The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-08-04

portion Of the full paid and non-assessabIa
capitai stock OF the Boston q Texas Copper
company ~ offered for sale at Five Dollars Der
share tpar s1O) for Treasury purposes ~
Inc company controls twelve thousand acres
i oar,ch copper land IN North Texas which Is also
Valuable Tor farming and town-site purposes
Inc tract IL some 10 miles long and about three
miles wide. lt - equivalent In size TO five hun
uIeu ordinary mining claims.
The property has been developed sufficiently
10 begin producing at once, large amounts Of
.ne richest copper ore (i0 10 20 per cent? taken
out and marketed, and inexhaustibie quantities
of copper mari and clay running from } 10 IS per
cent. copper found. (Calunet and Hecia and
Stner S great dividend payers are working o. TO
The property is within ~ miles OF n railroad
anu iuel ana water are available. The ores and
mari are on the surface and few feet down,
ana can be mined and converted into copper
cheaper than any other deposits I'm America
Copper will be produced on the ground and a
plant of moderate cost will treat 800 10 500 tons
engineers estimates earn 5000 to Sot 5000 per q
now IL cts. per pound
Tne property has a historical reputation and
arecord IN the state Geological Reports. IL has
been examined and reported upon by the his ghest
engineering, geological and expert authorities,
anu am US merit and value are established beyond
ahquestion It's not an experiment., nor its value
speculative. they are proven and demonstrated.
From Report Of Prof WIN. DeRyee,
former state Chemist OF Texas.
"such numerous outcrops of copper ore have
been traced over the summit and sides of those
hills that out OF 1000 acres OF land which the
company own, hardly a i6O-acre tract should be
found without ore upon the surface
A cross-cut 10 The depth OF IS feet was made
npon the lsbeli lead, and ten hours work re-
suited IN the raising OF 6,o0o lbs. of rich copper
@ye, s,Seragng ss. about 80 per cent. of copper.
tits easily smelted and the strata in which IL ia
,Sanu ,San can aso be more economically excavated
From Report Of Prof. w. T.. Cummins.
former Geologist Of Texas.
In order that might see the condi- |
tion OF this lode after this amount OF work had |
been done. employed a few hands and cleaned 1
out the tunnels when found lode of conner |
Thisis the desulphatc OF copper and will Yield |
as high as 20 per cent of copper 1 drove rho
tunnel twenty feet further into the hill follow
ing The lode. When had gone about twelve feet
istruck another lode OF copper eighteen inches
cast ana SIX inches below The second lode. In
Inree feet more we struck another lode below
the second lode. immediately below the lower
saha,sone sah;l, Is stratum OF cnpriferous mari
echists extending the entire width of the tunnel |
say iour feet, and is probably much wider This |
mari VIII yield about Is per cent. of copper"
From Report OF Prof. Gustsve westman,
Mining Engineer.
al beg to express my entire satisfaction with
u anu commence IN the report made by Prof. w.
only had to remove one foot of earth from
the surface the three spots already msnt,oned |
IN order to find large deposits bedded into the
clay After washing, this clay was found TO con-
above. These ores could of course be taken
put and made available at q relatively small
expense"
From Report Of r. Burton, Everett.
Mining Engineer and Expert.
ARCHER City, TEXAS, MAY 2, 1909
Hon. EMERY Nj. Low, President, and Others
boston, Mass. Gentlemen - There 10
abundant evidence Of rich copper u.pos,,,.,
'nly at the mines already opened bnt at various {
sne, parts OK the property, and II is my opinion
ma, MAJ TINS VIII prove to be one of the exceptionally
zen copper-Dearing fields of the United Statet
Inc ores foundn these deposits n re- mmensely | !
cn In copper values, and the cuperiferous ciays
~, az s slso iound here Ia immense beds, while
ialue on account of the cheapness with which | v
hey can be mined and reduced. >
Ine mines are accessible at every point. tho :,
ost or mining will be very small, as the ore ia %
@ lot IN hard formation; and there is no deep o
have examined the various reports made hv o
thers, and confirm them. :,
AS far as have been able TO investigate, and =
nave done SO carefully, am OF the opinion | .
is one of the richest copper fields IN the v
ountry. Very respectfniIy yonrs '"'
+. BURTON EVERETT, NJ. e. C,
Mr. Everett was sent out from Boston TO k
Mr.. g. II: Savage, Mine Examiner of Butte. s
.,y AFTER samples OF ore from the prop L
You have the field you can pay 81 100000 diyi- o.
ends per year"
Atwood Assays W
LOWELL, June 2ist, $780, k,
have made rather basty examination Of ,bs az
ample OF copper ore which you gave me and
lbmi the report. hi
This ore swhat Is known as Chalcocite or con-
er glance and Is copper suphde &c in =, | 70
ainiywith some impurity such as iroa, gangue, M
II contains $3.50 of copper and is very fine
e; Inc percentage reported is correct TO ye
ithin one-ha OF one per cent.
Respectfully submitted, vi
W. Il. ATWOOD,
Chem. Hamilton Mfg Co. wi
LOWELL, June 27th, 1899.
.ar Sir:-
nave examined the four samples OF copper