The news-herald., 1902-03-01

extend his arms to their full reach
without so much as touching the
walls on either side. But the min
er will soon see that there is meth
cd in this, and several good reasons
for these broad and high openings.
First OF all, they do not entail
the handling Of an extra amount Of
waste; all of the ore, whether IN
drift or cross cut, goes onto the
first class ore dump. Next, this ore
in particular breaks much better to
the drill on broad face than a
narrow one, and lastly the miner,
not being cramped in his move
ments, can handle himself much
better and thus accomplish more
work. In marching freely through
these high-ceilinged levels one
might fancy himself in the subterr-
anean corridors OF some great fort
ress.
The trite saying that gold is
where you find it was never, to my
knowledge, more exemplified than
here in the Orc Grande, The en-
tire body of gangue, whose limits,
by the way, have been defined in
sixty feet Of cross cutting and 800
feet Of tunneling, is Of tale; and few
miners or prospectors would go to
the expense Of having an ordinary
piece Of tale assayed for gold values.
I suspect that this is one of tho
reasons why the value OF this de-
posit remained SO long undiscoyer-
ed. At the 300 foot level, the low
est depth yet reached, cross cut
each way. indicates the width of
the ore body to be 60 feet wide be-
tween diorite walls. This space
a noble body Of ore Ev-
en- should the ore go no deeper
than this level, there is enough ore
blocked out above it-1O,800,000
feet, or say 100000 tons-to keep
the mine running several years.
And the ore averages $12 per ton,
tie value of the block being about
100000.
The ridges that enclose this tale
body at a little distance are mainly
Of diorite ESQ called) and | noted q
good sized cropping of black quartz
that evidently strikes southeast
across one Of the claims, in which,
on breaking a fragment, quite a
good sized speck of gold was dis
closed.
Orc Grande camp is a model Of
neatness and convenience. The
hoist il the central figure and a.
round it cluster the various other
buildings needed in a camp like
this, while at a higher point of the
hill, commanding an easy view OF
the entire camp, is the office and
dwelling house OF Manager Upton,
who is also vice president OF the
company. Here I found Mr.. Up
ton and family, and after short
and pleasant call, joined them at
lunch, after which Mr.. Upton took
me through the mine and after
wards through the camp generally.
Here [ was particularly attract
ed by the cleanliness and well kept
air Of the miners sleeping rooms.
They were all in one house, whose
dimensions | have forgotten, but at
any rate it was wide enough to
contain a wide hallway running
through from north to south, on
both sides of which doors opened
into double and single rooms to
the number Of fourteen. The bed
steads are all OF white painted
iron, such as our Prescott hotels
are furnished with, and each room
has a table, two chairs and wash
stand. There are eight double
rooms with two beds each, and six
single rooms with one bed.
An interesting hour or more was
spent panning out the fine stuff
that came up, bucket after bucket,
from the bottom Of the 800 foot
level. We would dip into the ore
bucket each time it came up, before
it was dumped, and discarding all
but the finest, we would wash it
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