Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-06-23

Incredulous smiles are provoked
when the statement is made that the
values in an ore body can be figured
as closely as a bank balance.
Derisive smiles were accorded
Morse when he first called the atten-
ton of people to his electrical tele-
graph.
Scornful smiles will be given the
man who makes a statement Of abso-
lutte fact, but with which the hearer
does not happen to be acquainted.
All OF which only goes to show that
in most people there is a tendency
to Incredibly; but facts are stubborn
things, and home men, just like facts,
are stubborn; some are even worse.
they are stupid, because they will de-
NY or dispute the incontestable.
In one of our advertisements, en-
titled Arithmetic, we undertook to
demonstrate how closely the values In
several of our large ore bodies could
be figured, and we repeat the demon
stration today, but combining ourselves
to only two of the nine lode claims
owned by our company.
These two are known as the Whip
perwiIl and Cornucopia. The former
is 1,50O feet in length, and the latter
500. One is an extension of the other,
but for all practical purposes, it is.
simply one continuous claim 1000 feet.
long. 3
This 1000 feet takes in just that.
much of an exceedingly strong vein,
which out crops on the, surface, and
averages about six feet in width. This
vein can be traced many thousands
of feet both east and west Of our To-
cation, showing conclusively that It Is,
true fissure, even If we consider
nothing but the surface indications.
This property is located on the
ridge Of the gulch in which our other
properties are situated The grade Of
this ridge is less than one foot in 20,
so that for our purposes 1t may be re-
garded as substantially level.
Our crosscut tunnel was started at
point down in the gulch, and after
being driven LOO feet it intersected
this vein at depth of 4sO feet under
the surface. Subsequently Wine or
shaft was sunk an additional SO feet,
and in the meantime an upraise was
made through the ore body to the
surface.
Levels, or tunnels, were driven on
the course Of the vein, both east and
west, from the main tunnel intersec--
tion, with the result that the ore body
was opened up on three sides, and
found to be of the same relatively uni
form width and value, thus rendering
easy the computation of the number
OF cubic feet In the vein.
This simple little question In Arith-
metic, which cannot be dignified by
the appelIation of Problem, is thus ex-
pressed: 2,000x530x6 equals $500, 900.
Dividing this by 10. which is the mum
Der OF cubic fet Of our ore required
to make ton, we find that the total
4 weight OF this ore body is 4s9 ,23l tons.
Now it becomes necessary to get at
the value Of that ore. We have never
figured better than $40 per ton, al
though we have known from the be-
ginning that 1t was from 5 to s times
that much. but, accepting the $40
value, there is no escape from what
the figures tell you, viz: 1892, 80.
And this is in one property, opened to
a depth OF $50 feet only!
But. let us get little closer to the
facts, because they are. interesting
\ from more than one standpoint. This
ore body was opened at this depth Id
the early nintfes by the then holding
company, an English syndicate. 1t
was hoped the ore would be desirable
for free milling purposes, but much to
the disappointment Of the English
men, 1t was discovered that not over
30 per cent OF the values could be re
covered by the stamp mill, Of amalga-
nation process. which at that time
was the only one Of consequence.
55s Maps Of the underground workings
show that about $4,000 tons Of this
ore was mined, and therefore presum-
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