Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-02
GREAT GOLD FIND
NEAR RIVERSIDE
MILLIONS OF TONS OF RICH
ORE IN SIGHT
Copper District That Astonishes the
World Found in Alaska-Mines
Being Opened in All Parts.
Train of Treasure

fabulous find of rich ore in range of
mountains long neglected. According
to Los Angeles and other investors the
properties are within twenty-five miles
of Riverside. So great is the discov-
cry in gold lodges that some persons
are confident that the mining world
of ore, carrying values not only in
gold, but in other precious metals, in
Guiding platinum, of thousands of dol
lars per ton, are said to be in sight
The discovery is located in the Santa
Ana mountains of Orange county, and
for some time syndicate of Los An
geles men have been quietly acquiring
scores of mining claims until they have
secured control practically of an entire
mountain, the greater portion of
which is said to be mass of ore.
If the reports are half true, the new
district will overshadow in quantity
and quality of ores any mining district
in the United States or Mexico.
For years the Santa Ana mountains
of Orange county have been prospected
posits, but the prospector, after de-
livering his samples to the assay office
would be disappointed to find that the
ore was very low grade, containing too
small veins in gold to warrant further
development and as a result he would
abandon his claims and seek other
| fields.
| There have been made of these ores
scores of tests other than the usual
fire tests, which have yielded from $500
four years metallurgists and chemists
have been experimenting with the ore,
with the object of finding a method by
which the ores can be treated without
the fire test.
1t is claimed that the problem has
| been solved, and if this is a fact it will
mean that within this region will be
located the largest gold-producing camp
in the world. The claim is made that
the deposits of ores in the Santa Ana
mountains are the largest ever discov-
cred, and the successful treatment of
the ores will result in an output that is
beyond calculation.
1t is known that promoters of tin
company which has been operating in
one district of the Santa Ana noun
tains and whose stock was placed in
the market at a low price recently have
been buying back all the stock they
could purchase, owing to the discovery
of the new process of treating ores, by
means of which they not only far eX-
ceed the former tin values, but gain
large percentage of platinum.
Train of Treasure
Arrangements have been completed
whereby the first trainload of ore is to
be shipped from the Goldfeld district.
The exact time has not been definitely
set, but it is thought it will be made
some time next week.
This train will consist of twenty cars,
|
| famous Reilly lease on the Florence.
The cars have a capacity Of thirty tons
each, and this will make the total ton
mage of ore 600 tons. This ore easily
averages 5000 per ton, which places the
grand total value at $120,OOO.
During the past month the lease from
which this ore is to be shipped has
established a record which any older
camp could justly be proud of. Since
August 279O tons of ore have been
taken from the property. The ore viii
easily average 5000 a ton.
Great Copper Find
Henry Brattnober, the famous min
ing expert, has discovered in uneX-
plored Alaska what he says is without
doubt the richest copper district in the
world. To reach it he built special
steamer and ascended the treacherous
Tanana river 500 miles above Fair
banks. There, where Nabesna, White
and Copper rivers head together, at
Scoli Pass, he found region hundred
miles in width, filled with great lodges
of metallic copper. On White river he
found slabs of pure copper four feet
wide, two feet long and two inches
thick
The veins containing shot and mug
get copper are 300 to 500 feet wide,
carrying 10 to 80 per cent copper. The
formation is amigaloid. or green stone,
like the Lake Superior copper mines.
Vast quantities of copper were found
at the foothills where the green stone
had decomposed and the copper washed
down into the ravines. The green stone
formations carrying copper in this form
extends from Copper river to Mt. Atty
att, near Mt. st. Elias, where the copper
lodges are lost beneath glacial ice.
A years development work will de-
velop the mines to produce daily from
1000 to 5000 tones of ore. Brattnober
loaded forty tons of provisions, with