Show WRIGLEY MINES MAY PROVE OUT O T Catalina Catalini Island Is Now Island Yielding Up Minerals Ore A AVALON YALO Santa Catalina Island March 2 Dy By Dy The he ABo Associated A Preas-A A time will come s say ay y vet vet- veteran veteran vet veteran eran mining men when nen the th toy mine developed by William Wrigley Jr will III surprise the lh quip makers who have hl referred to It as Just ju t another oC or Wrigley's U playthings s Like U the e small boy who ho over over- hauls hauls overhauls a a clock doc so o the tir owner own r or of orthis this Isle scone oin 30 miles ort off the coast cout ot or of Southern California Is digging the tho th Int Internals out of ot his Ills d do- do do domain main to learn what It Is la made mad of ot ICI mining efforts have gone gon only to the extent of or scratch scratch 1 Ing K the surface of or three In the Mt lit Black Jack the tir Quarry and the P D II s1 Renton veins Some 20 of or these the e veins Nava hav been die dis- disclosed dis disclosed closed In late t r development period ot of two years eara gleams In a small chunk ot of rock ro he be w was ss about to hurl at a troublesome wild lid goat caught Wrigley's 1 eye cy one on day while he ha e was hiking on lit Mt It Black BlackJack BlackJack BlackJack Jack It led to the th discovery or of orthe the mine min which b bears ars the th name nam name or of orthe the mountain A foot root shaft and laterals today show pay streaks str ako as wide as seven and II a a halt half feet teet running lO 40 10 and narrower veins carrying up to un ft II ton evi- evi evidenced evi evidenced dented by smelter smeller returns The Quarry second prospect worked and originally the th source or of paving materials for mainland roads yielded a four tour and a halt half root foot vein of or sulphide milling ore carrying silver sliver Mother Iother Nature concealed the most promising ot of the tha diggings some 1800 feet reet up the th perpendicular perpendicular ular cliffs overlooking Pebble Beach where mountain goats bare bare- barely barely barely ly find II a footing On three thre levels feet reet In veins were found round ty eight to thirty-six thirty feet reet across These are ar In the Renton Denton which shows promise promis of or being belne the rich rich- richest richest est cst producer yet yot discovered for tor forthe forth the veins vins ir widening as 5 Work progresses A ton flotation mill util- util utilizing utilizing util izing salt water water- In the concentration concentration tion process has bas been blen Installed nt at Whites White's Landing at nt the foot f ot or of o a recently completed mile four road from the Black lack Jack mine The Th Island one of ot a II chain that until a hundred bundred years agO o har harbor cd or- or ed cd an Indian at one onetime onetime onetime time entertained II a a rush In a II small way Ili like Illee the one to California In Ml 4 Mining on a II broad scale scalo was prosecuted but no empt attempt was made to pursue ore bodies to any a d depth The next ma ma- maJor major major jor attempt was WIlS undertaken by an l syndicate but this attempt rail failed d Wrigley purchased the tb Island several years ago aco n |