The San Francisco call., 1906-07-16
Valuable Copper Discoveries
in Northern California.
State Mneralogist Aubury Who Has Examined the
Red Metal Lands Believes That the Ore Belt
Runs Through Portion Of Sskiyou to Oregon

! Current developments points out the
probability that mining history is max
ing in the northern counties of Cali
fornia- Mention has been made of
prospecting. for copper all along the
line from Siskiyou to Oregon and over
the border. Shasta County's wealth is
largely added 10 by its copper enter
prises. What the Lake Michigan re-
gion Is to the East. Butte and It's vicin-
| ity to Montana and the copper camps OF
Arizona and Utah are 10 their localities
the copper deposits and workings of
California's northern counties may be
TO this State.
| In the past few weeks State Miner
alogtst Aubury has been through the
north. His reports confirm those that
| have been received and published by
| The Call.
| The amounts of copper already pro-
duced by the Mountain Copper Com
pany at Iron Mountain. in Shasta Coun-
~. are valued high in millions OF dol
| lars. AT Kenneth and at the works Of
the Balaklaia mining property great
expectations are entertained. The new
discoveries of red metal in Siskiyou
County and northward have created ex-
oitement. They are only prospects
yet" says Aubury. but the outlook for
copper development in the north Is
! good"
What is going on in the north tends
| to attract attention to the fact that
there is copper In greater or less guam
| titles, the value OF which is TO be de-
termined by mine workings in more
than fifty California counties. a fact
of wide Significance. AT various times
and since the great value of copper for
electrical uses has made the red metal
a matter OF more or less solicitude, de-
posits In THIS State have been found
that, according to the State Mineralo-
gist, number thousands. Where the
larger copper properties OF the present.
or. to be more exact where the largest
present workings are situated. there
are clearly defined mineral belts.
II am satisfied" said Mineralogist
Aubury, that a belt runs through a
portion of Siskiyou County to Oregon"
AS long ago as 1891 California took
the fourth place as a copper producing
State of the Union. AT that time the
prediction was made that "the State
will soon assume a much larger i'm
portance as a copper field and that will
long remain strong factor in the In
dustry." Since then the course Of
events has been IN the line of verihca-
tion of this pleasing forecast.
The official mining statistics for CAL
ifornia for 1905 have not been complet-
ed. but the official annual summary
published for the year 1904, supplies
an interesting array OF figures to show
the fluctuations in copper production
and in the value of the output in this
State in the period included between
1887 and 1904. inclusive OF both years.
In the period of solid beginnings. COW
cred by the dates given. the total out
put reached the considerable amount OF
213.412.S60 pounds. which was valued.
as estimated, at s25.519.304. That was
sufficient for very promising start
Since 1904 several large plants have
been projected in Shasta County. Ar
rangements have been perfected to
make the commercial aspect OF Califor-
MIA copper vastly more prominent
Reasonable expectation favors the pros
ecution of the copper plans that have
been mentioned from time to time.
Some years ago copper in California
rose to the second place I'm the home
production of metals, gold of course
being the frst. The following is COM
piled from a publication issued under
authority of the California State Mining
Bureau. for the purpose OF showing the
copper output of the north of Califor-
MIA since the discovery IN 1896 of the
copper belt in Shasta County: