Mohave County miner., 1910-06-11
Inspiration To Be Third Big POrphyry.

lnSpTduOn To De thiro pig rOrpnfTY'
 George Gun, of the Gun-Thompson Co.,, reached New York this week, com ing in from Salt Lake. Talking about the details and improvements going on at the properties in which he is inter- ested he said that the changes for the better which were being witnessed at both the Inspiration and Mason Valley properties were even exceeding the sanguine expectations of those inter- ested in them.
 ''At the Inspiration in the Miami district" said Mir. Gum, i've have proven by drill holes an area of three quarters of mile long and one-quart- CT of a mile wide. The ore will aver age from 400 to l5O feet thick and l believe am safe in saying that it will average better than 25O feet thick. We are continuing to send drills through the additional portions of our property and from the development work undertaken, and the assays ob- tlined. I am satisfied that Inspiration will open up as the third or fourth big copper porphyry in the United States. Inspiration is growing so rapidly from the standpoint of tonnage that people do not realize the tremendous pro- portions which this mine is assuming but as soon as tonnage figures are an- nounced. it will surprise even those who are believers in the property
 "All our work for the next 20 years as far as handling tonnage is concerned will be from two tunnels, one of which is now over 1000 feet. This is the first so-called Dorphyry copper mine that will handle its ores by tunnel, the others using an open cut system or in every other instance being obliged to haul it to the surface through a shaft. A portion of our ground will alsJ be of the steam shovel variety. The ore will easily average per cent. copper as all of the recent holes which we are sinking are giving Us $50 feet
 
 fourth per cent. copper. In one or two instances we have had as high as and three-fourths per cent, though this is exceptional and beyond the average.
 At the Mason Valley we are satis- fled that our ore body will average 60 feet for depth of 200 feet and the ore will not be below 1 per cent. We have assayed as much as 40 feet of ore that will go as high as and one-half per cent, and one cannot find but few cop per mines at the moment which can show as high a grade tonnage of ore opened up where the ore body is as wide as this one.
 I've have concluded arrangements, as is already known, with the Nevada Douglas Copper Co.,, for 25O.O tons of ore and another property for 75, 900 tons of ore. In addition the tonnage we can obtain from other Nevada mines is bound to be simply measured by our facilities to handle it. The Salt Lake smelters are over 600 miles away, while the Needles plant is over 500 miles away. The question of trans portatiOn is entirely in our favor as in ducements can be offered these ship pers by reason of the tremendous shorter haul that will give us the ore in preference to any other plant.
 ''From the way people are coming at us for ore it does not appear that we will have much chance to handle | our own product with an SOO-ton fur | mace, and may have to enlarge it very i soon after we can start which should | be about July, 1911. Figuring it on handling 800 tons of custom ore per day at a cost of B per ton will net us an income of over 3OO,OOOS a year, which would mean a dividend of over l.iOS share per year, without count ing the profits from handling our own ores.
 ''The outlook is particularly satisfac- tory to me in regard to these two prop critics and it looks as if substantial earnings are in sight for both mines as soon as production is commenced.- New York Mining Age.