California mines and minerals . ion of this section, its treatment of patrons infreight matters has been fair, and I am satisfied it will make reason-able concessions, in the way of making light rates, to all enterprisesworthy of encouragement. There will be a lucrative field for anelectrolytic plant, to treat all the copper matte, which will soon beproduced here, and which must now be shipped east, at a cost of $15per ton, to be refined. The metallic copper can then be shipped forone-half the present freight expense. Abundance of water powermay be found for power purposes in the Sacramento, M
California mines and minerals . ion of this section, its treatment of patrons infreight matters has been fair, and I am satisfied it will make reason-able concessions, in the way of making light rates, to all enterprisesworthy of encouragement. There will be a lucrative field for anelectrolytic plant, to treat all the copper matte, which will soon beproduced here, and which must now be shipped east, at a cost of $15per ton, to be refined. The metallic copper can then be shipped forone-half the present freight expense. Abundance of water powermay be found for power purposes in the Sacramento, McCloud, andtheir many tributaries, and installed at a cost of $225 per horse-power. Steam power, as at present developed from wood and coal,costs $110 per horse-power per year; so the economy of electricpower installation is at once apparent. The limestone cropping northof Squaw Creek, and along the two Backbone Creeks, will furnish apracticably inexhaustible field for procuring this fluxing material, nec-essary for those THE COPPER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA 215 The Stowell Mines consist of seven patented claims, immediatelysouth-west of the Balakalala. They have the usual gossan croppingson top, but only limited development work to show the extent ofsulphides. The Mammoth group, on Backbone Creek, has some recentdevelopment work, which indicates an extensive body of sulphide ore,showing at one point a length of 120 feet of ore along the lode, whichhas been cross-cut for eighty feet without showing the wall. It isthe property of R. M. Saeltzer, of Redding, and consists of eighteenclaims, with 640 acres of patented land. The Goslinsky Mine lies eastof the Mammoth, and has been bonded to Lewisohn Brothers, of NewYork, who have, for the past six months, been doing developmentwork on it. Considerable copper indications are shown on StillwaterCreek, but the largest deposit has been proven to exist at Bully HillMine, near Copper City. This property lies twenty-five miles north-e
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