The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-05-21
Comet Property Shows
Good Prospect of
a Producer.
ENTERPRISE. JOSEPH
MINERAL DISTRICT
Doubtless Will Prove one
of Great Value to the
County With Sufii-
cient Work.

1t is usual for so-called "mln-
ing camp paper torelate with bold,
black headlines and continuously
big puffs" about the mineral of Its
locality. Such a paper, anywhere, OF
the very nature of it's subject mat
ter. can tell the truth, the whole
truth. and then some. Sometimes II
cells the truth and then some, be-
cause one authority Is as good as
another, when 1t comes to seeing
30 feet through rock into the grount
Such a paper can make the statemen
plausible that given ledge runs and
expands as it runs, 1000 feet down;
and it can not be proven wrong.
This paper is not mining camp
paper, to begin with. 1t would not
consciously misrepresent a solitary
1etail of its county's mineral possi-
bilities, If it were. When therefore,
1T seeks to give, as in this article,
an account of the mineral lying in
tn nearby hills, it seeks to give moth
ing but what is known to be obsery-
Aoie, concrete mineral fact. It does
not seek to mislead single eastern
Ior home investor, nor to predict
more for the mineral future than
.ne present mineral facts justify.
--.,g In Developing.
All mineral properties experience
a long Developing period. ALL mineral
belts or localities have to go through
a generation of prospecting, before
the development is sufficient to war
rant the investment of big capital.
But all real mineral belts are devel-
oped, sooner or later, simply because
all capital must have avenues for in
vestment, and because the world
must have mineral. That Is plain.
a. Taking the Calumet and Hecla
mine, of Calumet, Mich, as an ex-
ample. the prospector of that copper
district prospected and developed
prospects for years, before capital
g" ID be interested. Capital laugh
-s' at the prospec Or for about d
gem ration. Capital tt,G the pros
ps..Jr ,ha the latter had no min
.ral there i ut the prospector nursed
MS conviction deep in his troubled
soul. and worked away. The deep
er into tie ground he went the more
evidence he found with which to con.
vince capital. Until finally. after
tLe weary years had dragged out
'hcir length, and the weary prospec-
oof had dragged out the greater part
CT his life, capital was SHOWN"
Tf day the Calumet mine is about
a mile into the ground, with about
four or five miles OF underground
workings. Native copper is found in
such boulders that it can not be
blasted, but is cut out. And no one
today denies that there Is copper in
that district.
WaIIowa Has Mineral.
Wallowa county, and especially
the Joseph and Enterprise district,
has mineral. We know that it has
good mineral, and anybody can know
i. simply because good mineral is
taken out of the ground, and may be
seen. One group the Comet" hold
ings has some OF the finest sam
pies of gold, silver and copper ore
to be found in eastern Oregon.
The contact lies between granite
and lime. The samples assayed at
practically the surface give $40 in
gold to the ton, SO in silver and 50
In copper. The silver occurs in many
places in the ore in ruby" and pre-
sents a beautiful picture. The full
values in copper have not been. de-
termined. in that the deeper the con-
tact runs the better the copper ap-
pears to grow.
Ledge Nine Fd,t
The ledge in the Comet" runs
nine feed wide with an ore shoot
Of "A inches. At the very surface,
before more than face of the
ledge was exposed, the gold values
A