Show ILIA AU A COPPER HAS RICH ORE Face Sample From Its Ameri American American can Tunnel Goes High in inGold inGold Gold and Silver H C Parker consulting engineer for forthe forthe the Alta AHa Copper company compan a local corpo corporation corporation ration recently formed to operate an ex exceptionally fine group of ot claims on Lit Little Little tle Lost river in Idaho came down from camp yesterday more than han ver pleased i with the manner In which the ground is I responding to development work The tun tunnel tunnel nel on the American claim In the group Is now In hi a distance of ot feet with the contractors making two feet teet a day Face samples of the ore taken before he left the property have been assayed a saed and found to carry 10 ounces gold and 1746 ounces silver per ton That kind of stuff Is too good to throw over the dump said Mr Parker and sacks are being shipped to the mine in order that the ore may be saved and shipped to market At the depth beneath the surface that the tunnel now gives we get but little copper Water Vater level is all of oC 00 feet deeper In the vein and It Itis ItIs is evident that most of the copper has leached down About fifty tift feet ahead of or the present face tace of or the tunnel there is a big blowout of or ore and when that point in the tunnel I look for fora a remarkably tine fine body of at pay ore ore that will stand the wagon haul and rail railroad raILroad road transportation to the smelters and still leave a big profit This ledge can be followed for or a n long distance through our property and it ranges from seven to twelve feet In width If we had nothing but tills one ledge lede I should still main maintain tain that we had the making of or one of the biggest mines In Idaho but on the opposite side of ot the canyon we have an another another other vein eln which gives Ives promise of develop developing ing into something just as Important as ashe the he American ledge led e If f not more so We Ve have not done much on this second vein as yet but after atter we have pot ot work well under way ay on the American vein and have shown that it carries a mine we shall shaH tackle the other Every Ever time I go to the mine I think more of it It Is sure to make a winner |