony of ot their thel S alucs i l in Jn tho same vicinity are several eral Ii promising properties more or le Ie less do do- do 4 Near Taylorsville the Sierra Range flange S v Copper Cooper company compan for the tho last three I years cars has boon been developing Its three f V copper mines known as the Iron Dyko Dyke S. S Mountain Lion and Hinchman Tho The I Jf ore oro body o of tho the Iron Iran Dyke Is nearly nearl a R. amile amile mile Jon long and for tor or a part of or that distance dis dl- dl J i tance the massive Is more than 50 60 feet teet In thickness The management man man- V V expects to develop several I millions of ot tons of oro ore In addition to V what Is already In s sight ht y J The of vf the Mountain Lion has bas been cut by bO a tunnel at a depth o of four tour hundred feet teet and exposing a largo large tonna o o of ot oro o of a shipping gra grade e. e Ih l l 4 in i A ro r 54 AUT The l hm J-h J has S a o largo large quantity of ot smelting ore on the dump t In the same earne vicinity Is the Cosmopolitan Cosmo Cosmo- politan mine In which Is 19 exposed a large hod body of fine smelting oro OTO The Genesee or Gruss mine has prod produced several hu hundred thousand dollars In gold and Its shallow shaft is now In a a. high grade ado copper gold gold- silver gUver ore S Adjoining the Mountain Lion mine V on tho the south Is the Five Bears Dears mine V in which a 0 14 fOOt vein eln of high grade I V smelting ore oro has been cut at nt a depth I of ot about foot feet r Near rear the tho Five Bears Dears are the Calnan and a a. number of ot other partially dehl developed doS de do- hl S eloped properties erUes all showing high grade rade stuff shier V r Salt Snit Interested nt t t About five miles south of ot the Gruss S S mine IR Is a very cry promising property S- S V owned by hy Walker brothers brother nn and asso- asso V JUts cites of or Salt SnIt I which undoubtedly F FV V win wIll develop Into a n heavy henvy producer d. d Ono peculiar feature in lii regard to tho development of ot this district b Is if tho the fact tact that San Francisco capitalists do not OCIO to have havo awakened to tho tact fact that there thero Is anything doing here They did the same thing In regard to tho Shasta district In that case they slept peacefully while eastern parties gathered In near Redding 1 worth orth scores cores of cit millions In exchange for sums of money that would make makeS S the old fur traders who got ot a sealskin sealskin seal seal- skin for or a brass bead turn green with I en envy |