Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-28
COPPER GROUPS
IN LARGE DEAL
MONTANA OPERATORS BUY IN
CRACKERJACK DISTRICT
Southern California Promises to Match
Nevada in Production of Miner
ais of Great Value-De=
veiopments Planned

The biggest deal in long time in
Southern California mining property
has just been consummated by the sale
of two groups of highly valuable cop
per claims in the Crackerjack district,
San Bernardino county. The groups
sold are the Beau Brummel and Iron
Cap, ten claims in all, and the sellers
are w. A. Gates, A. H. Schliebitz,
Jack Anderson, l.. A. w. Johnson, H.
A. Barclay, Alexander McKeigan and
r. D. Robinson, all of Los Angeles.
The identity of the buyers cannot as
yet be revealed, but the statement can
be made that they are among the
heaviest Montana mining operators,
men who might well be associated with
Clark and Heinze, so far as Importance
in the realm of mining finance is con-
cerned The consideration is $200,000
of which a very good portion has been
paid, with the balance to be liquidated
shortly
Location of Property
The properties purchased lie south
easterly of the noted holdings of the
Crackerjack Gold Mining company
which are in the heart of the district.
Little more than prospect work has
been performed on them, but the re-
suits of that work, with the magnifi-
cent surface showings, indicate that
velopment become famous producers
of copper. A dixie 375 feet wide and
indicative of enormous copper deposits
traverses the claims and runs for a
great distance beyond. This dixie is
one of several that characterize the
territory, and clearly show that the
Crackerjack district is a remarkable
repository of the red metal The eX-
ploitation of the claims will be con-
Quoted on a very large scale and a
good sized force of men are already at
work.
The deal for these properties has been
pending for some time and followed
an exhaustive inspection of them, as
we'll as the district, generally, and eX-
tended negotiations with their late
owners, who, 1t is said, were not at
all anxious to sell, and were largely
persuaded to consent to a sale by the
fact that by so doing really big ope
rators would be brought into the dis
trict and they would be benefited by
the appreciation of the value of their
other holdings. This lack of enthusi-
asm to sell, by the way is character
istic of Crackerjack owners; they all
have unlimited confidence in the dis
trict and all the sales of properties
therein have been made at generous
figures, with the seller in nearly every
instance retaining an interest in the
district in the form of other property.
Rich in Copper
In the deal just closed the Montana
buyers were represented by l.. F. Flor
mann and w. E. Sanders. Mr.. Flor
mann, who will have charge OF the
work on the claims, believes that as
source OF copper, the Crackerjack dis
trict will prove itself to be at least the
equal of the Greenwater area. He is
also confident that it will establish a
splendid record in gold production.
The Crackerjack district is striding
into fame rapidly. The first legal To-
cation in 1t was made in December,
1905. by "Cyclone" Wilson, the discov-
erer of the Jumbo mine, one of Gold
fields great producers, and now 1t is
on the verge of a veritable BOOM
Every mining expert who inspects it is
impressed with the richness of the
region, and 1t looks as though South
ern California would soon "size up"
with Southern Nevada in the possess
sion of a really great mineral section.
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