The Parker post., 1912-09-14
WILL DEVELOP
BIG DEPOSITS
OF COPPER IN RIVERSIDE MTS.
is PURPOSE OF COMPANY WITH
LARGE CAPITAL-SMELTE TO
BE BUILT AT ONCE.

The recent organization of the Re-
public Smelling Corporation to eX-
pIoit the mineral zones of the River
side mountains is attracting wide in
tereSt among mining men.
Superintendent Engledow was in
Parker Thursday, and stated that
force of men would be at work on
the former Bradley e Morgan proper
ty within the next few days. A car
load of supplies reached CalZona
Thursday morning for the Republic
Smelling Corporation. New buildings
are to be erected at the Corem camp
as we'll as on the B. & M. ground.
Mr. Engledow stated that prepara-
tions are now under way for eNten-
Sive development work on the corpO-
ration's holdings.
I'm last weeks Post was published
news story of the corporation s
plans The following clipping from
last Sundays Los Angeles Times
gives additional information of the
big development era now dawning
for the Riverside district.
'Within five years Southern Cali
fOrnia will have one of the largest
developed copper fields the world has
ever known is the prediction made
by mining men familiar with the min
eral zone in the Riverside mountains,
now situated about six miles from the
little town of CalzOna ON the new
Parker cutoff of the Santa Fe
1" Although the richness of this field
has long been known, lack of trans
portation facilities has held back its
development. and only in scattered
sections have pay claims been workes
and then only for the gold values,
while great bodies OF copper ore
have remained untouched
After an exhaustive examination
skilled mining engineers and metal
lurgiSts who have in the past been
identified with the development of
the great copper sections of Montana
Utah, Nevada and Old Mexico, bill
lions of tons of copper ore running
4 to ; per cent. or from80 to 100
pounds to the ton, have been u4cov-
erred or located. and an area one and
a half by four and half miles. in
clnding sixty five claims, has been ac-
Quired by Il group of Los Angeles
and Pasadena capitalists, who have
recently organized The Republic Smell
Ting Corporation with a capitalization
of 81 500. 900, and will at once begin
the erection of million-doHa smell
ter with capacity of | 200 tons daily
and valuable output in excess of
$4,000.
This new corporation is in no
sense a speculative proposition ask
ing for small subscriptions from the
general public said F. C. Fenner.
president of the Republic Smelling
Corporation, but is financed for it's
initial undertakings by the incorpo-
rators, and the stock that will be for
sale will be overSubscrbed within
ninety days by European capitalists
who are present or previous investors
in properties developed by members
of our corporation
We have gone ahead and secured
these large holdings because we
know the Immense possibilities con-
tanned in the ores if profitably work
ed. In the past twenty years nmer-
Gus claims have been worked in this
locality for their gold values only,
and some good money has been made.
In fact, there are three large working
mines on the property now--the Co
rem Mining and Reduction Company,
zona Copper Company-an of which
have been absorbed by our corpora
tion
The building of our smelter will
open up this great mining district,
for We will take care of the ores of
Independent operators as we'll as our
own. and within a year a great min
ing camp will build up on the prop
erty. But the greatest benefit, from
population standpoint, will come to
Calzona, which is already a thriving
town, and with the development of
the several irrigation systems now
being installed the agricultural lands
of the region will be brought into
productiveness. But there must be
an outlet and a base of supplies This
immense patronage will naturally
come to Los Angeles. and The prod
uots of our smelter will furnish many