Show BI 81 STRIKE Fifteen S Feet of at Pine Fine Copper Ore En Encountered EnS Encountered countered in Long S Tuel Confirmation of a whaling big strike In Inthe Inthe the Moonlight copper property ten mies miles north or of Pocatello I Idaho aho through N M Eldredge and Ed Holz heimer who faced n a bUzzard blizzard and deep snows In a successful effort to reach the mine and learn what truth there was in ina ina a report brought In by a In lan dian lat last Sunday The strike was made In ina a tunnel beIng driven from the east side of the mountain to crosscut the forma ton tion and open the ledges at a depth of something hike 20 2000 feet The ore was reached at a distance of 15 1500 feet In the tunnel and from eight feet at the poin poInt of intersection the ore has widened to fifteen feet a few ds and the gade grade Is said to be beter better than anything encountered ir in the the on the west sl side of the hm This pr perty about three ye years rs ago shipped two Or three car cars of ore taken from the workings on the west side of the mountain where the outcropping was first discovered and where considerable work was done These cars showed n a total value from 1200 to 1500 per car netting the company af after r pa paying the freight and smelter charges from to each Theore The ore In these workings was more or le les tle vein show ing occasIonal hunches of very rich but again pinching down to a bare trace The management felt that the work worl done demonstrated that there was a true vein which would be tapped at low lower r depth and accordingly they crossed over the hi lull to the east side and started to crosscut for the veIn which they estimated ed would bo be met at a depth of nearly 20 2000 c t This ork lo luts been for nyer a year or more and Into lato 1 in the fall faU it was believed the vein would soon be encountered There Is vel very deep snow on the mount mountain ala ain and i it was not expected that an anyone one would enter or leave camp after the snows came so that no Information was as ex cx expected I of what was being done by tile the miners at work until spring |