Hyder Alaska miner., 1919-10-24
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property was then immediately bond ed for New York interests by H. R. Plate, and work commenced the en- suing winter. A tunnel, No. 1 was started at an elevation of 2,100 feet on the h4gh grade vein in good ore, and anothe. tunnel, No. 2 at an eleva- tion of 1850 feet on the middle low grade vein, also in good ore. No. cut the ore shoot dIagonally for over 30 feet, the values being good. The tun- ne was extended about 200 feet be- yond the ore shoot into the country r0cc and crosscut of 30 feet to the left flom the face was also in country rock. Work was then stopped in this tunnel. No. 1 tunnel was also driven d.agonally across the ore shoot, which Gi adva ally left the tunnel on the right hand side at point about 80 feet in. The tunnel was continued almost straight ahead-following slip for 2 considerable distance-for a farther ITO feet total of 250 feet, without picking up the ore again. A crosscut was also driven to the right for about l2 feet, about half of it being in vein filling, but lean. This tunnel was then abandoned A crosscut was then driven northerly from a gulch some zoo feet south of tunnel. After being driven 50 feet without getting ore, this too, was abandoned.
 A crosscut tunnel, No. was now hn Q 450 feet below No. 2 and driven about 300 feet before the vein was encount- cred. This proved to have a width Of we'll over leo feet, but was poorly mineraliZed A drift of 40 feet along side small diorite dyke was run in which some ore was just showing up when the New York syndicate threw up their bond and quit the camp, after operations extending over nearly IS months at a cost exceeding $60,0O0.
 In the summer of 1916, few months after H. R. Plate had left, R. K. Neill of Spokane was induced by Pat Daily who had been foreman for both Bush and Plate and still believed it would make a mine-to look oyer the prop erty The examination and sampling proving satisfactory, MT. Neil bonded it the following winter for $1OO,O00 beginning work in the Spring. His first work was done in No. l tunnel at the point where the high grade left it to find out what happened to the ore, with the intention of following it if it continued A few shifts suf- feed to show the vein was really paralleling the tunnel. and at no point in the whole 250 feet of Plates work was it more than feet away, while the face of the tunnel where work was stopped was actually in the vein.
 As the vein here is almost barren values $150-and closely resembles the wall rock in which he had drifted for the last 160 feet, no doubt MT. Plate failed to realize that he was in the vein. Had he, before deserting this tunnel, driven 2 feet to the right he would have been in ore, while feet ahead would have reached high grade ore.
 This is an outstanding example of a great mine being missed by a very small margin. It is just such hazards and great rewards that gives mining the fascination no other industry pos ses.
 When the first work showed beyond a doubt the real direction of the ore body, nothing more was done there. A crosscut was started about 60 feet farther in and reached the ore in 6 feet. Plates 12-foot crosscut was ex- tended about 30 feet. After driving each of these crosscuts into good ore for nearly 40 feet, without reaching the other wall, Neil decided to start crosscut from the face where Plate had quit, and also to drive ahead further 600 feet to get under the last of the series of open cuts which eX- poses the ore shoot on the surface and shows it to have width of from 100 to 15O feet. This crosscut, No. 3 showed good milling ore the first round; at 15 feet high-grade came in and stayed the full length of cut. It was driven 82 feet without reaching the hanging-wall, cut on the surface directly above shows fully 40 feet of good ore yet to be cut. For some dis tance the full width gave values of several hundred dollars ton in gold and silver, while the average for the entire 82 feet is better than $55.
 The face of the main tunnel was swung little to the right and driven ahead. In feet, ore running over s125 a ton showed up on the right hand side; at 10 feet there was full face of ore, showing considerable natives and ruby silve: which gave values of $153 a ton. This tunnel hae since been driven about $50 it. farther and with the exception of about 30 feet, when passing through some al most barren ground the full width of tunnel has been in high-grade ore