Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-04
RICH MINES IN
SHASTA COUNTY
EXTENSIVE PLANS BY WEST
ERN GOLD COMPANY
Bonanza King Ore Assays $35o,ooo to
the Ton-More About the Great
Carrigan strlke-Gen-
eraI News

Inc future prospects OF Shasta county
as great mining center are growing
roster every day. Many experts be-
lieve 1t is destined to become the most
gigantic mining district on the globe
ing into a general belief by those less
well posted, but who give some thought
to the subject. The recent advance in
metallurglcal knowledge indicates that
Shasta will supply the zinc product Of
the entire Pacific coast, while as gold,
silver and copper producing section 1t Is
fast coming to the front.
M. E. Dittmar, managing director of
the Great Western Gold company, and
| president of the Delta Consolidated
Gold Mines company, after visit in
the East, says the Redding Free Press
is more than ever impressed with the
! great possibilities of Shastas natural
wealth and believes the county is one
of the richest In ore deposits in exist
ence. Mr.. Dittmar, while away, made
thorough investigation of mining
properties in Colorado and Kansas. The
result of this study enables him to draw
intelligent comparisons between local
and outside mining interests and these
estimates all loom up favorably for the
home deposits.
Extensive Plans
Mr. Dittmar said: "In the matter of
the plans of the Great Western Gold
company, which is now operating d
copper mating furnace at Ingot on
ores from the Afterthought mine, it can
be stated positively that very extensive
Improvements have been determined on
and will be carried out, not alone in
adding to the tonnage of the present
plant for the recovery of copper, gold
and silver values, but equipment will
be added to make a recovery of the
zinc content, which in some of the
Afterthought ores is quite large as u
by-product
THE company is at present burning
a kiln of brick for the present furnace
extension and u large modern blast
furnace will be added which with the
furnace already in operation will give
daily capacity of 300 to $50 tons.
| THE Great Western company is not
offering a share of stock. Its smelter
is in regular and profitable operation
force of about 1875 men are regularly
employed. In the past two years it has
paid out to labor about S250,O00. 1 has
expended an equal amount for equip
ment during the same period. In u
few months the force of employees will
be augmented to 200 men. So under
these circumstances the gentlemen who
are attempting to injure the company
by the position they have taken can
hope to accomplish nothing. The time
will come when the Great Western
company will regularly employ from 400
to 800 men and probably this will be the
case within a year. And when this
position will have been reached, the
stockholders will realize every year as
much money as has been expended in
the purchase, development and equip
ment of their holdings. The company
owns in the neighborhood of 1000 acres
of land in Shasta county outright, and
the greater portion of this is very valu-
able mineral land.'
The Bonanza King Group
The richest and largest high-grade
gold mine ever discovered IN Callfor-
MIA is now being opened up in Trinity
county in the Bonanza King group,
recently bought by John and James
Treadwell and associates of San Fran
cisco. The claims lie six miles north
east of Trinity Center, about 100
miles from the Great Western
Gold company's property in Shasta
county. The Treadwells estimate
that the Trinity county mine has
81, 100000 in gold in sight. From
a seam only seven inches wide extend
ing across the face of a seVen-foot
tunnel has been taken out gold ore
that amounts to $SO,OOO. This ore as
says $350,OOO to the ton and is wire
gold deposited on quartz The speci-
mems on exhibition are the richest ever
on view, the gold assayinS $40 an
ounce.
On each side of the rich seam yield
ing ore going $350,0O0 to the ton the
ore for four feet assays $1,000 a ton
and for thirty feet each side it as
says $50 per ton. This makes the Bo-
nanza King the largest gold PROPOSE
tion in the world,
Besides the Treadwells, j. Dalzell
Brown of the California Safe Deposit
and Trust company and w. j. Bennett
of the Western Pacific company are
interested. The Bonanza King group
was located in 1894 by William Voll-
mers, Ed Schumacher, Rory Macken-
zie and George r. Doty. Later Schu-
maker sold to S. p. Fillman, Macken-
zie bonded his interest to Elias Ellery
and Doty his interest to Vollmers
Filman and Ellery, who have in turn
sold to the Treadwells
The Carrigan Strike
Ben Blanchard a well-known min
ing man who has operated largely in
| Northern Arizona, and who is now de-
veloping five groups in Western Ari-
ZOnd, " IIeSCOlJ lllG OllleT
day and spoke as follows to a Journal
Miner representative:
1--WE don't care to make any big talk
of our Mines" said he but that is
going to be one of the greatest and
richest mining countries that 1 know
of as soon as the railroad is built
along far enough to give the mining
companies and prospectors a chance
to get their supplies in there and their
ore out at reasonable rates. We have
now a large force of men at work.
but as soon as the road is completed
to Bouse's Wells we intend to put
much larger force of miners to work,
and continue our Development on a
much larger scale,
"He saw plenty of ore of the charac-
ter exhibited here by r. j. Carrigan
and others who have been there, and
believes that there is mine there of
great possibilities. A new road was
recently constructed from this place
to the Roseburg mine, four miles
distant. which connects with another
road to one of the Blanchard camps
from which a good road leads to But
ler's gold camp, which is only ten
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