The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15
..!I.SSI;i......THIS TO Be
/" 4 CALIFORNIA
!. ]. CRIPPLE CREEK2
. Great Base Ore Finds
on Coffee Creek.
.=lTS: WONDERFUL TELLURlDES
ORES NEW TO CALIFORNIA MIN
- ING MEN.
Recent Finds in Northern Trinity
= =: County Run From Hundreds
& .:.:.. II. to Thousands of Dol
r.: Z ~. lars Per Ton.
fits. WONDERFUL TELLURlDES
RES NEW TO CALIFORNIA MIN.
ING MEN.

The promise of a California Cripple
Creek seemed to come into view in this
city yesterday, when the Selby Smelling
Works made official returns on a lot of
newly discovered ores from Northern
California and when some mining men
arrived and gave evidence regarding some
remarkable recent developments.
Frdm the Coffee Creek region and from
a number of recent ore discoveries in it.
distributed over range of thirty miles,
are coming really wondrous reports of
gold discoveries.
Away up in Coffee Creek, near the head
waters of the Trinity River, about eighty
miles from a railroad, in a wild virgin
region where an ak has rarely been heard
TO this day, some patient prospectors,
after long years Of grubstake rustliug, are
:. ulccverinS and shipping out on pack
Jnules and in small quantities gold ores
that assay from several hundred to $4,000
3, q ton, and the evidence Of the values is
lat hand.
" ::These new discoveries of some of the
. highest ores that California or any other
: gold region can show are distributed over
- >: range of nearly thirty miles in length,
IN d country that is being prospected for
fstle urSt time, and they are concentrated
. IN q region that seems 10 be typical OF
. thousands of square miles of virtually
u1lProspected territory in that region.
. In NO case has development work gone
g.: <hut q. Comparatively few feet below the
.GsurfaCe, and what is below no man can
say but the great Cripple Creek district,
THAT furnishes now the bulk of Colorado s
T.. gold. and which has enabled that State
10 eclipse California in its gold output for
The first time could not make so promis-
:, .ing a:ShOWihg SO early in its development
-, -. FTcTe are three features TO the new
q: Coffee: Creek discoveries that are engag-
.iilg<.FIO.ic attention. One IS the fast that
a.-Iit Oh telluride ores are included in them;
~a@nAtiler is that on Union Creek there has
*. eeli.' discovered a kind of telluride ore
p: neNeF before found in California, and that
>,c..is ~qagyagite, a sulphur tellurium of lead
ana gold. and third striking feature is
: :th6I Remarkably high assay values which
'r:lia|t9 been discovered in widely separated
=: ftheYg arrived at the Russ House yester-
":d2sE some Copper Creek mining men who
d: :CaEryr:' evidence of gold values recently
.. are. George l. Carr, Amos Hill and ]. c.
! ::Sta@Gle. Mr.. Steele has been rustling
.Qfner in that region for two years or
Il I'm ore and is now superintendent for the
-:stfQlden Jubilee Mining Company. COM
,:+:pQSed Of Napa people, who recently &C
,.scillrI:pd the Golden Jubilee mine, or pros
p&ct.: on. Boulder Creek, a tributary of
=[C Qt:ee Greek, and who are planning to
=. Qe5:s.:p and work the property.
- >. The Golden Jubilee has not furnished
.tle ':rICEest ores that have recently been
.UHd on Coffee Creek, but Mr.. Steele
.:bGGpeued TO have the most reliable evil
,(ftgl+Ee.. of values. This evidence consisted
=-@En official returns, dated January IA, on
. :gt Eeyal experimental lots Of ores recently
=. shipped to Selbys for treatment. In the
=. golden Jubilee property there is a strong
!: ledge Of sylVanite ore, quite rare in Cali
a.fornia, and also a rich vein of soft ma
*teilal called "Ochre" for short. by Mr..
j.. Steele. Some prospect holes have been
.>&Vik IN the sylvanite vein and a short
=, tQgrEel taps the vein at a short distance
!; below the surface. Samples of ore taken
p }l%ider such surface conditions were
.AShjpp6d TO Selby's for treatment. They
w 6y.e' gathered from various places on the
~ Gre lot of AGO pounds may be rated as
.=SHu0 ore Selbys report the assay value
: per. ton TO be: Silver, SL12 ounces; gold,
%-:50S6 ounces. The total net value, less
...ClIarSes, is given as $50 20 per ton. The
:'.Iiet returns for the 400 pounds were 1920 Ga.
THIS lis. nearly so cents a pound for stone
dug. frOm the side Of a canyon. Another
o.: l5triS. reported by Selbys to assay S241 80,
"a. .asIQtheT S209 90, another $lI9 43 and others
: jn*S5miar amounts.
-. '7bis is decidedly rich ore. Such ore is
mos mined in many spots on earth. The
i..stQwrng. however. is, of course, for lots
! cf:;sQrted ore. There is not available any
-. Gata on the average value of the vein,
;.;Wh5tf is the only showing in which the
= ; Gtue- of q mine may be estimated, and.
'':as has been explained, the development
= Qt the mine is surface one 50 far. The
>zEOiat is that such rich orc is found at the
.:.;surfaue.
II There are other rich strikes on Coffee
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