Show developing THE HERCULES blade tribune florence ariz W P dunham general manager of the hercules copper company of ray left for los angeles friday where he will spend two weeks with his family and then go to mexico to look after his large mining interests in that republic before leaving ray he directed supt bupt thomas to begin the work of sinking a three compartment shaft on the hercules ground this vertical shaft will be sunk 1000 feet as the bore holes on the ground one 1100 and one 1000 feet deep penetrated ore bodies at the depth named these bore hole went through three distinct ore blankets and the average grade of these ore bodies is 6 per cent but there are also strata of ore in them averaging as high as 20 per cent and levels from the three compartment shaft can be extended along these high grade strata and enough high grade ore be extracted to pay a profit over and above the cost of deve development work a fact that warrants the sinking of the three compartment shaft the hercules can now be properly classed as a high grade property and has a brilliant future before it |