The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-04-12
OROyHLE COPPER COMPANY.

The Oroville Copper Company is the
name of a new corporation that was
formally organized in Oroville Tues
day by the election of officers and the
final formulation Of pians that prom
Use to result in the opening up OF one
of the most important mining holdings
in this vicinity, in a manner and upon
a scale that promises in advance the
evolution of paying mine.
The property that has been taken
over by the Oroville Copper company
is the old o. X. mine, owned and work.
ed spasmodically for so many years
by Geo. A. Blackwell, of Riverside,
who for the present at least is a fixed
resident of Oroville. The Oroville Cop
per company is fortunate in being be-
hind a property that has the distinc-
ton of being about the only shipper
in this neighborhood, wherein the
shipments have have proved to be
profitable to the operators. At odd in
tervals in past years ore has been
hauled from the o. K, situated some
six miles north of Oroville, almost di-
rectly on the international boundary,
and from here freighted out by rail to
the smelter. 1t is only within the past
eighteen months that the o. K. could
be classed as a regular shipper. The
mine was worked at first by j. P. Cor
merly and Fred Neal on royalty, and
the lease was afterwards taken over
by J. F. Gormerly and Charles Anton
son. These men were handicapped for
lack of capital to properly work the
claims in order to get the best re-
suits. They had to extract ore through
the primative means of the hand drill,
by muscular power, and hence
progress was slow and unsatisfactory.
And yet, under this handicap the two
men, with very slight assistance, man
aged to ship out car lots Of ore at in
tervals and the returns on the same
paid them better than wages, and left
a comfortable bonus for the owner.
Recently c. D. Rones. A. w. Crisp
and H. D. James, of Milwaukee became
in the o. K, and through
their efforts the organization OF the
Oroville Copper company, with a cap
italization of $1,OO0,000 was affected.
As stated above the company was or
ganized on a business basis, Tuesday.
at a meeting Of the principal stock
holders in the Hotel de Grubb. c. u.
Rones was chosen as president and
Geo. A. Blackwell vice.
president, and J. P. Gormerly SUPER
intendent. The board of directors is
made up of c. D. Rones, Geo. A. Black.
we'll, A. W. Crisp, H. D. James and J.
P. Gormerly.
1t is the purpose of the new COM
pany to inaugurate at once very ex-
tensive improvements at the mine. put
ting in electric power, and using pow
er drills to carry on extensive develop
ment. When all the plans are carried
out the Oroville Copper company will
be one of the best modernly equipped
mines in this section of the country
prepared to obtain maximum results
from a minimum cost of operation. A
power line is to be erected from the
power plant of the Okanogan Valley
Power company, at the falls Of the
to the mine to furnish RI
the motor energy. This will require
the building of line over the hill from
the river to the mine, distance OF
only some three miles. A 50-horse
power motor and 40-horse power
is to be installed to op-
crate the machine drills and for such
other power as may be needed, and
the entire mine and premises electric
ally lighted. A boarding house, bunk
house, compressor building, black
smith shop, office and residence for
the superintendent is to be erected.
1t will not be necessary to spend
much money in preliminary work in
the making of mine in this case, for
the company takes over mine already
made with large ore bodies carrying
good values opened up. There is
neither speculation as to the possibili-
ties of the future in the matter Of
production, or any chance taken in the
problem of reaching ore in working
the old o. X. claims, and the intalla-
ton of machinery is not for the pur-
pose of prospecting, only to expedite
and make easier the opening up Of the
lodges already in sight and extracting
of the ore. There is not better min
eralized zone along the international
boundary, in British Columbia or the
States, than on Kruger mountain,
where numerous excellent and partly
developed claims exist, and among the
best of all of them, as investigation
has clearly proven. is the claims now
held and to be worked by the Oroville
Copper company.