Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-08
STOCKHOLDERS GET
POSTED ON MINE
DIRECTORS CALL MEETING AT
RIVERSIDE
Nevada Mining Engineer Considers
Vontrieger Property viii Prove
to Be Greater Than Famous
United Verde
Especial correspondence.)

RIVERSIDE. Nov. IA. II. Cram
and the board of directors of the Cal
ifornia Gold and Copper company,
whose property is the we'll known
Gram mine," at Vontrigger, San Ber-
nardino county with offices at River
side, Cal, were greeted by large at
tendance of stockholders at the office
Of the company, Rooms 1-2, Central
block, and the results obtained were
very satisfactory.
After the meeting was called to order
with fully sixty people in attendance,
report dating from the birth OF the
organization, In 1904 to the present day
of November 8, 1909, was read by the
secretary. The company's books were
opened to the stockholders for exam
nation and investigation.
The reading of the report was fol =
lowed by a general speechmaking by
different parties in attendance, Joseph
Cornwall, a prominent business man OF
Riverside; w. c. McCaugh of Los An
geles, Il. Il. Ward, acting foreman at
the mines of the company, and lastly
by A. X. Wright, expert mining engl-
neer from Searchlight, New, and who
has made an examination of the prop
erty.
Mr.. Wright said: 1.-THE property Of
the California Gold and Copper COM
pany, located at Vontrigger, Cal, is the
largest In the entire southwest. TAX
ing the measurements that 1 have
taken. l claim 1t to be larger prop
erty than the famous United Verde
property in Arizona. The ledge on
which the main shaft has been SUNK
is over 26S feet across the groupings,
and extends the length of the property,
about 5000 feet and there are seven
parallel lodges with this, taken all In
all, the deposit is about 1900 feet In
width. Why, friends, you can't begin
to realize how much ore they have out
there at Vontrigger. Figuring the ledge
being just 200 feet long and 200 feet
wide, there is 10000 square feet of ore,
and their main shaft is down 81 feet.
But figure the amount of ore at 300
feet depth. Three hundred times 10000
is l., 900 900 cubic feet, at Is cubic feet
to the ton, would be 100000 tons on the
one ledge, and the whole mine Will 60
at the lowest per cent copper, which
is 80 pounds of copper to the ton, at
70 cents per pound, is $3.50 per ton, and
II can be treated for SO ton, leaving
$3.50 profit, not counting the gold and
silver in the ore at all.
"And there, is the teaching plant
which Is being installed. Many doubt
the efficiency of this process, but L
tell you, friends, it's not the first time
conner was leached. There have been
people teaching copper for the past
ten years The electrical part of the
process is new, and I am of the same
opinion of Mr.. Cram, that 1t will work.
ct know 1t has been hard Tight to
raise money for the erection of this
plant, but Mr.. Cram will pull it through
as he is a slayer, for he has stayed
with his property now about nineteen
years.
AZ congratulate you on having such
fine property, and such fine manager
to put this project through, and he VIII
do it if you all pull together, as know
you will, and in just a very short time
YOU will hear the whistles screaming
and the crushing sound of the i'm
mense crushers turning the precious
ore into the bright yellow metal that
keeps the world moving"
Mr.. Wright was followed by Mr.
Cram, who made a brief talk on what
was needed yet to start the wheels to
working. Mr.. Ward spoke on what
was done and being done at the mine.
He said: 1.-The mill building is COM
pleted, and automatic mixers and
grinders and tanks Installed, IN addl =
ton there is an immense reservoir
completed and full of water, and
fine water system back Of, 1t to keep 1t
full. About 10000 tons of ore on the
dump ready for the reduction works.
all that is needed is the crusher gem
orators and engine. then the mill will
be pounding out the gold dollars"
The meeting adjourned at 4:S0
o'clock with enthusiasm running high
After the meeting there was sale
made of 1000 shares of stock.
A recent issue of the Searchlight
Bulletin contained the following con-
corning the Cram mine:
The estate of the California Gold and
Copper company is best known as the
"Cram Property" And no wonder,
for Cram located the property seven
teen years ago, and it is due solely to
his individual efforts that the same has
been brought to its present splendid
state of development
The corporation has nine claims, To-
Gated about one and one-half miles in
a northeasterly direction from the lit
tie station of Vontrigger on the line Of
the Searchlight and Barnwell railway,