The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-10-14
TUoLUMNE.
Now Shipping at Rate of About 1000
Tons Of Ore a Month.

Bptte. Mont.-The Tuolumne Cope
company has Just completed the worl
of proving the apex of the vein brough
into dispute by the suit OF the Nortl
Butte Mining company and Il has es
tablishcd. as far as the matter physi
Cally is concerned. that the vein apeNe.
IN the compromise strip and in a west
erly direction i'm the Tuolumne claim.
by series of raises and an inclinel
shaft the Tuolumne company has
proved the vein from the 1.40O-foOt
level 10 the surface. In starting the
work on inclined shaft was sunk al
point "A short distance east OF the
main shaft, and a uine to the north,
whore the vein is clearly distinguish
able on the surface. and In the inclined
shaft the vein was followed TO a depth
OF about 1876 feet A raise was then
started from the 4O0-foot level and
carried upward To Join the inclined
shaft. This raise was made without
any preliminary survey. merely fol-
lowing the vein In its upward course.
The inclined shaft and the raise from
the 400 clearly discloses the vein the
entire distance. II not only discloses
the vein. but IL shows good mineral
ization the entire distance.
4 winze is now being sunk from a
point close to the bottom OF the raise,
which viii open into the drift which
was run by the North Butte company
from the Jessie claim Of the latter at
n depth of 400 feet This Wine is now
down about s. feet, and at a depth of
So feet " h. believed that IL will open
into the Jessie drift The winze win
be completed about the middle Of Oc-
tobor.
To further prove the vein. raises
have been made from the 400, 1000,
1000 and GOO-foot levels, showing the
undisutpable continuity of the vein !
from the lower workings TO the sur
face.
ON the 400 foot level the Tuolumne
company has run crosscut north. in
tersecting a vein which is a split from |
the Tuolumne vein i'm dispute. and |
which viii apex i'm the Jessie ground. 1
The latter is the vein which the North |
Butte company claims is the North /
Butte lead into the main vein from
which the Tuolumne has been ex-
tracing its great ore values. This
vein which has just been intersected,
has a dip which viii cause it to con-
verse with the Tuolumne vein between
the 400 and 500-foot levels. As the
TUoumne lead, which has just been
proved by shafts and raises, is the
prior location, made by the original
owners Of the Tuolumne ground. and
according to all mining law is in the
ownership of the Tuo-
lumnc company.
Some months ago the Tuolumne
company ran a drift about 20 feet be-
meath the surface, along the vein in
dispute, from one end Of the property
10 the other, distance Of 951 feet.
proving beyond all doubt the fact that
II apcxcs partly i'm the compromise
strip ana PARTLY in the Tuolumne claim
i'm the latter for a distance Of about
4l2 feet
one Of the points depended upon by
the North Rutte company, I'm its suit
against the Tuolumne is that the split
from the main vein, with apex in the
Jessie claim. Is the true lead to the
main vein. The work which the Tuo-
lumne company has just completed
disprovcs this theory completely and
strengthens the apex theory I'm the
Tuolumne contention. The North Butte
depends also on its purchase
of a quit-claim deed TO three
oighths interest I'm the compromise |
strip, apparently approaching the fact
that the apex If the vein is in that
ground. The Tuolumne company does
not fear this. however, as it is i'm pos
session Of evidence to show that il
was the intention OF Patrick Meagher
the original owner TO transfer all Of his
interest in the property to Ed Hickey,
who later sold # to tho Tuolumne COM
pany.
The Tuolumne company practically
is ready TO go to trial with the case
and is anxious for the hearing
Tho Tuolumne company Is now
az the rate Of about 4 900 tons
of ore month, aud its mining opera
tons have not for moment been in
terfered with by the action of the
North Butte company in bringing suit.