The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-30
NORTH LAKE WORTHY
OF confidence YET
Michigan Paper Believes That
Recent Drill Work Not
Entire Failure.

Local stockholders OF the North Lake
company will find considerable consola-
ton in tho recent article published in
Cay & Sturgls's Copper a consolation
which is timely In view of the pronounced
drop in the price OF the stock in keep
ing with the general slumpy tendency OF
coppers at this time This article fol-
lows In full
North Lake No diamond drill hole,
which some time ago passed through No.
l Adventure lode and found II well min
eralized. and showing good commercial
values, has passed through No. 2 Ad-
venture lode at a point where IL showed
only slight copper values. The drill is
continuing downward and will next en-
counter No 5 Adventure lode.
Adventure. in drilling through these
three lodes perforated each of them In
one or another OF its holes at points that
did not show copper, while several OF
lode elsewhere. Therefore TN fact that
North Lake did not see much copper In
No . lode at the point where No. 4
drill passed through 1t is not condsm-
natory. The fact that it cut the lode
at the expected place and found a litde
copper in It is evidence enough of pos
sihlities to give encouragement.
Tho regularity and precision with
which these three Adventure lodes nave
been cut In the North Lake diamond
drill holes No. and No. I. as well as IN
all of the Adventure lodes; is remark
able Together with the three copper
bearing amygdaloid lodes thus disclosed
at numerous points In this drilling, cam
palgn. arc the two associated conglomer-
positive Identification, and these have
always been found In place. almost en-
actly the correct distance respectively
from the three lodes,
II is in this indentihcation OF the amyg
daloid beds that the conglomerate beds
are so valuable because while many
amyGdaloids are exactly alike and there
fore cannot be Identified alone, each con-
glomerate generally has some distinctive
mark Of Identification. either in tho
mineral composition. the size OF the peb-
bes the texture of the cemcnting ma :
terial. or other popularity. that makes IL
fairly easy TO recognize and identify;
then by taking these congomerates as
the base lines, the respective amygda-
loids Of interest Chat is. those which
have been found to carry copper at one
place or another). may be measured or
and their identity established quite cor
rectly even though they may change in
appearance and width. and at times be
without copper
n may be explained here again that
II an amygdaloid lode is found 10 be
we'll charged with commercial copper at
a number OF points, either In diamond
drilling or In regular mining operations,
then according TO the principles OF Lake
Superior exploratory and mining practice
search Is directed specifically Tor TINS
lode I'm its extension one way or the oth-
er across adjacent acreage. on the as
sumption that IL found and sufficiently
developed II will yield payable copper
ground.
And it Is not regarded as disappolnt-
ment (except possibly temporarily If at
a given point a diamond drill core from
such n lode should show only trace o.
copper because, as is so well known.
there are numberless places In the best
lodes OF the district where diamond drIll
holes could be driven through and not
particle OF copper would be found. The
object. therefore, I'm the main; is TO 10,
cnte a strong, persistent, well-organiZed
copper bearing amyGdaloid lode. and
then follow up It's extension across the
territory involved with the object even
tually OF exploring 1t With shafts ans,