Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-11
MINING ACTIVITY
IN CALIFORNIA
STRIKE IN NEVADA
COUNTY
Handsome Specimens of Gold Taken
from Morning Star on the "Mother
Mitchell" Ranch - Trinity
County Developments

The miners have struck it again in
the Lappin mine, this time underneath
the shaft. The strike of a two-foot
ledge of pretty fair ore was made last
Thursday in the crosscut. 1t will be
remembered that the Lappin has two
we'll defined ledges.
The Nevada City Miner Transcript
says: 1.-The Mountaineer mine looks
better today than it has at any other
time in it's history, and it's future as
a great producer is now positively as
sured."
Superintendent ]. c. Campbell recent
very rich body of ore, and it is getting
better With every days work done.
The shoot is making direct toward the
Oustomah mine, and I regard the dis
covery important for that property as
we'll as for the Mountaineer."
The find referred to is in the north
drain tunnel of the Mountaineer, 1000
feet from the mouth of the tunnel.
Forty years ago the late Prof. Ed.
Muller mined 1t down to water level
and found it to carry high values. The
drain tunnel strikes it so as to give
backs from 600 to 700. The vein
varies in thickness from one to three
feet.
Keswick SmeIter to Resume
The Keswick smelter is to be re-
habilitate in part right away. Two
of the five furnaces will be placed in
commission, says the Redding Seach-
light. One will be operated constantly
the second being kept in reserve. Low
grade ore from the Hornet mine will be
treated as well as some from the Iron
Mountain, and the resultant matte will
be shipped to the Martinez reduction
toi Tnnnar
company.
This information was given out in
this city Friday by Lewis T. Wright
general manager, who had just re-
turned from Keswick. The Mountain
Copper company has found It's plant at
Martinez to be too small to handle the
amount of ore that it is desired to
treat. Dividends have not been flowing
to the English stockholders as they
were when operations were conhned TO
the Keswick smelter.
A strike has Just been made in a new
field by Herbert and William James,
who have a bond on the Morning Star
quartz mine on what is usually known
as the "Mother MITCHELL ranch, few
miles west of Grass Valley, Cal. They
have of late taken out some of the
handsomest specimens seen in long
time, the rock being thickly peppered
with gold and VIII run INTO tne tnou-
sands per ton by assay test
A few months ago the James broth
ers secured a bond on the property and
started work at q point which many
had tramped over since the early days
of placer mining without heed. The
ledge runs between twelve and eighteen
inches in width. 1t Is of the ribbon
variety and lies inside a strong forma-
tion, giving every evidence that 1t will
develop into a big proposition with
depth All along the ledge in the
drift free gold has been found.
Rich Ore In Trinity Mine
The Redding Searchlight says Robert
L. Grigsby and John V. Motherwill,
leasers in the Brown Bear near Dead
wood. have made the richest strike
known in recent years in the famous
old gold producer. They have pay
streak eight inches in width that
Yields ore going from $500 to $500 ton.
And as If that we're not enough. along
side this rich seam is two-foot streak
of quartz that assays between $50 and
$40 a ton.
The Brown Bear mill shut down ten
days ago, but 1t did not close for the
want of ore. 1t was the shortage OF
wood that compelled the suspension of
operations.