| Show VISITORS SEE ORE BODIES OF COLUMBUS CON Charles Charl Stevens the mining engineer Roy Ro Bemis and Alex Al Jacobson Jacoh ol were weN visitors at the Columbus Consolidated Thursday Thursa the party returning from amp yesterday Discussing the looks loks of things at the mine yesterday after afternoon at ter Stevens Steens said saidI noon non Mr Ir I 1 had bad been ben reading and aOI hearing a good deal del about abut th th the way tray a the Columbus Consolidated looked Joke and I 1 was glad slad of the chance afforded me to visit the mine because I 1 had a notion noton that the picture had hd been b n somewhat overdrawn but such is not the case The first thing that tended tende to change my mind was the thelong thelong thelong long string of or teams that we wc had to pass between Sandy and Tanners flat flatin ft flatin in going to the th mine minI When a l person is ia compelled to turn out and give glye the I Irod road rod to thirty or teams toms most mot motor of or which consist of outfits outfit within a few miles mils and all al of them hauling ore what misgiving lie he may Ua possess posses as to whether the property is producing according ac to report or not notis notis i is gradually settled in favor faor of the statement read red and heard That was w the way it was ws with me mo meThe moThe meThe The was as a a surprise that thal IS ia the boat beet bet way a to express it it I 1 think The I new nw ore body b on the west was as first encountered In a fissure that I Iwas was followed follwe into the contact between the white and black blk lIne lime As the con contact contac contact I tact tac was wa approached the ore widened out and made in In a great shoot shot following I along al ng the te contact conta both ways from the fissure In these directions it I has now been ben opened for sixty feet fet while it has hasben been ben raised ris in for eighty feet and for j i live five f or six lx x mine sets of timbers wide i And nowhere is there anything to in indicate indicate I when the limits of or the shoot will wi willbe J be b reached rh It I is one of or the finest i I bodies boies of or ore I ever saw hat ht is called call the walls wails aUs or casing is 18 a amass amass mass maps of hard har oxidized ore that aver averages averages j ages In value alu just about the same as does dees doe the wonderful mass of sulphide I concentrated con material that constitutes constitute the filling and which is just about abut as I soft ft and easy to handle as us would b bo t so much concentrates from a milling plant From Fro all al appearances this shoot of ore I will wi produce a a fortune above the 40 foot fot level leel below the tunnel tunnel The new ne fissure recently struck in inthe Inte Inthe the te east est drift on the Columbus tunnel tovel luvel I vel is now D going ahead In about four feet fet of or nice nl milling ort ort with a I small smal str streak ak k of on each side An Another Another Another other fifty ft feet fet it I to Is 1 figured will 1 reach rech the contact when hen the ore is expected to make out just as a it has been doing dol dolen en on the 40 level we wt west t and I 1 believe belee It will 1 Nothing is 11 being done right now ItOn 0 In the east drift on the tO leVel leel be becu cu e of th th the large flow of water and nothing will wi be done until the new sta station staton tion ton pump is received and Installed As we came down the canyon canon and drove out for the railroad we learned lere that teams were engaged in hauling ore to the sampler and that an average of oC better than eighty tons tens t ns a aday ada aday day da was waR being delivered By B the first of or next net month the marketing of this ore ought to place the company com pan in a fine financial position while the seasons op operations orations ertons ought to eclipse all al past records by b long odds The Columbus now looks I like a great mine |
