Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1912-04-06
PIONEERS OVER
COME OBSTACLES
At HAzELTON,B.C.

Dick Wells, who will be remem-
bered by many of the Salt Lake
mining men, says the Tribune, writes
from Hazelton, B. c., that mining
in that section is so expensive that
when ore is found the discoverer is
entitled to all of the profits that
can be obtained Powder is $32 per
hundred pounds; hay is 500 per
ton; oats, s nc per pound; bread, 25
cents per loaf; ranch eggs, three for
a quarter: steel, 80 cents a pound;
blacksmith coal, SOS ton; and
other articles in proportion. Mr..
Wells writes: Talking of prices
on the desert and Death Valley
mining, this has any of the pioneer
days beat to FRAGILE and it sim
! ply shows that we have the ore
and the goods to back up our con-
tention, for the cost of supplies
would never be imagined unless we
had the products to substantiate. the
same.
When r. A. Cowan, the son of
John F. Cowan, came in, he mush-
ed through eighty-five miles and
paid 25 cents pound for baggage
freighted at the same time, show
1 ing the faith we place in this coun-
try and the chances we all take,
while the man that waits for oppor-
tunity for nothing lives in his hap
lpy home and the easy cushion chair
in his Office. We contend with
snow, rain and all weather nature
SO deems fit for the chance to
wrest from the ground the wealth
we are all entitled to-
Local people are interested in the
district around Hazelton because OF
the recent acquisition of the Rocher
de Boule Copper company by John
f. Cowan and associates. Develop
ment at the property has proceeded
continuously for some time. The
most recent disclosure in the mine
| is the development of body OF
ore fifty feet deep, 200 feet long
and averaging five feet wide, car
rying rs per cent copper. This IL
confirmed by Mr.. Wells in his com
munication.
There are three parallel veins II
the Rocher de Boule, with north
erly and southerly strike identical
ly the same in each vein The dill
of the upper and lower of tn,
middle lead is 35 degrees.
The leads run on their strik,
! with the mountain and on one sid
thereof and they dip into and to
wards the center of the noun
tain.
The veins are assures lying in
country rock of granite-diyide an
the out-croppings of two of tn
leads can be found for over 500
feet. On account of heavy surfac
wall the outcroppings of the lowe
lead have not been located for NOR
than 1000 feet.
The vein formation and minera
filling have probably been the re
lsult of ancient faults which hav
!. lopened up parallel fractures int
n which mineral-bearing solution
e from below have come up an
e deposited their mineral contents.
d The upper lead varies in widt
f between four and eight feet and ha
s ben opened up by four cuts, 4givin
9 twenty feet of depth and by on
i short crosscut tunnel giving fort
feet of depth
l. The ore in this vein is compose
o of chalcopyrite, bornite and re
n oxide. The veins on the Roche
e de Boule property are said to /
& the largest yet developed in Il
Is district.
" No. vein has been tapped by
:. crosscut tunnel the past summt
at a depth of sixty feet and
this depth shows five feet of soil
s copper ore, averaging 1910 per Gel
copper. This vein has been stril
$. ped on the surface for distan,
It of 1000 feet. No. vein is pa
n, allel vein to No. 1, and shows G
Iy the surface about three feet mike
,e galena and gray copper. with quar-
m samples, averaging 800 per to
~ mo work except surface strippiI
x has been done on this. No.
e vein, parallel vein to No. 1, al
about 500 feet from it. with No.