Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-06-06
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the miner-that of pumping water
will be entirely eliminated. 1t should
be remembered that this will not be
true of one vein or mineral body alone,
but on every vein that they may cut in
the tunnel, and many large veins are
known to exist in their territory. Oft
times capitalists and investors, weary
of building a long tunnel to reach
known ore bodies and abandon the
work, while if carried on it would
prove a big paying Investment for
years. No ore bodies have ever been
so successfully mined with the great
est profit to the owners as the ore bod
les that have been tapped with great
depth by tunnel. Here ores may be
mined and successfully at a profit
that could never be made to pay even
the expenses of mining through a
shaft. Many illustrations of such in
stances are known to every miner.
The Orc Verde company own their
mineral ranch" where large veins are
known to oexist and some startling results
from surface prospecting have been
found. What ore values they have dis
covered is not known, as Mr.. Goodier
does not make the affairs of the COM
pany public gossip, and necessarily l
have to take most of my estimates of
their vein values from personal inspec-
ton and from the talk of the miners
However, there can be no better au-
thOrity as to the value of a mining
proposition than the miner, if you can
get him to tell what he sees and knows
to be facts. Their opinions of a
proposition on which they are en-
ployed. or have been employed, are
worth all the reports that the expert
can write, no matter if the scientific
pour out words of wisdom till dooms-
day. In my associations among the
miners of this district l have never
heard firmer beliefs made as to the
great worth of proposition than l
have heard of the Orc Verde. Some of
their talks would sound like fairy
tales. probably. to the investor, and
would not be believed for a moment;
but there talks have often been proven
to be the true situation by a personal
inspection. The most famous vein
owned by the company is the Ross
vein. which they purchased with 9TH
ers. | am reliably informed that this
vein made sensation in former years
by its production of rich ores This
vein has been cut in the Orc Verde
tunnel at a depth of nearly 500 feet,
and while little prospecting has been
done on the vein, some exceptionally
rich values were found There is ex-
posed in this vein good sized bodies of
ore worth $50. per ton. Assays on Sc
lected specimens have gone as high as
$4,000 per ton. While assays on select
ed or picked specimens cannot be TAX
en- as the true value of the ores in a
vein, it does prove that there are rich
ore bodies to be found and that they
do exist
1t has been the aim of the manage
ment to push their tunnel ahead to a
greater ore field that is known to lay
ahead of them; not in the high values
of the ores so much as in the large
bodies, and which will be opened up by
them at great depths, thus giving them
an almost inexhaustible ore supply.
With this end in view the tunnel has
been driven ahead. About 1000 feet
from the portal of the tunnel a large
vein of mineral has been cut which
shows some fair milling values of ore,
though little or no drifting has been
done on this vein, 1t is certainly a most
promising one. This vein is blind"
vein, and no values were looked for
though the showing here is so encour-
aging that the management has decid-
ed to prospect the vein farther, and
have several men working on the vein
drifting both ways, east and west. The
main bore of their tunnel will be kept
pushing ahead, hoping in a short time
to reach a series of veins that have
been prospected on the surface. and
which have shown to be rich in large
ore and values. The first of these
veins will be reached this year and cut