The border vidette., 1907-02-09

vein at this point shows gold and silver values of about $9.00 per ton. High grade copper ore is expected to be encountered in this shaft when water level is reached. This shaft will be sunk to water level, probably 15O feet and then a drift run east across the ore body.
 When the development work, as now outlined by Manager Conard, is completed. many million tons of ore will be placed in sight and ready for extra ction, which on ac- count of the splendid facilities, cheapness of labor, etc., can be done at low cost, and great profit to the company.
 The following extracts from re- ports made on the property by Professor Walter Harvey Weed, H. Gordon Glore, the emetallurgist, and F F. Cranz, the mining engineer, will be interesting reading to many of our readers who are financially interested in the company:
 Regal ding the property of the Sonora Copper Company, Professor Walter Harvey Weed, of the United States Geological Surrey, in his report says:
 "There are four we'll defined veins upon the property, all par allel, running about north and south with the ridges and dipping west at an angle of about 75 degrees Two of these veins are of extra ordinary size and persistence, be ing traceable for a mile or more with continuous outcrop;the others are in part covered by debris from above. Their structure shows clearly that they are true Assure veins.
 Two other veins lie between these veins, and in addition the intervening ground shows mineral, and is probably traversed by less conspicuous, but possibly equally rich veins"
 Up to the time Prof Weed visit ed the property, very little, if any, work had been done, and the recent wonderful discoveries of large ore bodies, proves that he had his minds eye on the future. when he said: II hope that the property may turn out as good as it's present indications promise"
 Mir. F. f. Cranz, the we'll known mining engineer, who, by-the-way, is acknowledged one of the most com petent and reliable authorities on mining in the country, in his repo't on the property, says:
 "There is nothing which came to my notice upon which to found the slightest doubt of the permanence of these veins. They are all they and permanence.
 ''I passed along the base of the lower of the two big seins for distance of more than two miles, and I estimated it to be an average of thirty feet thick for this distance.
 The vein recalls, through it's similarity, the "Chivatera" vein in the Cananea The surface was an almost exact duplicate, the adjoin ing country rock the same, and no more appearance of copper in the croppings than on the vein in question; and yet at depth of 200 feet they had matter of twelve feet of ore. and at 36O feet they had over forty feet of payable ore in cross-cut. Ifully believe this might be fully duplicated in the lower of the two big veins, and l also believe that the upper vein will make even wider ore bodies than the lower vein, with depth. My belief for this is on account of the dip of the vein. It dips westerly, and dips into a zone of ground between the two veins which is good mineral ground and shows in many places on the surface.
 There is on this property, every indication that development will put large bodies of profitable ore in sight and available for extraction.
 II have never seen better Op portunity to open up property | cheaper than is here presented.
 "The situation of the property is | ideal.
 "Has wonderful promise for be- coming one of the big properties of the country in ore production and in permanence."
 In conclusion, Mir. Cranz said: T recommend the property as a mining venture. l feel fully satisfied that the work out lined will put this property in the rank of prominence, and if carried on under proper management, the mine will be ready for reduction