The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

purpose of the tunnel being to ascertain whether the slate formation changed to granite at that depth. and this was found to be the case. This tunnel was started from the old mine cellar of Dr Ulrich and is called by that name. There were cut by this tunnel four veins, besides sev- eral small stringers of quartz. Near the contact of the siates and granite there are two veins one eighteen inches and the other six inches, with twelve inches of slate between. The ting being includ- ed gives an ore body of three feet.
 One hundred feet north of the mill Is a shaft called No. l, ~l-ich was sunk down 100 feet by Dr. Ulrich and abandoned. It is Sx1Z and walls are in good con- dition, It was inaccessible on account of water, but I was told by Dr. Cameron that he carried it to depth of 110 feet and drove a crosscut of thirty feet, cut ting a vein of four feet strongly defined in the granite. Assay. s5.S0 per ton.
 About 800 feet and north 10 degrees west from the mill is Shaft No. 2. This shaft is SKIP with three compartments and Is TAO feet deep. There is cross cut of 4 feet at the 50-foot level. and one of 25 feet at 92-foot level. The workings from this haft were inaccessible except the 50-foot level which went into. The shaft cuts a vein just below the 50-foot level. could not examine 1t. and a few feet from the shaft the cross-cut cuts a vein of IS inches, assay record $S.6S per ton. At 70 feet from shaft in this cross cut another vein is cut through. On the right Is a stop extending up to and con- meeting with Shaft No. 3. known as the Dirt Shaft from the fact that 1t was sunk in a sag of the hill and does not pass through the slates. I measured three feet of solid quartz in this slope. There Is an inclined drift, or wing on the left of this cross cut, extending down to the wine cellar tunnel. The face of the wine cellar tunnel is about 12 feet beyond this drift and is into the slatea again. The vein in the connecting drift was very irregular. The cross cut at the a2-foot level. from Shaft No. 2. cut a vein, assay record s630f per ton.
 Shaft No. or dirt shaft" was in- accessible on account of dangerous con- dition of ladder. The notes of the same as given me by Dr. Cameron were 6x6 single compartment. 60 feet deep, with cross cut 40 feet east at bottom. At 2o- foot cut vein five feet thick, drifted on vein each way, 3S feet and 50 feet, re- spectively. and sloped to surface. In- cline on vein from same cross cut 36 feet. Assay record $500 per ton.
 About 700 feet due north from mill . tunnel was started on a due west course to cross cut the formation, and develop veins west of the mill series. The tun- nel cut several veins. but as there is hardly more than 30 feet of cover over the tunnel, they are badly shaken up and do not seem to be in place. The tunnel is about 250 feet long and cuts through slate. gueiss and decomposed granite. Near this tunnel are two old tunnels, driven by Dr. Ulrich, they are about 500 feet long passing through the hill They A.-t.. cuts were made. They were sloped to surface and are not now accessible. There are also numerous tunnels and slopes driven in last few years. but are now inaccessible. A vast amount of open cut work was done by present owner. It does not present a good appearance, but was done for legitimate reasons, and does not detract from the value of the prop erty as a deep mining proposition.
 At the time he d1.. this work he only had ten stamps, and not having any concentrating machinery. worked only the free milling ores. By the open-cut method he was able to select his ore, and hot handle the refractory ores uselessly. Some of the open cuts were taken out for a considerable depth and the walls, many of which are still standing. showed good strong veins of three. four and even five feet. I am also informed that he
 
 profitably.
 I followed the open cuts of the mill series about three quarters of a mile northeast along Quartz CT. Ridge; but as 1t was raining and growing dark l did not have time to go to where the most prospecting had been done.
 Some of the prospecting notes on this section were given me as follows: Vein No. open cut six feet deep: ore body 26 feet, assay $4.OO. Vein No. g. open cut, feet deep, ore body 26 feet wide. $490 Vein No. 4, open cut. shows 10 feet ore west wall not reached; assay &300 up.
 In Section g. about three-quarters of a mile northwest of the mill. some devel- opment has been done by a tunnel, known as Vosburg Tunnel, Sx6 1-2 driven In sS feet, cuts a vein at IS feet and drifted to south about 25 feet vein only inches abandoned. At face cuts vein average about 10 inches and drifted about 120 feet on it. This tunnel is not over 20 feet un. der cover, owing to it's shallow depth. and Is hardly a satisfactory development of the veins. 3O0-ton mill test from this vein gave average of T Near by and just north of Vosbur@ Tunnel workings is a shaft 6xS feet, 20 feet deep and one shaft 6x1o feet. II feet deep and two drifts on vein 4x6x26 and 30 feet. These latter were inaccessible on account of water.
 The Lackey cut, to which I have re- ferred, is an open cross cut into the s'de hill The cut is about 75 feet long and IS feet deep, where it cuts into and ex- poses the vein. This is the strongest vein I hays seen on the property. and can be easily and rapidly developed by an incline on the vein. Dr. Cameron was not willing to be quoted to the average assay value of vein, as there has not been enough work done on it to get a fair av- craze. He Is confident that 1t will be be- tween the limits of s4 and $1s00 per ton. The assay records on the Muscota or mill series of veins, beginning with the first vein in wine cellar tunnel and num- herring them consecutively to west are as follows: No. 1, average $S6s; No. 2