The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-12-12
COPPER KING REPORT
SHOWS BIG PROGRESS
MADE BY COMPANY
MINERAL BEARING PORTION OF
VEIN IS BELIEVED TO
HAVE BEEN LOCATED.
Since Starting the Lower Workings
the Company Has Driven 6015 Feet
Of Tunnel and Has Expended All
Told 500, 1850.

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Stockholders in the Copper Knf
Mining and Smelling company have
been advised of the progress made ii
the past six months and the plans ant
prospects for the future in a letter
sent out from the companys office ir
/ Mullan under date of December 5. The
letter follows:
Since the date Of our last letter to
the stockholders Of the company, dat
ed June /, 1912, a great deal of inn
portant development work has been
accomplished at the Copper King pro-
perty on the lower tunnel level We
have had the surface and underground
workings resurveyed and the result is
assurance that the lower tunnel is on
/ the same vein in which the ore bodies
els ana developments on this lower
level have practically proven that the
tunnel has cut the vein where it has
been disturbed by q faulting system,
which has split the vein into several
sections. Drifting beyond the faulting
both east and west has 50 far proven
that the several sections of the vein
unite on both sides of the main drift
and continue as one vein. In the east
drift the vein has proven practically
barren of mineral after passing the
point of intersection with the faulting
At this point quite a body of milling
one was developed, on which we start
ed both a winze and a raise. The
Wine proved mpracticable, as we en-
countered more water than we could
handle with our present equipment.
The raise has been extended up 100
feet and has shown continuous
streak of high grade material In the
bedding planes of the formation north
Of the vein. but not in commercial
quantities. Assay returns on picked
samples show As per cent lead, 10 per
cent copper and as high as 100 ounces
silver per ton, but the ore streak ha'
SO far shown no signs of becoming
wider than about II inches and does
not show the water and iron and clear
cut flssure vein characteristic of the
upper workings, where the ore bodie;
occur on that level,
In the west drift this dry aud tigh'
condition of the vein and surroundinr
formation has changed with recent de-
yelopment work and we are encourag-
ed to believe that we have at last To-
Gated the mineral bearing portion o.
the vein With the date of the new
in the west end. we TEN
abandoned work in the raise
awaiting further developments in the |
west drift Here we drove a crosscui |
south across the faulting and cut into |
4 vein of ore and iron very similar in |
character to the upper workings. This |
vein did not show in the main cross
eut except where it was so disturbed
by the faulting as to all but lose its
IDENTITY. In the first crosscut west this
'ein developed Is inches wide Of good
Milling ore mixed in wide vein of
luartz accompanied by considerable
ron and water and rock formations
which compare very favorably with
he conditions found in the upper
workings. We are now engaged ir
irving n second crosscut in the west
nd which will cut this same vein 200
Get west of the first crosscut After
ve have cut entirely through the vein
We intend drifting west, following the
'est ore streak. The vein improves
teadily as we drift west and we be-
eve that the main ore shoot has dip
ed in that direction from the upper
svels.
That the Copper King property is
l one of the main ore bearing belts y
t the Occur dAlene district is more !
ham ever evidenced by the rich ore I
iscoveries just made on the National |
round. which adjoius the Copper
ing, The National tunnel parallels
le Copper King tunnel about 500 feet
'wer and 700 to 1000 feet to the cast, Y
| THIS tunnel the National has opened (
large body OF copper sulphide ore of !,
value. very similar to the :,
oh ore bodies of the Snowstorm mine >,
Irthcr cast This ore is in the ReVett
iartzte beds which pass through the :,
Upper King ground. There seems to :,
; no doubt that it is on the same ore
me as the Snowstorm. and that this
cat ore bearing strata passes
rough this particular belt occupied 6'
I the Copper King. National, Mis- Ii
ala, Independence, Lucky Calumet, W
lowshoe and Snowstorm properties. Al
he National Is al least two miles west D;
the Snowstorm and the discovery Of oi
is large body Of ,npfides IN the Ma To
lnal Is proof that the ore bearing de-