Show MINING ALMOST PURE COPPER nevada douglas company has wealth untold on the foot level the last issue of the mining review contained a descriptive and illustrated article on the holdings of the nevada douglas copper mining company whose property is located in yerington district lyon county nevada the article in quest question lon was prompted by the fact that the company after several years of development and equipment had reached a stage where it could begin regular ore shipments to the new mason valley smelter at thompson forty one miles distant and the writer attempted to give some adequate idea of the companas comp anys holdings although judging from late ad vices from the mine estimates of the value of ore deposits uncovered in the workings of this property were really ultra conserva tive as no extended mention was made of the possibility of uncovering bodies of al most moot pure copper metal a possibility that has become a fact since the publication of the article only two weeks ago as advices advises have been received that a strike on the level has caused a sensation throughout the district the times of yerington in giving publicity to this great strike says that the yerington mining district is proving to be the greatest in the western country is being more fully demonstrated everyday As depth is attained the ore bodies are developing into enormous tonnage and the values are proving to be so much higher grade than anticipated that the most optimistic are now wild with conjecture j the deepest workings in the district do not much exceed feet but to this depth it has been demonstrated that our mines contain the greatest bodies of high grade copper ore known the first of this week there was encountered in the great nevada douglas property on the foot level the greatest deposit of native coper so far opened up in the district it is really a sensational development the ore being geraly pure metal and so compact that it is almost impossible to drill it great chunks of 98 per cent pure copper weighing from a few pounds up to a quarter of a ton are being taken out at present it is not known how extensive this body is but they are in it for several feet with a drift and the metal is on both sides of them and in the face when it is understood that the mine produced and still is producing ore of this character but not quite as high grade on the level above it is not hard for anyone to figure out what an extensive proposition this new strike is in a line due south of the point where this big body of native copper was encountered a drift sixty two feet long runs into a body of ore running from 6 to 17 per cent copper this ore is a sulphide sprinkled with native copper also on the foot level feet south of the main incline working shaft forty two feet of 20 per cent ore has been cut at the bottom of the incline shaft fet below the surface in cutting a station another big body of ore has been encountered which runs about 17 per cent in the red metal it is believed that the point where the 62 foot drift is being run will be connected with the new strike of 98 per cent ore made this week these recent developments bear out the statements heretofore made that the ne vada douglas is making a whale of a mine there has been no exaggeration in the statements as to tonnage and valuation but it has been hard to make many mining men believe that there is anything so big in this district the recent strike and the development of the past few months means more to the district than one would first imagine it has been proven that the nevada douglas is a rich estate above the water level but it has been feared by some expert copper men that below the water level the values in the ore might fade away and the ore run to iron the late development has knocked this theory in the head and the mine is proving bigger and richer below the water level than above in fact the nevada douglas is the biggest thing in the shape of a copper mine in the whole western country today since the rich strike the company has been flooded with applications for leases as in the workings above the foot level there is a great amount of the malachite ore that made the property famous as a jewelry shop years ago and on which leasers leaders can make good money some ol of this character of ore formerly sold as high as 3 per pound the development of the large bodies of ore on the lower levels and the extraction of ore is undoubtedly going to keep the company busy so it is quite likely that number of chlo riders will vill be given a chance at the jewelry shop section of the mine the company is to be congratulated on the able manner in which this property has been brought to the producing stage and every stockholder is to be congratulated I 1 on having a piece of stock that will in a short time begin to pay nice dividends and continue to do so for the next fifty years |