The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-08-06

viii renew the hope that producing
mine may be possibility of the not
distant future, the only salvation for
district that has been 50 often, and
seemingly unnecessarily black-eyed
The Copper World Extension is on
the top of Palmer mountain, only about
two miles from Loomis as the crow
lil$, and is in the midst of copper
zCne, the existence of which was dis
covered in the early working of the
Copper World, claims adjoining to the
west. A perpendicular shaft has been
sunk to the 800 foot level, and pros
pecting drifts run at two or three lev
els. The shaft did not follow down on
the ore, but, as there was considerable
dip to the cropping ledge, it was eX
pected that a straight shaft would in.
tersect the ore. At the 200-ioot level
an immense body of copper sulphide
ore, as solid as an anvil, was struck
while prosecuting and cut through.
For reasons only known to the manag-
er in charge drifts were run for some
distance along side this ledge, and oc-
casionally the ledge was cross cut. Not
understanding the principles of mining
plicable, for to layman it would have
appeared wiser and more business-like
to drift directly on the ledge, as the
ore extracted would never lose its
value on the dump, and eventually the
ore must be taken out anyhow. But
that is another story. Cross. cuts at in
trivals proved this ledge to be from
TWELVE to EIGHTEEN feet thick. The
writer has measured where it was
EIGHTEEN feet wide, and has met many
miners, and visitors to the mine who
inspected the strike, who reported the
ledge to he from TWELVE to TWENTY
TWO feet in width. q. b. Harphan was
the party having charge of the remov-
al of the car load of ore shipped to the
smelter. He states that a portion was
knocked down from the big ledge, but
owing to the difficulty in hoisting the
balance of the car load was taken from
the dump, and he did not select the
ore. At the point where he took out
the ore at the 200-foot level the ledge
was SEVENTEEN feet wide. The evi-
dent high value under smelter treat
ment of ore from such vast deposit
has put nhw life in the Copper World
Extension company, and no doubt Mr..
Snow states facts when he says it is the
.5.ention of the company to endeavor
10 make the Copper Word Extension
one of the largest mines in the west.
Aud if success follows, as is the devout
hope of every resident OF the district
where the property is located mining
will become an important industry in
this county
1t will be noticed that pains have
been taken to emphasize the known
width of the Copper World Extension
| ledge There is and object in it. Re
Gently an expert was sent in to report
ON mining property at Loomis. 1t
| would be unfair and unjust to say he
was sent in to make an adverse report.
yet in many quarters that feeling eX
lists. although undoubtedly groundless.
| But there is little room for doubt that
he came in bitterly prejudiced against
the country, for his attitude, his aloof-
ness and his report demonstrated this.
OF course such experts know more than
the Almighty, they are expected to
and willing to assume such superiority
of knowledge. and hence did not re-
Guire any information from common
clay. He proceeded to turn down the
property he was sent in to examine,
but not satisfied to coniinine his de-
nunciation to the property he was paid
| to expert (9, proceeded to throw the
| iron into the whole country. In his
report he went out of his way to state
| that there might be an average of four
feet of ore in the Copper World EX-
tension, damning it wit h his reluctant
admission. This individual may be the
best expert in the United States, all
that he reported regarding the proper
ty he condemned may be true, yet his
statement regarding the Copper World
Extension is so at variance with the
facts that little eredence can be placed
in the whole report 10y those acquaint-
ed with the county.