Show MINING ENGINEER DISCUSSES IRON BLOSSOM J Fewson Smith Jr the mining engi engineer fleer neer r is indignant over o r the manner in which his hie name is III being h ua d In connection connection connection tion with developments at the Iron Woe IBos s 8 sam m In and for the purpose of rebuking those who misquote him and for 1 the purpose of giving the property U ft t self seK a square shake he asks to be quoted quoted ed ad on the proposition propoRtion as follows follos I am sum being quoted by some om of the brokers as making adverse criticisms of developing in the Iron Bios Blos Blossom som II m property at and wish to eon con contradict on at once the statements attributed to me Through the courtesy of the theman management man et ent of this thin property I 1 have lave been i able to keep track of or the conditions at atthe atthe atthe I the mine amine and knowing these the e I am par particularly particularly anxious to be either quoted cor cur correctly correctlY r or 01 not at all This much te is due both to the mine maine and to me To those who understand the tM situation conditions at atthe attile atthe the tile mine both on the surface and under underground underground underground ground are such as to warrant arrant the moat t sanguine e predictions while on the other hand baRd there te IS not one feature which can an anbe be successfully urged as a detriment to the property Today the mine is shipping daily dallY WIt tons tone of ore and has hal the ore and the equipment to double the output If IC called caned upon The Time lode is now opened for tor nearly neatly feet southerly Into the th property and aDd aDdlor for lor this a entire distance the deposit is still sun as bread brOad as deep dp and aAd aa a ran rn to the running nm foot as all It has already proved itself to be In 0 feet to the north The Vit Tt fae of the south drift from the main mam shaft is at present In the curing casing of the ore body but the last Jaet shots today ted broke through the roof Into the clear carbonate ores agaIn agam That the lode will win continue without Interruption through the Iron Blossom property to Its southerly limit none noes but those thos who step atop In where angels angel fear to tread will win qu ton There has been faulting of or the beds b tIlI across the Iron Blossom BIO property but ut this faulting occurred prior to the deposition of 01 the ore and has hits caused no iso tien of the tM parallel aRnel ore 0 systems to the west of or the th Colorado lode and there therefore therefore fore can have no effect upon the Colo Cob Colorato nub rato The hf he faulting ha has however er had Its tt Af ef Affect f feet upon the bedding In 11 i which the ore occurs causing the th limestone to wing swing j toward the time west t from It its original south routh i r erly erh course bringing the Colorado lode parallel again with the westerly ore systems System systems tem as they extend southerly from the fault This gives gis to the Iron Blossom feet of the lode Jod yet untouched And Ami th to say MY nothing of c the inde in independent dependent de parallel vein developed in the theN theNo N No o 1 I shaft which has h been explored for several hundred feet along strike and which b b contains eon good value through throughout out In the fact fa fac l of such conditions I 1 feel that it is Just Ju t to make a statement of the facts in io order enter that my m position n may be understood I |