The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
FURTHER DRILLING
 TO TEST ITS EXTENT
May Prove Of Tremen- dous Value And Inn
 portance To District
NEW VEIN LOCATED
 BELOW COAL SEAMS
Necessary Money Will Be Ap- propriated To Make Thor
 ough Probe Of New Field

The discovery of a new red ore field, situated between the Big and Little Warrior rivers, in Walker and Jefferson coun. ties, is believed by officials of the Pratt Consolidated Coal company to be imminent. Dia- mond driIIers have brought out an ore core z feet 3 inches thick. During the progress of the drill oil and gas were both encountered, which were disre- garded to follow through the first intention of the company, which was to touch the ore measures.
 George B. Mccormack and Erskine Ramsay jointly announced the find Fri. day to an Age Herald reporter and while they did not give any opinion as to the extent of the field, yet the i'm precision was conveyed that the two vet eran mineral experts believe they are on the verge of find which will be oi tremendous importance and value to the Birminshasn district.
 The company owns IA. 900 acres oi land between the two rivers bowling over into adjoining counties aside from the individual holdings of the member1 of the company and associated comps nies. The statement was made that ths field would be either proved or dis proved thoroughly and sufficient money for that purpose will be authorized. MT Mccormack, who did most of the talk. ing. said that the company had bought a drilling outfit, and that experienced drillers would be on the work within a short time to carry on a most thor ough investigation.
 Orc Of High Quality
 He said that the core of ore already taken ont. which was over feet thick was of very high quality. The job now ia to see how far the ore extends and whether the thickness as indicated by the first core increases or decreases The opiuion of those in touch with the work is that the field win prove to be a real rival of Red Mountain, which has been looked upon for a long timS as one of the most valuable fields of ort in this country.
 'sThe most important feature of thii ore. if 1t proves what we expect, is thu physical situation" said Mir. McCor mack and in that Mir. Ramsay nodded
 hA wssrr "a low the coal, and is also on sufficient railroads. Transportation problems ar' already solved before we start. OuI plans call for a complete investigation Our progress so far has encouraged ui tremendously. First we sank puncf drill and struck oil and gas. That maJ be worth something and again it may not. However, we pushed on througl after substituting a diamond drill fol the punch, and have here sample corr which measures feet 3 inches in thick ness and is very high in quality.
 Sink Another Drill
 Encouraged by the success already secured we plan to sink another dia mond drill at a different point. w have agreed to furnish whatever moneI is required to bring this ore into thii district or disprove it's being there fl paying quantities. It is well knowr that ore les below the coal strata ana we know that ore is there to q certain proportion. It is therefore our purposi to determine how much may be found I would be slow to say that the War rior field would ever rival Red Noun tain. However, will say that if VI find ore there in sufficient quantitiei to justify development, as believe WI will, then we have found something o tremendous value and importance to thi district"
 Mir. Mccormack said the drill woult be near Quinton on the Frisco railroad near the Walker and Jefferson count! line and that such other investigation would be made as necessary to test ou the value and importance of the de