The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-09
Plan to Test the Cropping Ore
Shoot BY Blocking It.
DEVELOPING eY TWO TUNNELS.
Expectation That They Will he Con-
neeted by n 1907 DOT shaft Win
in Forty-Five Days-This Work
should Prove the Continuity and
Value of the Ors-A Cnriond Ieas
20 Be Made at the Everett Works.

Joe ~. Young who has returned from
the Calumet at Index, says the ne"
aerial tramway should be In operation
Saturday. THE erection OF IL. he add-
cd has been attended by many dlfflcu9-
ties but II was the determination OF tfie
mans cement ~ set the surface plant ~
such shape before winter set In AS wouId
enable III TO make a fair nll3i test Df the
Calumet ore body. The upper tunnel Is
working if solid shoot OF the best min
eral we have found on the property. and
has reached a poin. about 81 feet from
It's mouth. This ore we have begun 10
SEND down 30 the lower tunnel To TIE
ndit face Of which the new tramway 10
bGckied or anchored Thence IL will be
moved below 10 the shipping level. when
q carload has been sent To- Everett and
fairly tested. the stockholders Will Know
better how To estimate the worth of the
property. and something like correct cal
culations can be- made IN the best pro-
cess Of treatment TO be provided for the
extraction % the values. II can then
be decided whether "a mating furnace or
"A concentrating plant IL advisable"
What progress IS making with the
underground plans" was asked,
Up to date Developments have been
slow uuavnidahly. We have worked
steadily from seventeen tn twenty men
en- surface rnproysneuts-that Is to say.
setting W the houses for ne" and
convenient camp. building trails. putting
tn the gravity tramways and clearing for
the lower tunnel in dead ground that IL
safely remote from the possible snow
slide channel Of the guich through which
the copper shoots Of the Calumet
vertically crop. The Rdtt Of the lower
tunnel was made large enough to par
Eait ~ the complete sheltering Of the
tramway workings In fact IL il huge
excavation int the solid formation
From this adit the lower tunnel which
has been started. will swing through the
country rock distance 81 about forty
feet into the ledge. which II will tap
ssf FaHf
pings In the eroded assure /; has been
our plan To escape II Will then follow
the ore shoot IL Is certain 10 tap for l7J
feet where an upgaise will he made
The upper tunnel Of which. "a I said
thirty-ffve feet have been driven. will
De continued To length OF seYanty- Ave
feet, when wtuze will be sunk To meet
the upraise. When the wtnze and up
raise are finished the shaft connection
between the two tunnels viii be $50 feet
and feel perfectly safe I'm predicting
that the block thus measured hy the two
tunnels and the connecting shaft Will
prove To be the SAME high grade copper
or" found for fifteen feet IN width at
the crnpptngs'
How long time do you estimate II
will take To complete the connection
We are averaging 81 feet shift on
both tunnels. and with one shift steadily
at work on the upper and two on the
lower We should have this block com
pleted IN forty or forty five days Then
with the results of a carload mill test
the stockholders az the Calumet should
have pretty good idea a# 10 whether
they are Interested In "a mine or a min
ing problem"