Weekly journal-miner., 1915-04-21
IMMENSE VEIN OF
 RICH ORE UNCOVERED
(From Saturdays Daily.) (By William P. DeWolf)

| bearing upon future mlnlng opera
 t;ons in the Tom ReedGold Road
 district has been made in the lower
 workings of the famous Tom Reed
 mine. The discovery may more prop
 erly be termed a change in the char
 acter of the ore body, that has been
 undergoing development since the property was located in 1903, and
 which has yielded more than $5,0O0,- OC0 worth of gold-bea-ing ore since 1910.
 A fact of infinitely more importance than its classification in this dispatch is that it presents characteristics which practical mining men recognize as being conductive to vein and value permanency at great depth. Freed from the technical verbiage that falls so fuently from the tongue of the ex- pert and which conveys so little to the intelligence of the average indi- vidual who Is interested in mining, the conditions referred to are as follows:
 Depth of Discovery.
 The drift west from the winze sunk depth of 125 feet in the floor of the 950-foot level in the Tom Reed work ings has been extended in ore a dis tance of 100 feet and at this time is yet in ore. The vein material is breaking pay" across from 6 to 10 feet and is being sent direct to the mill from the mine. Stoping is to be- gin within short time.
 Where opened at depth of 1,O75 feet the ore body shows a marked change in formation to that obtaining on the levels above, and has entered what may be termed the zone of per manent values. That is to say, the Tom Reed mine is now in an area of where the mineral condi- tions are more strongly than ever be- fore indicative of vein and value per manency to the greatest depth at which it will be possible to mine the ore. In some respects these condi- | tions are analogous to those which | prevail in the zone of second enrich ment in the Portland and other of the Cripple Creek mines.
 Vein and Value.
 have been informed by s. s. Jones, of the Tom Reed mine and the man who has developed it to its present splendid stage of ore pro luction, that where opened at lepth of 1,O75 feet the vein carries no water, whereas above that point the inflow is so great as to necessitate constant pumping. In character and general appearance the ore is the same as on the other levels. Below, Is above, there is the same red oxide with its attendant values in gold; and below, as above, there is a dearth of ulphides.
 There is decided departure, hough, in the character of the rock ,f the footwall at this depth. The | ort of departure, in fact, that gua-- ntecs continuity of pay ore to a much greater depth. The condition 5 one in which the camp as whole 5 as vitally concerned as are the Tom Reed people.
 An interesting fact mentioned by IF. Jones is that the ore planes on r he lowest level incline to the south, [ rhereas above that point they incline 9 the north. $ The wall rock on the 1,075-foot | svel is probably an andesite of pre- a ambrian flow days. Them was the t ood old days" when the world was b oung and more or less given to at lcks of the collie and other internal E isturbances of a gaseous nature. turing one of these spasms she rup- lred an andesite intestine, so to ,eak, and thereby loosed flow of ein material hereabouts that has no z epth limitation short of the bowels the earth itself
 Strike of Vein. :, Standing at the collar of the Tom p eed shaft; which by the way, is the N en Harrison shaft, as it is being V Ink on the Ben Harrison claim of O e Tom Reed Company's estate, the rike of the ledge for which so much - being claimed in way of values at VI eat depth, and from which so much po' way of pay ore has been mined, is ~ rectly through the shaft recently T- arted on the Red Cloud claim of - c Tom Reed Company about $500 ct to the northwest, and thence ~ rough the Horseshoe Reed group
 the United Western Mines Com O> ny, distant about 6,5OO feet. Lying ~ tween the Tom Reed and the Unit VI
 Western estates is the mine re- 1 ntly opened by the United Eastern ople.
 These latter facts are mentioned as ing indicative of the value and de- ability of the mining country lying Su tbe northwest aud aiono thP strike L.