Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1912-05-10
CHANCE TO DISPLAY
JOSEPHINE CO. COPPER

erous quantity Of copper ore from
Josephine county hills will be sent
to the mining congress to convene at
Yreka, CAL six weeks hence. June
IS. Gums copper mine at Takilma
Is shipping through Grants Pass to
the Kennel smelter. and II Is pos
slble that arrangements wiI be made
with the management of this mine 10
allow 500 pounds Of the handsome
sulphlde ore now coming into this
city to 80 to the meet in California.
There are, all told many pounds
OF rich copper ore owned in the city
by residents, all Of 1t from Josephine
and Curry counties. This ore would
add much value to an exhibition from
this county, and all persons who own
such mineral and are willing to do
nate 1t temporarily for exhibition, are
Invited to notify II. l.. Herzinger, who
is the president of the congress
It Is hoped that in addition to the
copper ores, that a generous quaint
ity OF gold-bearing quartz win be
sent to Yreka Josephine can win
laurels for mine run Of ore, mill
rock. Siskiyou county, California,
leads in specimen ore, picture rock, >"
but It was Josephine county which
won first honors at the Northwest
Mining convention at Spokane, where
c. l.. Mangum was in charge Of s.
600 pounds Of milling ore from this
region. The mining investor will al
ways give close attention to displays
of mill rock, as It is tons he Is look
Ing for, not cabinet specimens. And
Josephine has an opportunity, say To-
cal mining men, to make another
good hit at the California meeting,
where will be congregated class of
investors and operators which did
not visit the Oregon meetings of the
congress.
A display Of copper ore from this
region is especially apropos at this
time, stated a mining man today, as
a result Of the present remunerative
prices for the red metal. The last
few years of depression of the copper
market is declared by technical men
who keep close.r informed on the
subject, TO be nc an end, with the
world calling for the metal and will
Ing to pay up to 16 cents for It with
out grumbling.
One of the factors entering into
the rise Of copper is the newborn re-
public of China, where widespread in
dustry is soon expected to be under
way
Regarding Josephine county's cop
per fields, and It's opportunity to get
in effective advertising, a Colorado
mining man who is here loo ding over
this region spoke as follow
Rise in the price Of copper is in .
terestlng the western mining world
in an acute way and there Is much
activity In re-openlng mines which
closed several years ago as a result
of the tumble In prices for the red
metal It is generally considered by
copper authorities that prices of the
metal viii range around / s cents for
several years to come, aud that only
a few weeks cessation of production
would exhaust the worlds stock
How much the higher prices af-
feet any community can be realized
In Josephine county, where, with only
one mlne re-oponng work has been
quickly provided for 25 men al the
IS teamsters and AS teams
of two horses and four horses each
II one property can do tnis SO quick
ly what great advantage would re-
suit to the commercial life of the
county at large II other mines were
opened
There exists many lodges of cop
per to the westward of Grants Pass,
some OF these mineral bodies being
large, and It is to advertise
this copper zone that efforts should
be made to have a comprehensive eN-
hibit of copper ore, along with Quri-
ferrous ore, at the Yreka congress.
Investors who will not entertain a
proposition 20 purchase prospects
carrying gold values can be quickly
Interested In copper prospects of
worth. Whom the metal Is bringing
prices such ass now obtain, the temp
ation is great to get into the game
II Josephine county wul In the next
nix weeks, get together a generous eX-
lioit OF copper ores from her territory
md make o display at Yreka. then
Josephine county viii advertise her
'opper resources to number OF men