The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-07-24
NEVADA COPPER NINE
VISITED BY GOODRICH
JAvAN MINES COMPANY HAS A
WONDERFUL Deposits
FINANCED.

julius Goodrich returned last Mon
day after sojourn of about three
weeks in Twin Falls and other points
in Idaho's famed irrigation belt. But
with Mr.. Goodrich it was not case
of going back to the soil, nor Of seek
ing the peaceful pleasures of rural
life, nor was he led to believe that an
irrigated country was less dry" than
the Occur d'Alene district. The fact
Is that he went down south to have a
little visit with his friend. Harry
Mckinley, and incidentally to inspect
mining property just over the New
ada line in which Mr. Mckinley is in
terested. Mr.. Goodrich says he went
out to the property expecting to see
something good, and i'm this he was
not disappointed. In fact, 1t was SO
much better than he anticipated that
it is difficult to realize that it has been
lying there untouched for all these
years. 1t is an immense copper de-
post in a white lime formation, and
has been opened up for over 400 feet
by shaft and numerous open cuts,
showing the vein adjacent to a great
rorphyry dixie. 1t is situated in New
ada, about 16 miles south of the Idaho
line, in Kit Carson mining district
west of Contact. The nearest railroad
point is Rogerson, IDAHO 35 miles, with
which 1t is connected by a good desert
wagon road, the heaviest grade of
which is per cent for a distance of
about three-quarters of a mile.
Surface Work.
With the exception of a shaft, about
the only work on the property up to
date is several open cuts made to
show up the width of the vein and to
locate the porphyry dixie The shaft
is down so feet, sunk on the vein and
IS in ore all the way. From this shaft
a drift has been run about 40 feet in
ore, mostly bornite. Beginning up the
there is series of open cuts, all of
which show ore varying from II to 3S
feet wide. On the Opposite side of the
gulch a prospect shaft has been sunk
20 feet in ore On the dump is prob
ably half a carload of ore, carefully
sampled by disinterested parties which
assays 23 per cent copper, 81 in gold
and an ounce of silver .per unit of
copper These relative values, Mr..
Goodrich says, are characteristic of
the ore generally.
After Many Years.
The chief owner of the property Is
Blaine A. Hanks, a we'll known mining
engineer of Nevada His father 10
Gated it some 40 years ago. About 35
Swansea, Wales, hauling it to the
railroad with bull teams and shipping
it by way of San Francisco. The cost
of the shipment was about 500 per
ton, which was of course prohibitive,
so the elder Hanks proceeded to pat
emf the ground with the view to hold
ing 1t until it could be profitably
Worked. Since his death his son has
refused numerous offers to bond, his
desire being to retain the control and
develop the property himself.
A few years ago circumstances
brought about a close friendship be-
tween Mr.. Hanks and Harry McKin-
ley and in the course of which he told
of his Nevada mining property. Up
on visiting the property Mr.. Mckinley
was much interested and he induced
Mr. Hanks to organize a company for
its development, and which Mr. Nc
Kinley has been successful in financ-
ing. The company is the Javan Mines
capitalized with 1,00O,0 900
shares, 100000 of which are in the
treasury. The first block of 100000
shares offered was taken by wealthy
farmers and business men of Filler and
Twin Falls, which will enable the
to proceed with equppng
the property with machinery for de-
yelOpment