. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. e. Ore body is wide and exten-sive ; short tunnel and open cuts. Idle. Bibl.: Bull. No. 50, p. 145. Eureka, in Sees. 17 and 18, T. 37 N., R. 7 W., in the Trinity Centermining district. Owners, Dimmock & Hoefler, of Carrville. Comprises2 claims; 50-foot tunnel; siliceous ore carrying a small percentage ofcopper sulphide. Idle. Fortuna, in T. 1 S., R. 6 E., near the Copper Queen. Owner, For-tuna Mining Company, of Fortuna, Cal., C. Sweet, president. Holdingsconsist of ]9 claims
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. e. Ore body is wide and exten-sive ; short tunnel and open cuts. Idle. Bibl.: Bull. No. 50, p. 145. Eureka, in Sees. 17 and 18, T. 37 N., R. 7 W., in the Trinity Centermining district. Owners, Dimmock & Hoefler, of Carrville. Comprises2 claims; 50-foot tunnel; siliceous ore carrying a small percentage ofcopper sulphide. Idle. Fortuna, in T. 1 S., R. 6 E., near the Copper Queen. Owner, For-tuna Mining Company, of Fortuna, Cal., C. Sweet, president. Holdingsconsist of ]9 claims, about 30 miles from Bridgeville. Only slightlydeveloped with open cuts and short tunnels. Conspicuous gossan crop-pings on claims. Ore is a sulphide of iron and copper. Idle. Granite, on Quimby Creek, 6 miles above its mouth, in Trinity Reserve. Owners, F. C. Patton et al., of Weaverville; 7 claims; ore occurs in serpentine and slate; some of the ore carries 25%; copper, with some gold; only little development work; facilities for mining are good. Bibl.: Bull. No. 50, p. 143. 880 MINES AND MINERAL 4> >OuQ. B c n)v> .S 5Lao CO coo TRINITY COUNTY. 881 Island Mountain Consolidated, in Sees. 9, 10 and 15, T. 5 S., R. 6 E.,in the Horseshoe mining district, 90 miles north of Ukiah. Owners,Leach and Wilcox, of Oakland, Cal. Comprises 275 acres along theEel River; elevation 750 feet; located in 1892; ore, iron sulphides,carrying copper, iron and zinc, occur in lenses between sandstone walls;strike northwest and southeast; gi*eatest depth 145 feet; workings con-sist of 400-foot tunnel and 2000 feet of drifts; claim 300,000 tons of orein sight; croppin<is in places 180 feet wide, and can be traced for 500feet; equipment consists of dwellings and shops; onh^ little work donesince 1895; about $20,000 has been spent in development work. TheNorthwestern Pacific Railroad is being built on a portion of this prop-erty and ore will be shipped to a smelter as soon as the
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