The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-21
Two High-Grade Ore Shoots Tap
ped Within Thirty-fve Feet.
CROPPING MYSTERY SOLVED.
SUPERINTENDENT NcJoitan Says the
Calumet Cropping IL the bisGes
He Has Ever seen-sryenfeeh
Men Rushing work on the Nine
plan TO Operate Both Tunnels
and Connect Them Daring Winter

J.hn McMnlian, superintendent Of sne
Ca1urnes mine az Index. WHO was IL t"@
civ Yesterday. said We nave E"Feafe@ti
ruep K work and haye aGaiTa IL @Hch
shape that Developments car - cStfl"0 Oh
dt,ins, the winter wifhout fear Of inter-
rtusflon from Slide or storms. unl"aS II -
al the upper tanneis. saturday W. VIII
move from The Old camp which l. naii 4
mile from the working. into iE4f Tic"
cat,ins az The lower tUnuel- Ny present
.Ian ig Ia continue driving the upper tnii-
mel This i. Bgw thirty feet 10 solid or"
that cropa fifteen feet II "id;Ei, = dlStah'S.
Of go feet II il tA@ biggest cropping /
ever saw in al ms mining experience -
reach t. from the cabins Ia prett. su'f
rnpa climb az rr1o,e than 20 feet. but have
no fear Of snow slides here because Of the
pyeeiniions ton. on which the sfow
does not accumulate.
'sThe lower tunnel. which Will be undef
cover soon starts at "a safe distance from
the slide channel Of the assure. and at
thirty feet viii tap the ledge AZ q depth OF
go fact When driven 90 feet ar upfaiac
viii be started for connection with the up
Ter tunnel The connection Will be made
at polat eighty feet in the upper tam
nel. THIS will require .lty feet additional
work in the face Of which the Wine VIII
be sunk.
.arhs Calumet is soft ground and will
prove cheap mining. Three feet shift can
be made without strain. II Is the present
intention TO work two shifts. weather and
accidents not preventing Every one that
has seen the cropping of the Calumet
which is barred by water course. Inarveis
mt it, ard the fate 0! this property VIII
have much to De- with the fame OF Index
az copper camn.
Double strike In the Copper King.
Mr.. McAguiian is also gIperintendent Of
the Copper King bat has the work in such
smooth running order thai during the win
ter season he Will give the Calumet devet-
opment most az his time and attention.
Five days ago a second ledge and ore shoot
were struck In the Copper King tunnel
The very rich groupings ~ this mine were
so ch0ppy and broken ~ that the precise
location % 4 ledge WA not determined at
the surface.
The mystery has been solved partly by
the orosscut tunne; In ninety feet of work
At atty feet II cFosse, q ftve-foot vein.
the contents of which averaged per cent
copper one foot ~ this sampled Is per
cent copper. ~ the ninety-foot measure
ment another and "a larger ledge WAS
broken into through the fOotwau, agaiust
which laid foot and a half og hlKh-grado
copper ore. ~ last reports. before Mr. II 70
Mulan iest Index the tunnel was six feet
in lesser grade ore. ana the hanging
wail had nos been reached
The supposition H. tha' ihe hanging wall
viii be found n hoi another high-erade
ore shoot ans that tho groupings are TIE
scoriugs from two distinct ussures. as the
Intervening ground. thiriy-i i've fset wide
f. country rock. The Copper King IS
equipped fer winter work. and when the
hanging wal OF No ledge has been un-
covered drifting viii 40 started on both
pay shoots The gain of depth IN the
drifts will 10 nearly foot FOR foot.