Show TAKEN TO ROAST OF THUNDER f An article appearing g- g gIn In the he Engl Engineer Engineer- Ing ng and Mining Journal by S S. S H. H w Brockunier who is now visiting this ity has aroused the ire of several r local mining engineers who have hae studied conditions at Thunder mountain moun moun- tain taft and who declare that his estimate of ce the country is unsupported by facts As s far as the Engineering and Mining Journal is concerned the they point out outi f i fl Mat t. t the publication declared for years r hat the Anaconda mine now flow the chief of the Amalgamated Copper corn com i asset It is following following follow follow- com I pany was not a mine and ing the he old line in giving premature publication to statements discrediting Thunder mountain Salt Lake and andy I y Utah wants to see the new El Dorado developed and those who have faith in It are In accord with the Boise Statesman's criticism of Mr Brockunier's Brocku- Brocku Tiler's nier's article The Statesman's Statesman s editor editorIal editorial edito- edito r rial nat follows V. V r In In the last issue of the Engineering E k and Mining Journal there appears a aT ar r T communication respecting Thunder mountain from some one signing himi himself him- him t- t i Jel self S S. S I H. H Brockunier and giving his The article is f address address' as 31 Mackay Ida designed to to give the district a black the animus of the person writ writ- ee eve but I. I ng It is so clear that It will defeat Its i fown W own purpose This man narrates that fhe arrived at Thunder mountain on f r April of this year He Be does not nota a lith say ar how long he remained there but he dates his communication at Mackay on l' l May If It he c came me out from Thun- Thun J Ji vf 4 i d deV derr r mountain in time to write a letter ft May he must have from t-from from Mackay M kay on ir fer ferhad had bad a balloon with which to make the 1 tr trip 2 Moreover the Intern internal l evidences of Iff the he letter show that he did not devote of the many hours to an examination country even if he ever examined a foot of the ground He sends a picture of the mine to of the covered tramway the mill which looks about as much v like the subject as it looks like ke the i of the Central l Pacific Pa But B Blet let Ilet us examine the article itself he found the snow Th The Tie man Ea says sas s 's T t two feet deep at the Holcomb cabin Is i Then he climbed up tha hilt hill and found the snow four feet deep on the level J and nd eight feet deep where it had dI drift drift- ft- ft lei d d. d He continues We were thus thu I J. J unable to see any of the rock excepting where test pits had be sunk or where t 1 had been conduct conduct- I V the Dewey operation ed We found the Dewey mine to be a V. V j tunnel in the side of a little butte or or- cone of porphyry The tunnel is Perhaps Per Per- perhaps per per- haps feet below the summit of the c cone ne and has been driven about the same distance into the butte Continuing he says We made madet t tests ts ourselves from samples taken from froIt- within the tunnel some pieces s coming from the working breast We also made tests of rock taken from various various various va va- va- va rious pits and In but a a. few could we find a showing of gold He does not say that he got the samples from the mine The The- fact is he hp did not go KO Into the mine No visitors have been admitted without a written order and no such order was ever Issued is issued issued Is- Is sued to a a. man beating bearing any such name The man who thus sends forth the statement that the rock does not cary carry gold has no knowledge whatever of that of ot which he writes Where the pits were that he sam- sam t. t pled he does not say whether say whether they w were wre re location holes hole sunk on snow location boa loca tion fion or holes sunk on porphyry de do- posits This man to announce to the world that the porphyry is an overflow that it does not go down and that the boom will come to an early death It is astounding to hear judgment passed on such a district by a man who could not have been there for more than a few hours and that at a time when everything was covered four feet deep with snow But if anything were lacking to demonstrate his animus it appears in a closing thrust he makes He had no opportunity to see the great dykes lykes and assumed that all the gold- gold bearing was there in the immediate vicinity of the Dewey mine Hence he he makes this comment The Dewey group occupies the cone or apex and the vein is a blanket for for- mation Do they not own the ore as asfar asfar far as it extends over other claims If such claims lie He within the belt embraced embraced embraced em em- braced by the Dewey Deway end lines when extended If this is so the company owns most of the porphyry 1 t The Statesman m will submit that th-at a aman man who prof professes ses to be a mining man and who yet indulges In such an assumption assumption as as- as that must have far more assurance than the wildest promoter I that h has s ever operated in any country I. I There is no prospector who does not know that such an assumption is absurd absurd absurd ab ab- ab- ab surd and yet this man who professes JO to to be an en n expert qualified to pass upon I a great undeveloped camp seriously advances it as a further reason why men should not go so into the district |