Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-06
MINE OWNERS
I GREATLY ELATEO
SAMPLE ORES SHOW A HIGH
PERCENTAGE
Local Company Which Owns Copper
Producer of Much Promise AS
sured Of Success Of Big
Paying Project

A check for $902.S4 received recently
by a local copper mining company from
the United states Smelling and Rein
ing COMPANY at Salt Lake City repre-
sents the net profit on trial shipment
of copper ore taken from the dump or
the STANDARD mine near Gina, sta
tion on the Salt Lake road in the
eastern part of San Bernardino county.
This initial carload has marked the
beginning of a productive period in
connection with what promises to be
one of the richest mines of Southern
California. In detail the car as sam
pied by the Taylor and ore sampling
works, averaged per ton as follows:
Copper. 1875; silver. three ounces;
gold. $12O. and 2S per cent of iron,
making the gross average per ton
$42.925.
The property is owned by the
Standard Mines company, of which the
General Securities company, having of
fees in the Pacific Electric building, is
fiscal agent.
Begins Steady Shipment
The mine was purchased last July
and under the management of ener-
getic and capable engineers has been
very actively developed. A new work
ing shaft equipped with a 25-horse-
power gasoline hoist, has been sunk to
a depth of 200 feet, while levels have
been run from the first and second sta
tions. exposing high grade copper ores.
These are now being extracted as the
development proceeds, partly from the
new workings and partly from old
levels run in the new vein from an m
clined prospecting shaft 190 feet in
depth.
Three carloads of ore are now en-
route to Salt Lake City and others are
being made ready for shipment at
Gina. Shipments will be maintained
at the rate of two cars a week until
the company Is able to install it's own
sme1ter at the mine.
1t is stated that the ore from the 100
foot level is richer than that recently
sold in Salt Lake, and assays from the
116 bucket samples have averaged 1885
per cent copper to the ton in addition
to low gold and silver values.
Will Install SmeIter
In order to avoid the expense in
volved in shipping a distance of ten
miles to Gina, a smelter of adequate
capacity will be installed during the
coming year. The property lies in the
rich copper belt of eastern San Ber-
nardino county, in which is located the
New York Mountain and the Van Trig
ger mine near Goffs, on the Santa Fe
line.
The showing which has been made
during the eight months since the COM
pany started development is consider
able. 1t comprises about 1000 feet of
underground work beside the installa-
ton of hoisting machinery, quarters,
shops and Improvements of roads.
An article written by Shedd Boards
in, M Of
mine:
"At the surface the ere was found to
be OF copper, containing also gold and
silver. The copper lode is enormous,
being $50 feet wide at the top and ex-
for nearly a mile.
Richest Mine at Surface
"Shafts have been sunk to a depth
of 200 feet, and drifts made from this
shaft in various and large quantities
of payable ore have been blocked out.
civilian S. Corbett one of the most
prominent mining men of the west,
who has visited every important camp
in Alaska, the United States, Central
superintendent of the Standard told
me that the Standard is richer at the
surface than any copper property that
he ever investigated.
The General Securities company,
which is largely interested in this
mine, will shortly place a block of
$4,000 shares of Standard stock on the
market which will be sold at par.