The Kusko times., 1929-04-13

t. high-grade strike on the Pauper's Dream vein, had paid Larry and Jack a visit to look over their prospect : two weeks before. He had carefully : sampled the vein as exposed in the tunnel and had promised them his assay results.
 Nols had been to town and had just >e brought their mail up to the cabin Larry and Jack were puzzled over the blueprint which the cnginee sent . them It si1owed sketch map of their. tunnel with the assay values :. and vein. widths plotted at the poins along the tunel where the samples {. were cut from the vein.
 .Taat engineer didn't give us any the best of it by his sampling;" there was trace of anger in Jacks voice. eff these engineers had to develop these prospects from day to day I'm thinking they wouldn't be so cold blooded when it comes to cutting saumple. His figures show an aver age of SIS per ton for the vein along the entire length of the tunnel and an average of $46 since we struck the shoot f high-gradc. I'll bet he didn't get any more gold is-to his samples than he could help. Now look at hsi sample No. IT, which shows an assay of SS6-that is close to the point . where we got that high-grade speci- men that assayed better than $2,00O to the ton. How do you explain that ?"
 "Jack, you remember that the high grade specimen we cent in for assay wasn't much larger than a walnut. : You remember that we said at the time we would send it in, not as a sample, but just out of curiosity as to how high it would assay. I've reached the conclusion that prospect ors generally kid themselves by sending in picked specimens for assay. . When we start stoping we won't be breaking out specimens to send to the mill, but we will be breaking dwn the : entihre vein for mill feed. The en- gineer in cutting his samples was try ing to arrive at an average of the ore : that would go to the mill. He cut his samples from wall to wall just as we would stope it."
 
 'Yes, you talk grand, Larry, but do you remember when he was sampling near the raise, where there is two foot rib of granite sandwiched in the vein? When he started to moil across this rib of waste you started hopping around SC lively that thought you were going to hit him on the head with piece of drill steel. If ever I saw wild Irishman, you qualified :"
 Larry smiled ruefuliy. T was sore all right, for hated to see that waste getting into the sample. I don't sup pse though we would attempt to sort that rib of waste when we start min ing."'
 Lets grant for moment that the engineer got close average on what the vein carries. Now if we stopped this vein from end to end, our mill feed would average about SIS per ton, and on rock like that we would just about break even. If, nthe other hand, we stopped only the high-grade shoot, we would be getting $50 ore, which would net Us nice profit"
 "Yes but, Larry, we haven't much tonnage of the high-grade developed yet" Jack interposed, cautiously.
 If the high-grade stays with us until next season, Jack, we should get enough blocked Ut to warrant putting in mill. It looks like some hard work, partner, before we start ship ping any bullion. In the meantime we might steal a wrinkle from that engineer and sample our new work"