The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1902-06-04

opening up the ore bodies. When the
lower crOsscut tunnel reaches the vein,
IL will then be a continuous drift. The
upper tunnel will go in on the ledge from
the start, about $50 from where it is cut
in the lower workings, which will at that
point have attained vertical depth Of
200 feet. Here an upraise will be driven,
through to tn" mouth OF the upper tun-
mel. At this point it il estimated that
pay ore will be encountered, and the up
raise will he a great convenience in stop
ing. Its principal use, however, will he
for the transmission Of ore from the up
per workings TO the mill, making that
process practically gravity proposition.
Some idea Of the vast amount Of backs
that will be gained can be formed from
the fact that when the lower tunnel Is
in 400 feet its vertical depth will be
1000 feet, while the upper tunnel, when
it reaches II print perpendicularly above,
will he only $50 feet in length, with fully
300 feet Of depth,
Aud Warren Cable can walk up an in
cline like that with more easy grace than
he can glide along level ground, 80 long
has been his experience and fixed the
habit Of prowling around these hills in
search Of their hidden treasures.
The old workings, aged ten or II dozen
years, on which the patent was granted,
consist Of the usual open cuts to locate
the vein, II shaft sixty feet deep and n
tunnel $50 feet long, far up the noun
tain side, probably 1900 feet above the
creek Both the shaft and the tunnel
are in ore all the way, huuging close the
hanging wall. Still further up, prob
ably POO feet, there is II prominent out.
cropping, standing up full six feet and
about twenty in length. Mr.. Cable says
there is the rich pay shoot and under
that point he predicts will bc found ore
tina, will carry values fully as high ~
those recently taken from the North
Pole and Golconda-both mines near by
that have excited the mining world.
that several years since he packed out
II couple Of tons from II ten-foot hole, tn
which he pointed while expounding the
theory, that millcd ~. That is the
highest value ever found on the surface
in Cracker Creek district.
In this connection, MIR. Cable ad-
yanccd the theory that the Golconda is
no, "n the same ledge with the Column
biu. North Pole and T.. Il f., but that il
is ON II parallel vein, the same that runs
through the Crackcr-O Oregon. lie says
II can be- traced very distinctly between
the two mines, while the Colum bia
ledge swings of into the Climax. 1t Is,
Of course, presumptious for the writer to
put up his Judgment against the best
posted man in the district, but on this
point hc begs leave to differ, ut the same
time granting Mr.. Cables contention
tina, the ore from the Golconda and
the Cracker.O Oregon are practically idch.
tically the same.
| There il no crosscut in either the old
tunnel ar shaft, 81 the width Of this
ledge is not accurately known. The
open cuts show il to be from fifteen Ia
forty feet wide. II il good and strong
enough, all right. Assay values are evil
IDENTITY satisfactory, rs the character and
extent oi the work planned demonstrates.
II has always been understood that they
are somew hat higher than the average
Of that locality. Superintendent Cable
has made his tests thus far only by pan.
ming, which shows colors everywhere.
The company owns 5000 feet Of this vein.
Leave your measure for suit Of