The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-10-05

the ore body is traced through
and through from one to the
other and never fails to hold the
vein and it's rich ore. The solid
ore body we should Judge to be
four, in places perhaps, five hun
dred feet in length, while in
some points it is going ahead to
no one knows where. The
vein ranges very rarely below
eight inches and runs up to six
feet in width. The quality of
ore is grey copper, or copper
glance, of a very superior grade,
chloride and black copper. There
is in some places a little lead,
but so small per cent as not to
be named and we believe a little
gold in some of it; although the
wealth of the beds. is in its silver.
Where the vein runs to six feet
in width there are layers of slate
between the layers of ore; but
there are points in the vein
where the body is fully four feet
in width of pure, solid grey cop
per. This in some parts will
reach at least a thousand ounces
of silver to the ton, and all may
be termed of a superior high
grade from the narrowest to the
greatest width of the vein.
The vast developments are not
made for immediate reduction
under the present depressed
price of silver, but merely to see
what is the extent of this ore
body. Still in going on the vein
to find its vastness; its richness,
the owners have had to take
large quantities of ore out, until
they have every conceivable
place filed in the mine. in its
chutes, in beds and banks and
tunnels and store places. besides
the mining storehouse at the
foot of the tram, until they had
to relieve it for fear Of crushing.
There is now something over
1900 tons in store, in fact. dug
out. There seems to be ore
everywhere; besides the almost
endless amount in place. in
sight. For it must be rememb-
cred in giving a full description
of the present showing in this
mine that there are long distances
where the hanging wall has been
taken off and the vein lies strip
ped full width, in sight, on the
foot-wall, ready at any time to
be chopped off, or. as the miners
would put it, ready to be broken
down. A few hands, in this
mine could furnish large reduc-
tion works for year. with high
grades, if reduced by a smelling
process, OF. course it would take
few more under a milling pro-
cess, but the ore is there for any
manner of reduction.
Superintendent Emery, is now
building a new boarding house at
the mouth of tunnel still be-
low No. 4, to where, as we have
said before, the ore in No. 4 is
undoubtedly running. The old
boarding house was up near the
oldest works on this lode and
would be hard place to reach
from the new tunnel; and to live
there would cause great labor
and loss of time. Mr.. Emery
takes all these things into con-
sideration. To state it briefly,
he knows just about how to run
a mine. And he knows this ones
vast wealth and its future prom
ise, by theory, so plain that there
can be no mistake of the morrow
of the Ramshorn lode. No. 5
tunnel is only in 200 feet. but in
exact line to reach the coming
ore body under No. 4, and it is
the finest. truest tunnel we have
ever seen in a mine, with a fine
water hume under the t rail
track so that the waters above,
when reached, will all be con-
.veyed out and make all dry as
possible. The lode is not what
can be termed wet, but has some
water. This lode is composed
of three mines: The old Rams
horn, the Utah Boy and the Post
Boy. The part that we have de-
scribed. so far, is the former
two. The Post Boy has four
tunnels, one of 1880 feet in it
and is said to have immense
showings of a somewhat lower
grade of ore. but is wetter and
having been neglected on ac-
count of development work on
the others and the owners not
having pushed reduction, has
been neglected until bad air and
moisture made it an undesirable