The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-28
COPPER MINES
WITH 4 HISTORY
Coast BonanzaS of Early Days
Are Taken Over by Salt
Lake Men.
SHIPPED ORES TO SWANSEA
OUT AND SHIP.
SHIPPED ORES TO SWANSEA


1t has remained for Salt Lake to find
and acquire control of three groups Of
copper claims in California that promise
TO prove richer than anything that has
been talked about in this country for a
long time. The properties are not new
ones, either. Some Of them were worked
fOrty-flVe years ago, and practically
nothing has been heard of them since
copper became so popular a few years
ago. The properties are some that j. H.
Turner has been quietly at work corral
ing for the past three or four month";
and interested with hin are Sparey &
Mehse, heavy owners in the Mason Valley
Copper company There is no s~henanigan
about the properties which these parties
have undertaken to purchase. They were
producing and shipping ore to SwanSea
Wales. as far back as 1863. and records of
returns from there show that large guam
titles OF ore gong 30 per cent to 40 per
cent copper was shipped.
Three veins are covered in the three
properties acquired for a distance of
three miles and there is not an open cut.
a tunnel. shaft, drift, raise or cross-cut
in any of the properties that does not
show anywhere from four to thirty feet
Of high-gTade ore. There are dumps that
contain thousands of tons of rock that
will run from 5 to 10 per cent copper, and,
as Mr.. Turner has figures to show that
the ore can me moved right from the
mines to Selby's smelter for less than
Sc a ton, he figures that he can market
the dump material at a net profit of IS to
equipment he can produce a great ton
mage of 10 per cent TO 40 per cent ore at
trifling cost.
The properties have been exported and
thoroughly sampled, SO far as the work
Ing would permit, and, in cases where
the latter was not possible. he has the
mine working maps and all data necessary
10 show what the ground contains.
Located on Sea Coast.
Two hundred and eighty miles north of
c.. T.--as.-A - - H.
town of Crescent, in Del Norte county.
Eighteen miles from the town are the
mines. located in a country filled with
big timber, an abundance of water and
every other condition to max mining
ideal.
h Oldest property of the three is the
Alta-CalifOrnia Adjoining on the south
is the Low Divide group, and on the
north the Union group. TIL shaft work
ings on the Alta-California have opened
the mine to a depth Of 45J feet, taking
in all three OF the veins. Maps and re-
ports made in 1867 show what every level
contains in the way of ore reserves and
the amount of STOPPING and development
done. This shaft viii have to be pumped
out to get a notification of the reports.
hut, judging from the development of
the Low Divide on the south and the
Union on the north, Mr.. Turner enter
tains no doubt that conditions will be
found precisely as represented.
II is impossible to give a fair idea of
what reports made to Mr.. Turner on these
properties show. At one place in the Low
Divide property there is a tunnel that
opens a twelve-fOOt ledge fifty feet be-
low the surface. and from which SO per
cent ore was shipped in 1853. Another
tunnel in the same group in $50 feet
shows eight to twelve feet Of ore from
which shipments of 80 per cent rock were
made. Shaft and other workings on this
property make almost as marvellous a
showing.
This a Quarrying Proposition.
on the Union group to the north of the
Alta-CalifOrnia most of the development
has been by open cut. Here the veins
vary in width from ten to thirty feet,
and the sampling done shows values,
both in the carbonate and sulphide ores,
that are simply startling Fifteen feet
of 20 per cent ore here. sixteen feet OF
40 per cent ore there. eight feet somewhere
else. all running away up in the red met
al, and all carrying more or less gold
and silver and heavy percentages of iron,
go to make what appears to be one of
the biggest things out Of doors. Mr..
Turner has all the reports of ore sales.
all the results of sampling by his own ex-
perts and samples of the ore from which
every test was made. 1t is all interesting
and all beWildering.
1t seems impossible that such a prop
osition could have gone all through the
years of copper hunting without attract
ing attention, but it has, and Salt LAX
ers lave been the lucky mOrtalS to land
It.