Show OHIO COPPER CUTS VEIN DEEP Mine Is N w Down to the Mascotte Tunnel 1400 1 Feet From the Surface Tho Tue most Important disclosure in the history of the Ohio Copper mines at was made Saturday when the fI foot quartzite lode was tapped in the crosscut from the raise above the Mascotte tunnel level that was started some few weeks ago for the purpose of making the first avenue through which to mine from the tunnel level A sample tample of or the rock was sent In fn to Manager r Colin Cohn McIntosh Before lie he could see Just what it looked like liko It was necessary to wash samples that were afterwards assayed and found to contain per cent copper copperI I 1 know the th rock is better than that explained Mr McIntosh yesterday be because because because cause In eliminating the fines and wash washing washIng washing ing the chunks for inspection considerable of the clean particles was lost As It Is it shows that the rock on the tunnel level leel Is just as good as It Is Ison Ison ison on the the deepest workings from the surface In the mine I have no doubt that the average will be found better than It Is above as the monster lode Is opened but we shall have no to reg ister If it never neer shows anything better than this sample aay assay certificate Indi Indicates Indicates cates The significance of the showing rests In the fact that we now know that the great lode lying between the two fis us fissures the Alls AUs Well Veil on the hanging banging wall side and tho the What That hat Cheer on the foot wall side Is uniformly mineralized for a depth of 1400 feet on the dip and 1000 feet vertically We Va have never doubted for an Instant that such would be the case and now we know It absolutely If means that the Ohio Cop per company Is now practically certain of tons of ore that will average close to 2 per cent copper with a little silver and a little gold available for most economical mining Every pound of this ora are will b be broken and moved moed by b gravity to the tho Mascotte tunnel level and from there be delivered to the mill at a cost of ISa a u ton In this connection It Is Interesting to torote torote torote rote that it would take the Ohio Copper new flew milling plant twenty years to work up the amount of ore thus made available without counting a pound that Is sure to be developed de loped outside of the present proven area of the domain It means also as shown by b calculations made by James Tames MacFar lane the president of or the company com pan and a prominent mining engineer r that the com corn company company pany any can by working eighteen tons of ore are Into one of concentrates conc and by ef a saving of 75 w per cent lent of values lilues net on each ton Ion of o crude ore are or 2333 2533 on each ton of concentrates on ona ona ona a loc copper market His calculations were based on ore carrying an average of 1606 per cent lent copper 05 ounces silver slIver and 00 ounces gold per ton figures that are arc sure to be found too low In other words wards the tho company with its present mill equip ment meat will be able to earn In clean money better than a month or not far from 3 a year ear Giving the mine a fair shake not an engineers reckoning the Ohio Copper company compan ought to produce net during the next twenty years from rota the ore ole now proven up in Its property |