Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-24
sHAsTA's GREAT
COPPER DEPOSIT
MORE RICH DISCOVERIES IN
FAMOUS LODE
Groupings Fifty Feet in Width Traced
for Nearly a MiIe-Mines
and Smelter at
Ingot

The most significant mineral dis
covery in California in the past few
weeks was made in Shasta county.
where what appears to be a great and
rich copper belt was located. The dis
trict is about four miles west of Shasta,
near Clear creek. The groupings are
fifty feet wide in places and can be
traced three-quarterS of a mile. A
shaft has been sunk twenty feet, and
from this a sulphide ore averaging SO
per cent copper has been unearthed in
small quantities and black oxide of
copper is found throughout the section.
The Redding Courier-Free Press says
that the district bids fair to outshine
any other copper bearing area in Shasta
county. There is hardly any doubt"
says the Free Press. but that when the
ore body is developed immensely high
grade ore will be encountered at depth,
as the ore that has been found to date
is all more or less leached. Managers
of smelters at various points have
looked the country over and have re-
ported favorably concerning it.
Each year increases the Importance
of Shasta county as a copper producing
section. The Mammoth company Is the
largest individual producer. In a short
time five furnaces will be at work in
connection with the Mammoth smelter.
In about that time the railroad will be
delivering copper ores and silicious
ores, and 1900 tons a day can be treated.
| There are $50 men at work on the
| mines of the Mammoth company, and
| 750 are working at the smelter Imme-
diately north of the Mammoth property
! is the Summit group of mines that are
under bond to the Stauffer Chemical
company for SIS, 1000. People associated
with the Guggenheims have a bond on
the Golinsky group. The Mammoth
people have been working the Friday
and Lowden mines, but have discon-
tinued operations on these properties.
The Trinity Copper company is erecting
buildings. The Balaklala mine and
smelter will be operating in October.
The Great Western Gold company is
operating mines and smelter at Ingot,
and the Shasta Copper company has
The mining development in Shasta
county this year will probably exceed
that of any preceding twelvemonth."
Activity at Kennett
| KENNETT (Shasta county,, June %.
I-Kennett is big paying station for the
Southern Pacific. The receipts from
freight last month were close to 5000
and the sale of passenger tickets
|
| tickets a month are sold to Redding
alone. Nine men are required to handle
the business of the office, and they COM
plain that they do not have moment
| to spare.
One hundred cars of coke and ore
billed to the Kennett smelter are in the
Red Bluff yards or sidetracked be-
tween Red Bluff and Kennett, waiting
for the Southern Pacific to deliver
them at the smelter. Two carloads of
ore are received every day from Red
ding and two every day from Central
Spur. The ore is hauled to Redding
from the company's Yankee John mine
/ near Centerville, and to Central Spur
from the Quartz Hill mine in Old Dig
gings district. Six or eight carloads
Of ore are received every day from the
gold fields of Nevada.
Four carloads of matte have beer
shipped every day for two months from
the smelter, where only two furnaces
have been running for the last sixty
days. The matte goes to the company
refinery in Utah.
+ One carload of lime and one of lime
rock are shipped every day of the week
from Kennett, and as soon as the new
quarry is opened the amount will be
doubled.
Three carloads of merchandise arrive
at the Kennett depot every day, one
each from Redding, Sacramento an6
San Francisco. Oftentimes as many as
seven cars are spotted at the depot tC
be unloaded.