Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1909-03-17
BEGIN ORE GETTING AT
FANCY FINK PROPERTY


Ewart have completed the necessary
preliminary work, and are now taking
out ore from the Montgomery shaft
or the Albert Fink property.
This shaft has a vertical depth of
100 feet, but from the bottom there
il 60-foOt insline, making altogether
900 feet for the shaft incline. The
present operations are being conducted
on the 100 level, ore being taken out
from a drift which is being run west
ward.
1t is planned also to drift to the
east, this drift to be started probably
within ten days.
The west drift is now in a full face
of ore, the gangue being quartz, Sill
yer copper ore is well disseminated
through the quartz, with high values
occurring here and there. Suplee e.
Ewart will be able to arrive at a fair
average of ore this week, as five diff
ferent samples have been sent to the
Copper Queen reduction works for as
say. 1t is believed that no sorting
will be neeessary-that all of the ore
row being taken down will pay to ship.
To their agreeable surprise, Suplee
& Ewart have learned that some of
the ore carries good gold values. The
sample containing gold was sent to
the assayers without a request for gold
returns, the figures for silver and cop
per only being asked for. On the GER
tifcate returned there was a notation
to the effect that the sample carried
good gold values. Samples sent in
hereafter will therefore be accompanied
by request that test be made for
gold.
In this shaft ore occurs between
lime hanging wall and a foot wall of
porphyry. Mr.. Suplee has reason to
believe that the vein. which extends
almost due east and west, dips down
wards to the west. from the shaft, and
for tnis reason the west drift will be
the principal drift. Porphyry. intrud- |
ing through the lime, appears on the
surface about fifty feet west of the !
shaft. and there a contact is expected |
to be reached on continuing the pres
ent west drift from the Montgomery |
shaft. Farther west, only a short dis |
taree, there is an old shaft about IF
teen feet deep, whit an excellent show
ing and walls clearly defined This
would be an excellent place for a deep
working shaft, it is believed, and goes
far toward bearing Mr.. Suplee out in
his contention as to the merit of the
territory that is west of the shaft
along the vein.
The 45O-foot tunnel on the Scanland
is being continued to the north, and
good progress is being made. 1t will
he remembered that +. S. Douglas, of
Douglas. drove this tunnel to the por-
-
Recently it was decided to continue
this tunnel, and fifteen or twenty feet
of work has been done in it recently,
the tunnel now having a probable
length of 40 feet.
After driving in porphyry for ten
feet or so, quartz was encountered, and
when last heard from-a few days ago
the tunnel was still in quartz.
The porphyry and the quartz were
both mineralized, the latter more so
than the former. But, as no assays
have been resorted to, we are not able
tc say what the ore values contained
are. The ore carries copper sulphides
and gOodly percentage of iron, how
ever.
Later the force. which now consists
o. three men only, will be added to.
Thus the Scanland, with eacn addi-
tional foot of development work, con
tinues to improve in appearance, and
the known dimensions of the ore body
are gradually being increased. 1t was
only short time ago that the 17O-fOot
inclined shaft, 600 feet southwest of
tho tunnel and along the same contact, !
was cleaned out and re-timbered. a
little additional drifting was also done
lfterward. This work left the shaft
looking better than ever. ,
BEGIN MORE LAYING