Show DULUTH OPERATOR ON OPHIR t Ophir Tunnel Man Over Conditions 4 GREAT SHOWING 0 I WALKED FOR FEET INTO SOLID ORE With a vil m born of in inthe the business SchelIa a m t operator and s man of DuLith has iut completed Ut an exam examination or of the Ophir Tunnel property and aiu workings at Mr came out to size up th prop altion because lit be had already put money into it and was inclined to go deeper into own pocket and at the same time timo give he friend and am s his views on the merIts or the Having been heen interested in the HIP theIron iron and copper opper mining business all his life with interests In Minnesota ani ArIzona Mr Ir judgment knowledge of formation ore and the ties or of mining enterprises lend weight to his utterance For these reasons his opinion of the camp of Ophir and mines will e or of exceeding Interest not only to who are backing the Ophir tunnel enterprise but to the min mm world In general generalI I have spent the better part of a aw w week ek at campo raid Faid Mr Schell yester yesterday da day previous his departure for home and I am pleased to say that any doubts which I 1 might previously have entertained the value of the Ophir tunnel enterprise have been en entirely entirely by m my Investigations t I leave firm n the conviction that the company has the key which Is bound to unlock the he gateway and reveal the wealth ot of the ledges of thIs district a could no other und a Sizes Up Buckhorn Through th the courtesy of Manager S Sr 1 r Levy and ther of the BUCK Buckhorn horn lorn company I w was permitted to make no a thorough inspection ot of the workings and note the richness and size of the VarIous veins pow ow being mined in that property This Inspection together with Ith a stud study ot or the surface and kI Of nf the district has left lefto no o doubt in my mind that the 50 0 acres of ground belonging to the Ophir Tun pel company not have been better located The course of the tunnel which is already In h distance of about feet is Ideal It is follow followIng Ing the main of the district and vIll re it has been extended 2000 of the feet it must go to tor r reach ach the limits of the ter territory cut or intercept not less than six a Four or five of these fissures fIs ures are now being explored and mIned In the bo to the wet west of us They all run into Tunnel runnel ground and with the great additIonal depth that will there be we should find tre tremendously ar are ore bodies o of ore As Assurance Assurance in this respect Is made doubly sure because the tunnel Is being driven in the tho cont t and it Is a matter of history In every distrIct where con contacts are cut at Intervals b by Burs that the greatest bodies of ore ocCur at or near these hese junctures The fir t fissure lh the Fi Fiske ke should be struck in the tunnel within the next feet basing calculations on the dip o oth of th the vein as In old upper work workings workIngs ings from which 8 great deal of oC mone money was taken co to reportS report in the thc thearl early arl days After leaving this fissure the tunnels is headed directly for the ledgEs which run out of the Buckhorn T first of these should be berf rf reached ached before tHe te mark In Inthe inthe the tunnel is roOSted posted and from there on veina of strength and richness will be cut with wit i increasing frequency There is no of this The proposition proposition tion is made as plain as day in the sour separate tU tunnel workings of the Buckhorn which is 15 now a bonanza mine Walked Feet Through Ore OreIn OreIn In going through that property with Manager L Levy y I began In the first or 11 upper tunnel l Front From that we passed l down to the others and took In the various ledges and the workings in them as we went The amount of ore exposed was really astounding On the lower tUl tunnel lel level leel I walked for over over feet straightaway through a body ot of galena ore which was exposed in toP bottom bottoni and sides of f the drift with a fun full f e of It In front and nothing to indicate an anywhere where what its lImits might Lt L It was a 8 sight good or sore eyes and When hen I stopped to consider that the same ame ledge would be reached by ht he Ophir tunnel without a doubt I no had any Possibilities of Camp Weighed Mr lIr Schell into every feature of oC the camps possibilities during his visit and rea reached ed the conclusion that Ith such Spi mines as the Buck and Senator W V A Clarks Ophir Hill Bill bonanza skirting the boundary lines of the Ophir Tunnel ground where a mill Is i dan daily rounding away where here electric power and light is enjoyed and with a pros prospect prospect ot of a branch line from the San Pedro being built hullt into the camp from the main line during the coming He sea son Eon he was to draw the on elusion that was one of the best camps in the to tie to toI uI I believe sal sail he at parting that I is de destined Un d to become became one of the I greatest t producing camps In your state and without desiring to detract a par tide from the value alue ol of other I 1 am convinced at the Ophir Tunnel company will greeter greater bodies of oC ore thAn halt half of oC the great mines of oC the can boast within the next few j earB ars The opening ot of these bodies vill commence In H a few Cew months and will be repeated at intervals or Of ever every few hundred fet feet until nUl the limits of the r feet Ceet long and anda a at t a depth or of to t feet has been reached utah stocks in Boston i iJames James A Pollock Co bankers and broker ye received over their private wire from Paine Webber ebber Co Coone Coone one of them thelt Boston corre pond mU t the c market comment and aud rf record Oro ot of sales saies of oC stocks on the Boston market with range and clo Q quotations Boston it D Dec c 31 The market has had hada i ia a con considerable rise for the last two w k I and this break of oC yesterday and today seema ems to be lar ely for by an I evening up of contracts be 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