El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-16
Mines and
Mining.

\ Mining. I
official Report on The Dundee Mine
Prof w b Seamon, the we'll known
mining engineer recently visited the
| for the purpose of making an expert re-
port on the property. Manager Gif-
| ford of the Orion Mining company, to
which company the Dundee belongs,
furnishes the report for publication
Ard says: "Tbis report is from q man
who knows more about mining In q day
than 1 expect to learn Ia a life time. [
am pleased with the report because 1t
ia conservative. 1 feel our ckholders
they will have the courage to keep up
cur present development work for an
other year."
THE DUNDEE CLAIM OF THE ORION
MINING COMPANY.
This claim is one hundred and forty
ely ht miles west of Ell Paso and three
miles south OF ordsburg, = station on
the s. r. railway, with which it is con-
nected by good wagon road with easy
grades. The claim is full siz ,, 800 by
quartz whose groupings extend from
one extremity to the other. Ia add
ton to this vein there are several
others, some of which seem TO be ex-
tensions or stringers from the fret
mentioned vein. One of these has
been partially developed with satisfao
tory results.
Development. Three hundred feet
soath of the north end center there Is
deep, at the bottom there Is drift to
the north 45 feet ia length ,aud another
to the south 20 feet In length. A vein
OF quartz Is shown, carrying silver,
GOLD and copper, in every portion of
these Workings. The minimum width
of the vein 10 10 inches, the maximum
80 inches aud the average 20 inches.
AZ the vein has been opened at the
surface over these workings and It's
ground may be regarded as lore block
{ d out"
This ore averages $3.50 in silver,
S3 20 in gold and 81 20 in copper, q
total of S13. 80 per ton. In this block
there ars $1,000 cubic feet, or 1900
tons, whiob, taken at $3.50 per ton
makes Q total of S2S, 600. The entire
for a distance of little over 600 feet
10 as average depth OF Il feet and
show the ore vein in width from one |
TO three feet absolutely continuous.
Two hundred feet south OF the first |
shaft there is another good shaft 30 feet
deep with . drift to the south 10 feet in |
length and one to the north just start |
ID, both of which are being extended. |
In these workings the vein varies In |
width from six feet 10 fifteen inches and |
The average value of the ore Is 5 800 per |
nf
quarter to one and one half inches in |
thickness running as high as 30 per
cent copper
Az about 500 feet from the south end
q tunnel has been run into the |
aill for a distance of 80 feet showing
| two feet vein: but being near the
surface the values in silver and copper
he mouth Of the tunnel there are six
Get of high grade ore which Is found
yOing down. The average of this ore
5, in silver, ST; gold, 1925 and copper
80. There are streaks in this part
wO feet in width in which the silver,
.oid and copper values run up to $50
Der ton.
Shaft Il on parallel vein, or an ex-
ension from the main vein, is SO feet
leep with drifts to the north and south
tarted. The vein here commenced on
he surface inchs in width, widening
O IL inches at the bottom, some of IL I
unning % high as 20 per cent in cop =,
,er. The ore from this working aver I
'ges 1915 in silver, So 80 In gold and ,
'l3 80 In copper, total of 500 Is per s
on. Everything here lends convic ,
ion to the belief that the vein will
continue down and become permanent. &
Ore In sight. Upon the main vein I
he ore chute has been exposed for q I
distance of 675 feet, showing In work. &
ngs q width of two feet. One shaft
Town so feet and another 100 feet,
With it's drifts, show the vein Is per-
nabent to q depth of 100 feet and still |
,oipg down. There 10 no reason to 6
oppose it will not extend to q depth {
II over 400 feet and is proven to extend
y q depth of 100 feet. There is, there
o. e, 675x2x1O0 135, OO6 cubic feet OF ore I
q eight, equivalent to 13, 500 tons.
Fab ing at its lowest average, So, there I
8 Sl08, 900 worth of ore in sight.