The copper era., 1907-02-21

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the tank, as Haines has just received
a hoist and engine. The ore that has
already been taken out is of good
grade and has been increasing in
value with development. Butler
says that Haines has an ideal mining
and is raising vegetables of all kinds.
1t is the intention of Haines to plant
small orange grove in the valley
near the mine. 1t is said by orange
growers that the climate and the
ground are adaptable to orange grow
ing, but the only drawback has been
water.-Democrat.
A visit to the Bermondy mine by
the Paradise Record man last week
was sufficient to prove to him that
late developments are even more
promising than reports have indi-
Gated. There are about nine feet of
a full breast of ore in the tunnel, and
they were then not yet out of the
ore. This ore was encountered in the
the east drift from the north cross
cut. After crosscutting to the north
for 116 feet the management drop
ped back to about 80 feet and drove
to the east for 78 feet. Striking this
ore therefore at about $50 feet from
the portal in broken line. The
vertical depth is about 30 feet from
the surface. This ore contains cop
per, silver and lead. The values are
believed to be good, though no as
says have yet been had. In addition
to this work there is also a north
crosscut from the east drift AZ feet
in length making about 230 feet of
work. The impression is held by
some, that little it any, ore has been
taken out since the rich strike in
April. Such is not fact. Work has
been in ore, small ore veins, pockets,
ETC., large portion of the time; and
the ore is on the dump to show for it.
There seems to be at least 100 tons of
ore on the dump, and it is believed
that fifty or sixty tons of it will
average $50 to the ton. 1t is not to
be wondered at, therefore, that the
management has continued operations
at this point, at so shallow depth.
They were only following ore large
portion of the time. Later it is eX-
pected to run another tunnel lower
down and gain a vertical depth OF
$50 to 300 feet.
Considerable interest was mani
tested among mining men last week
when it became known that another
the Old Dominion mine, one which
will probably be the greatest ever
made in the district. The import
ance of the strike is not confined
wholly to the Old Dominion company,
as it will be equally important to the
entire district because it is expected
to demonstrate the old contention
that with depth sulphide ores in vast
quantities and carrying high copper
values are to be found in the mineral
belt of which the Old Dominion Is
the furthest developed property.
The night shift in No. 2 crosscut on
the fourteenth level of the Cid Do
minion mine, broke into sulphide vein
No. 1, encountered previously on the
thirteenth, which proved to contain
chalcocite, or glance, four feet thick,
running from l to IS per cent. copper,
averaging about 20 per cent. copper
and Is per cent. sulphur. After going
through vein No 1, two or three feet
of spar, fecked with pyrites, was cut
and the crosscut then again encoun-
tered ore six feet into another vein,
ore in vein No. 2 is of the same high
grade as vein No. 1, and it is esti-
mated that the entire thirteen feet,
including vein No. L, the horse of
spar and six feet of vein No. will
average u per cent. or better in
copper. This new strike is the same
ore shoot now opened 150 feet along
the. vein on the thirteenth level.
Vein No. 2 on the thirteenth level is
twenty-one feet wide and if it should
prove to be as large on the four
teenth level the strike will be the
most important eyer made in the
Globe district. 1t is an important
strike not only because of the proba-
BILE great size of the ore body, but
also for the reason that the percent
age of copper in the ore is about
twice what it is in the same ore
shoot on the thirteenth level. This
disproves the theory of DR.. Ransom,
the government geologist, who ex-
pressed the opinion in-his report on
the Globe district that the ore at
depth in the Old Dominion mine
would be low grade sulphide, becom-
ing of lower rather than of higher
grade with depth.-Silver Belt.
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