The Alaska prospector., 1908-05-07
KNIGHTS ISLAND MINE LOOKS GOOD
Development Work on Big Copper Property Has Es-
 tabIished Its Value.

On exhibition in front of the Seat tie hotel is piece of copper ore weighing about 400 pounds which was brought from the property of the Knights Island Mining and Develop ment Company, located at Louis bay, Knights Island. The company has eleven distinct veins in sight and the vein from which the sample was taken shows hanging wall of six feet of heavily impregnated mineral vein matter. The foot wall has not been reached.
 Within the six feet on this vein there is two foot strip of high grade ore, which, although no assay has been made. it is believed by the men in charge will show about 25 per cent copper and possibly from S1 to s ton in gold. The showing from which this ore was taken was inspected by Charles Crawford of 1 Valdez and Seymore Crandall of La i touche, both of them being highly i'm 1 pressed.
 This vein dips toward the east, and strikes southeast and northwest. Con- siderable orc has been stuffed off the l vein and is now on the rockslide, many of the boulders weighing two tons and more.
 Another one of the viens has been opened up for q distance of about thirty feet below the the croppings by q cross-cut tunnel which runs twelve feet through greensboro, after which the foot wall of the vein was struck. The vein shows four feet of heavily natllralized mineral vein mat ter at croppings. The foot wall was followed in a northerly direction for twcnty-siX feet with tunnel five by seven feet and on the face of this tunnel there is two feet of solid ore.
 Ore Assays We'll
 Neither ore or mineral showings are noticeable on the croppings above the face of this tunnel but winZe sunk twenty feet below the floor of the tunnel shows eight feet of solid ore. Samples of this ore are in possession of w. F. Beeks, United States district clerk at Valdez, who is interested in the property.
 Another vein shows two feet of solid ore which was assayed by three different firms, Messers King, Borger- dus and Laduc, the average showing being $10.GS per cent copper and $3. .75 gold to each ton. This ore is found in cppidote.
 A vein mentioned by H. A. Keller, the mining specialist is his report on the property, made last summer, has, since the report, had ten feet more work done on it and shows up much better. It is believed that the ore will run at least per cent cop per. Another vein which has been pronounced mineral zone is heavily impregnated with chalcopyrite and zinc. It has been uncovered for some distance eight feet in width and traced about 100 feet under the muck and grass. This vein strikes south east and northwest and assays made or the ore snow 32 per cent zinc and ' per cent copper.
 Still another vein shows eight feet of solid ore, the vein striking north and south and the values being in copper, silver and gold, the total average value being about $4. .50 ton! Along side this vein is another of about twenty-five feet of shale or slate which is impregnated with chal- copyrite and iron pyrites, butno work has been done on it as it is intended to cross-cut all the veins with the main tunnel. At a distance of POO feet the majority of the veins men, toned have been traced for distance of from one and half to two miles in southerly direction.
 Heavy Ore Schutes