Show PROGRESS IN BIG GIANT MINE boise ida statesman in the big giant mine eleven miles from town a development of the most important in character is now taking place the ninth crosscut cross cut on the west lead a body of ore of an entirely new character is being opened this crosscut has been driven ninety feet for the last twenty feet it has been in a friable ore much oxidized that yields readily to the pick and can be taken down at trifling cost abst As the crosscut has been advanced in this ore the usual sampling has been continued the first face sample after entering this ore returned 2631 the next the next the next and the last these large returns seemed so impossible that new samples were taken with correspondingly high returns this ore does not show much free gold and some investigation has been made to determine in what form the gold is carried in this manner it has been found that the values are in what appears to be a gray sulphide this crosscut is 1100 feet west of the tunnel the last two are each feet long and it is supposed the ninth will be approximately as long though it is believed the end of the ore shoot which has been opened for 1200 feet will soon be reached this belief arises from examinations on the surface where this shoot can be traced easily to a point about over this work now being driven feet below there a break occurs and another shoot makes its appearance in the droppings crop pings a little farther to the west this shoot where it is developed on the west level is of great width for several hundred feet in several of the crosscuts cross cuts it is from 80 to feet wide and in the last two as stated it is feet in width this ore is one great solid body running about 6 a ton those familiar with the property have long t regarded it as a phenomenon and this latest development adds interest to it if the low grade ore can be handled at a reasonable profit per ton there seems no reason why one of the great gold plants of the country should not eventually be established there while should there prove to be a large body of this richer ore the property would become sensational 0 E jackson the manager states the small prospecting mill by means of which it is proposed to determine the proper method of treatment will be ready to run by the or of next month |