Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-23
MORE ABOUT THE BRITANNIA.
TO the Inter Mountain.

TO the Inter Mountain.
Having an interest in the Britannia
copper property on Howe Sound near
Vancouver, and having spent several
days in it's examination I desire to offer
YOU the following translation into Eng
lish of the description of that property
which appeared in your paper last even
ing II which was taken from the New
York Mining and Engineering Journal.
The Britannia is located thirty miles
north of Vancouver. on Howe sound, at
an elevation Of $500 feet above sea lever.
and three and one-half miles from deep
salt water. The lead is large. and has
been traced through eve claims, which
form the Britannia group. The dip OF the
lead is abou. forty-five degrees, and Is
into the hill whose slope is at an angle OF
about thirty degrees from the horizon.
The formation is a contact betWeen schlst
and quartzite, the latter forming the
hanging wall. An open cut on one oI
the claims shows forty feet of ore, cop
per n iron pyrites. A crosscut tunnel
Immediately below this cut taps the lead
at right angles at a depth OF 130 feet,
showing tWenty-siX feet OF similar ore.
Drifts both ways on the lead from this
crosscut. probably seventy-five feet in all,
are still in ore. Six or seven hundred feet
away from these developments are other
openings on the lead which indicate that
at that point it is about 125 feet in width.
The schist foot wall has worn down so
that the ore body is exposed here. and a
tunnel has been run into it some thirty
feet, the face being still in ore.
Careful samples of the ore in the forty
foot open cut and in the crosscut and
drifts above referred to show values Of
between six and seven per cent copper,
wv dollars in gold and three ounces in
silver. About five feet of the ore or the
footwall is massive and will go ten and
twelve per cent opp but the result
given is a general average, and the low
est Of all the samples taken. At the Sec
ond crosscut mentioned above, a general
sample gives six to seven per cent cop
per. between nine n ten dollars in gold
and three ounces silver. The ore 0 n
c%entrates six into one.
This property is now owned and cor
trolled principally by Howard c. Walters,
formerly manager of the Pacific North
west Mining corporation of London, for
which he bought the Snowshoe mine at
Libby; Chas. w. McMeekin, formerly en-
gineer in charge of construction on this
Big Basin creek dam south of Butte and
later with the Anaconda company at
Anaconda. has. r. Leonard and H. L.
Frank of Butte. n c. E.. Conrad of Kali
ispell. A force of about twenty-five men
is busy digging holes on it and the owners
intend to put the property into produc-
ton as fast as money n energy will do
it. A stream Of water as big as Warm
Springs creek at Anaconda runs past this
group of mines. n falls thirty-fi v
hundred feet in three miles and a half.
the country is covered with a dense
growth of large Alaskan fir. and out q
short distance away, on the east shore
of Vancouver Island are Goa mines and
coke ovens. in operation.
Samples of every breed of rock sharp
there is, from the jackrabbit expert up
to Jack Adams of Butte, have examined
this property, and the values given above
are the lowest obtained by any of them.
FRANK M. LEONARD.