Willmar tribune., 1909-08-25

ground, including all the necessary
elements required in mining, mill
ing and smelling operations. Wood
is abundant and water plentiful.
The property also includes the only
favorable camp and smelter site in
the Copper Creek region. The to-
tai area owned by the company is
over 22u0 acres.
In what is known as the Upper
Group large amount of under
ground development has been made
in shafts, drifts, crosscuts and tun-
nels.
On the American Eagle group,
where operations are now centered,
is one of the largest surface show
ings of ore in the great copper belt
of the southwest. The ore out
crops for width of about sixty
feet, being a substantial grade of
carbonate and oxide ore. At a
depth of forty feet the first pros
pect tunnel was run, prosecuting
this ore body, showing thirty-two
feet of solid ore, the end of the
tunnel being better in values than
at the beginning.
Several other tunnels were driven
into the ore body, a large portion
of these workings being in solid
milling and smelling ore. The
body developed shows a vertical ex-
tent of 200 feet and a width of
about fifty feet.
After this singularly successful
development and realizing this to
be one of the greatest ore bodies
in the southwest, the management
laid out plans for development
work in keeping with the vast pos
sibilities of production indicated.
At distance of 100 feet on one
side Of the ore body a large work.
ing shaft was started. 1t was in
this shaft, at a depth of 200 feet,
that the high grade ore was recent
ly encountered. This shaft is be-
ing sunk rapidly and will be pros
ecuted until depth of at least 1000
feet has been reached, with levels
opening into ore bodies at intervals
of 100 feet. Fom the immense size
of the ore body developed in the
upper, middle. lower and first shaft
level, it is believed that at depth
of 500 feet this shaft will yield a
production Of from 500 to 1000 tons
a day.
Another important group owned
by this company is that of the lime
claims, embracing practically the
only lime belt of the Copper Greek
region. In this lime stone quar-
ry has been opened. It yields first.
class lime rock for burning lime
and for use as fux in the smelter
when the latter is erected. From
a contact between the lime and
quartzite is a ledge of excellent
iron ore, which is also suitable fo1
use in the smelter as a f1uxing ma.
terial. Among other groups of the
property are the Sycamore Flat
Cumberland, Bellevue and Upper
Group, each possessing some dis
tinct quality valuable to CONNER
cial mining.
The Copper Creek Mining com
pany has completed nearly two
miles of underground development
work, and the more importan
shafts have been substantially tim
bered. The company has erected
thirty-fve buildings, among which
besides those already named, are
bunk house, boarding house. black
smith shop, engine room and hois
house. A large stone store build
ing and a stone warehouse are ais
among the structures completed.
First-class wagon roads have beel
6 constructed to all parts of the pro
! perty and entirely across the noun
4 tain range, connecting with tn
public highway through Aravip
and Sulphur Springs valley on tn
east and with the San Pedro vale
on the west. These roads wer
!: built at cost of more than SAC, 90
and have entirely removed the onl
: serious obstacle to large and sue