Show TEllS OF BI BIG MINE IN GOLDEN PRINCE I I Manager Prince Zone Is Continuous Ore Body at Depth Wih With the crosscutting on the I level ot of the feet of material in beds I and fissures which he says caries carries avI av average erge values of 12 a ton Including one boy body ot of shipping ore and with yet another fissure to be encountered before the he crosscutting is completed completed George W Cox maager manager ot of the Golden PrInce Mining company is confident that he bs has what wU will prove one ot of the greatest mInes In Pioche although he believes that several others have vIr vIrtually virtually the same conditions underground on the sae same mineralized zone Mr Cox I is satisfied In fact that at depth wU will be found one continuous or ore body extendIng al all the wa way from the PrInce mine ot of the Prince Consolidated company to the Point mIne of the Pi Pioche Pioche Metals company compan His reason for this conclusion aside from the strong conditions found in the Golden Prince Is that the porphyry dike which is the source of the ore has been tace traced though through two claim lengths of the Pioche KIng group adjoining Golden Prince on the south and nd has been found as wel well wellin in properties on the north including the Monar the he Demijohn and the Point wih with ore conditions near the surface conclusions bearing out his Porphyry Key to Ore When I frt first entered the camp said Mr Cox yesterday I was Impressed by the part which the Yuba Tuba dike had unquestionably performed in the depo ot of the ore are bodies in the old por porton portion ton tion of at the camp It was plan plain that porphyry was the formation which was to the gIde guide in searching for new ore bodies and when I found the bIg dIke in the Prince zone I could not doubt that along that chanel channel would be found ore bodies as great a as those along the famous Yuba Tuba dike In putting down the Golden Price Prince vertical shaft we sk sank between the por porphyry and the ore But before the foot level had been reached It wa was found that a fault had pushed the dike west westward war ward On that level the porphyry was narrower than at the surface it having surae been elongated by the faulting On the level the dike is feet but ore hs has mae made In a porton portion of the dike From that point westward the crosscut has ben been continuously in n ore fissures and beds alternating The beds In place places rise ten feet from te the bot bott m of the much thicker they may maybe maybe be has not yet been demonstrated Five fissures have been cut thus far farNo farNo No 2 fissure cres carries five feet of ship ship plug ping or ore ad and the tho ore in the other fis fissures and the beds averages 12 a ton The sith sixth fissure should be tut with fifteen feet more ot of driving When that Is done we shall proceed with drift drifting ing on the ore and shall also sink to the level to prepare for and production Big Mines In One thing to be taken into conid consid consideration Is that al all ot of the mies mines on the Prince bel belt are in limestone and shale The big mines in the old camp on the opposite side of the rge range were fund fundin found in the quartzite whIch underlies the thelme lime and shale shale indications are there therefore toro fore that the mines in the new section of the tho camp wi will be een even geter greater than those In the old And I say t this rl real realIzing Izing the fat fact that te the old mines wit with theIr enormous production production were only gouged ner near the surface speaking The best of the ore are bodies lying below the tho water level where lyng work wa was stopped on account ot of the problem of treating the ores ot of rebel ious ions character having ten then been not riot left untouched solved solved was lef |