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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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development hasbeen done to a considerable extent is Red Cap Creek. Several Copper 396 MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES. companies, namely the Red Cap, La Perin have held claims onthe ridge between Boise and Red Cap creeks and have done considerablework. Much rich copper ore has been found in the slides from the hillsbut the ore has never been found in place. No development is beingdone at the present time and the old tunnels have caved in and thebuildings gone to ruin. Nothing in the way of development is being done on Lassen Creek inT. 1 S., R. 4 E., or on the Rainbow or Crimson groups, in T. 1 S., R. 1 E.,in the IMattole mining district. Horse Mountain District. Horse Mountain Copper Mine. This property consists of ten groupsof claims, making 70 claims in all. They are unpatented and are situ-ated on Horse Mountain in Sees. 33 and 34, T. 6 N., R. 4 E., andSees. 3 and 4, T. 5 N., R. 4 E., at an altitude of 5000 feet. The prop-erty is owned by the Horse Mountain Copper Company, which is a
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Mill of the Horse Mountain Copper Mine, Humboldt County, California. HUMBOLDT COUNTY. 397 stock company. The railroad from Eureka runs to within 25 miles ofthe mine and this distance is covered by a good wagon road. Theoriginal claims were located by Dave Wilson in 1907. The strike of theformation is northwest and southeast and dips about 40° NE. Thereare six crosscut tunnels and one adit level, also some open cuts. Thereis 3000 feet of underground development, mostly drifts and crosscuts.Steam supplies the power for the sawmill and two Huntington mills(one being 3J and the other 5 feet). It also furnishes power for aBlake ore crusher, two Dodge secondary crushers, one Standard andone United concentrating table and two classifiers. Twenty-six menare employed underground and on the surface. Some concentrateshave been shipped to Humboldt Bay but have not reached the smelter. The middlings are stored for future treatment. The concentratesaverage 20% copper and the middlings about f % co

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