Show WESTERN NEVADA HAS LARGE MINE Extent of Proven Ore Bodies Evidently Not Realized by Public That the Western Vestern Nevada Copper CopIer com corn company company pany has a mine the extent of at which is little understood by the public Is real realized realIzed realIzed when It is learned as shown In a recent report upon the property that in its acres of or mineral ground the tho com coin company company pany has approximately a mile mUe and a hal halt half haltof of underground workings tunnels drifts crosscuts and raises the greater portion of which is ore are The upper tunnel is BOO feet fe t long tong ant and no feet deep at its face It has opened an ore are body feet long averaging 20 feet In width which shows average cop coppel pep pr contents of 3 per cent The ore are 1 I Is carbonate and sulphide In No 2 tunnel which is feet ver vertically vertically below the upper tunnel has been opened to about the same extent an ore are body whoso whose average copper contents I is between 4 and 5 per cent This body as aa nearly as can be determined d is the down downward downward downward ward extension of tho the ore are found In th the upper tunnel it Is all sulphide In addition to the solid ore the lime lim limestone stone on the east is heavily mineralized for a distance of 15 75 feet but it Is not a at that depth of commercial value From tho the lower tunnel level a two compartment vertical shaft has been sunk to the depth of feet with a level a at each feet the bottom level giving a vertical depth of feet below the sur surface surface surface face outcrop Ore Body Wider Below The ore are body has ha been encountered on the first end and second levels below the tun tunnel tunnel tunnel nel by crosscuts from the shaft On the first level from the shaft the ore are was crosscut for more than feet and at tho time the report was made had been drifted upon for feet on both walls with daily dally assays showing from 1 to 15 la laper per cent copper On the second level ro feet below the tunnel the ore has been out cut and Is being drifted upon with the usual good values shown Work has been prosecuted on the third level from the tha shaft with indica Indications Indications that the ore should be encountered at any time Purchase of ot property development equipment etc represents to date dato an ex expenditure expenditure expenditure of upwards of Tile The company has no indebtedness and has shares of stock In Its treasury The property lies north of ot tho the Mason valley on the same limestone as ae that in which the ore bodies or of Mason Valley are found Western Nevada ore are bodies are of ot the same general character cha ter and qualIty qualIty quality Ity as aa a those of Mason Valley afley Between Western Nevada and Mason Valley Is the property of the Malachite Copper company |