The Holt County sentinel., 1916-01-21
The Bannack and Walker Copper

The Bannack and Walker Copper
John +. Cowan and associates have
been active during the year In de
veloping the famous Bannack mine In
Beaver Head county, Mont, and the
walkerCopper mine In Plumas county,
Cal, both Of which properties give
every promise OF becoming big DO.
narZas.
The Bannack was the first placer
mine developed In Montana and hp 9
had a varied experience, having been
sold number OF times before coming
into the possession of Mr.. Cowan. H.
BInnard, Harry Is. Cole and Messrs
| Brow ming. Watts and Becker Of Og.
den. In April Of this year The ltah
men paid $4,000 for the property. Ac
! cofding to Mr.. Coaan. Butte capital.
lists, Who had tried repeatedly to get
I hold ~ the minr, have made an offer
| Of +rbh,unb, to the new owners, which
waN refused It's claimed tha, about
| ~ ,ODn OOn has been taken out Of the
creek iusi below the Bannack prop.
/ efty
TIE liannack LA, been developed 10y
I the new owners until now there il
about $1,000 OoO worth VI ore IN sight
Treasury stock was sold 10 the preSi.
dent uf the General Motors company
| for sl2j,OpO. 1t u estimated that ap.
prOximately 10000 tons OF gold ore
have been blocked out and that 1t will
average around = a ton,
Mr COwan declares 1t Is the inten.
ton OF the company 10 build a mill Of
Pa tons capacity on lie property, con.
struction work To begin probably In
| March. 4 body OF ore III feet Wide
has been opened up assuring ore
enough TO keep the mill working for
an indefinite time.
Was Once Sailed.
II Is said that everybody Who ever
owned the property made money out
( OF II. Even the victim Of a sailing
game succeeded by streak Of luck In
turning ia. table On the "Sater." An
lrishman, vino had stripped a rich ore
shoot, decided 10 unload the property,
and proceeded 10 DO a good Job uf
sailing pn the showing made, Car,
ll,ud of Los Angeles, was induced ro
1 buy thr mine At the point where
/ tie property lad been sailed, Hand
drove IN luSt ten lee, and opened up
a body % ole from which hc TOOK
. about t3ur,uun
/ Iuc CuNan crowd secured control Of
| the Walker copper mine from BON
| Walker about / months ago TuiN
] property II lbllt - mile, northwest Vt
/ the town Of pur,ola Ia T. umas county
Cal, un the line Of the Western Pacific,
the Boca \ legation aud the Sierra
Valley railroads There is a railroad
owned aud operated by the Feather
VALLEY Lumber company, which tx.
tends four miles toward the mine.
] Tie mining company nov Is build
Ing a Rotation process mill OF lOOtun
capacity, which NJ the present writing
j. almost completed, The ore vii be
transported from the mine TO tie mill,
a distance Of 1000 feet by an aerial
tram, construction Of whl,h Is vel
under way, The mine is thoroughly
equipped with compressor and other
modern mining machinery.
Recent reports indicate that there
u an Immense amount OF copper in
sight, or 30 foot vein exposed l.
feet will run about q per cent copper
and the remainder about = per cent.
In the upper workings the company Is
drifting on a body OF ore that Is run.
ming from u TO Is per cent. This see
ondary ore body Is about Is feet Wide.
During the last two years, Mr.. Cow
an has brought out four winning
mines; Rocher de Boule In British
Columbia, Il )chester Mines In Roches,
ter, Nevada, Bsnnack In Montana and
Walker In California, With the eX,
ceptIon OF the iisnnack, he took hold
OF them as poor prospects and develop
eI them until They now look Ike
dividend producers desert Evening
News, salt Lake City, Utah, Decem.
Der Is, 1915,
Mr.. Cowan l. son OF the late John
G. Cowan, and vas born and raised
near New POlnt, and Is also brother
OF Charley Cowsn, OF his city.