Arizona silver belt., 1896-08-27
OLD DOMINION.
Important Discoveries of Ore in
 the Lower Workings.
BARNEvALD A FALSE PROPHET.

reply to the false and defamatory state. ments published in the Engineering and Mining Journal, of New York, of June 20, regarding the Old Dominion Copper Mining and Smelling Co.,, and which was made by tho local cores pendent, 70. E. B." who we have since learned is O. E. van Barnevald, late in the employ of the United Globe Mines. Mir. Barnevald appears tc have gained the confidence of the edi, tor of the Engineering and Mining Journal to such degree that his state. ments were received and published as ''gospel truth, and the Journal, with what we consider very poor judgment and bad grace, refused to publish ouI reply to the assault made by their cor. respondent upon the Old Dominion management, the value of the mine and the reputation of Globe district for the production of copper.
 The auimus of Barnevald's state. ments was so manifest, that no on. possessing even a meagre knowledge ot the Old Dominion Copper Company, and the mineral resources of this dis trict, could for moment mistake their purpose.
 Barnevald had been a resident of Globe but few months and his oppor- tunities for obtaining reliable informa- ton had been few when he essayed to enlighten the mining world as to the condition of the Old Dominion Con- pany's mine and the incompetence of the local management. He could have written with more intelligence on ''the mistakes of Noses" He had never been in the company's mine and had no reliable data upon which to base his assertions.
 Barnevald's principal stock Tn trade is self-assurance; he is not even what he professes to be, competent chem ist, as an analysis made by him here, and for which he was paid, was incor- rect, and samples had to be sent else where to get correct return.
 Barnevald, in his communication to the Journal, asserted that the Sth level was altogether barren, and the vein wedge shaped and the walls gradually coming together as depth increases. This assertion proved his ignorance of the mine, as the sth level, at the time he wrote. had not been opened except by two short drifts in which there were then occurrences of ore. Since work was resumed, July G, the Sth level has been more extensively opened and both drifts are in ore. That on the western end is very high grade carbonate ore hiii "hs thCoNuttitu iu SIpSStut north toward the foot wall; they are now driving west in ore. This occur renee is in large body of iron ore and is undoubtedly very large.
 The eastern drift is in large body of high grade sulphide, oxide and na- tive copper.
 The limits of these ore bodies are not yet determined, but from the character of the occurrences the management is led to believe that they will be of the most satisfactory size and richness.
 In addition to these important de- velopments on the Sth level, the shaft is now passing into the foot-wall, at which point, some 80 feet below the Sth level, the vein matter is heavily charged with mineral; this ore will be met with when developing the 9th level, 20 feet deeper.
 The importance of these occurrences of ore can scarcely be overestimated, insuring, as they do, very large re- zion of rich mineralized ground, which gives to the Old Dominion Company's mine long lease of life.