. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. alclaims were located in 1905. The country rock is mostly serpentineAvith dikes of porphyritic diorite and granodiorite. The ores consist ofchalcopyrite, chalcocite, cuprite, and free copper. The strike is north-west and southeast and the dip 45° to the northeast. The undergroundworkings consist of three crosscut tunnels, 25, 100 and 700 feet, respec-tively. There are 750 feet of drifts, 20 feet of winze and 210 feet ofraise. Assessment work only is being done and no ore has
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. alclaims were located in 1905. The country rock is mostly serpentineAvith dikes of porphyritic diorite and granodiorite. The ores consist ofchalcopyrite, chalcocite, cuprite, and free copper. The strike is north-west and southeast and the dip 45° to the northeast. The undergroundworkings consist of three crosscut tunnels, 25, 100 and 700 feet, respec-tively. There are 750 feet of drifts, 20 feet of winze and 210 feet ofraise. Assessment work only is being done and no ore has been surface buildings consist of a cook house, bunk house and black-smith shop. Sweet Home Copper Mine. This property consists of eight claims of160 acres of unpatented land adjoining the Horse Mountain mineand lies in Sec. 28, T. 6 N., R. 4 E., at an altitude of 4800 feet. Theproperty is owned by the Sweet Home Mining Company of Eureka,E. P. Shier, president. A wagon road crosses the property and iswithin 1000 feet of the main workings. The ores are the same as those 398 MINES AND MINERAL of the Horse Mountain mine. The strike is east and west and the dip45° N. There are four crosscut tunnels and 230 feet of drifts. Thecompany is doing assessment work only and some ore has been shippe<Ifor a test. The ores are chalcoeite, bornite, cuprite and native surface equipment consists of a bunk house, cook house and ablacksmith shop. Buhy Copper Mine. This property consists of thirty-eight claims or760 acres of unpatented land situated to the northwest of the Horse^Mountain Copper mine in Sees. 16, 21 and 28, T. 6 N., R. 4 E., atan altitude of 4500 feet. These claims are owned by the Ruby CopperiMining Company of Eureka, E. A. Walters, president, and Frank W. HUMBOLDT COUNTY. 399 Belcher, secretary. There is a wagon road to the mine. The originalclaims were located in 1907 and consist of the Blind Lead Group andthe Euby Group. Serpentine with di
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