| Show developments at lunin luning by JAMUS JAMES F OBRIEN luning nev dec 8 the development of the big vein on the congress copper corn com 11 banys property at luning liming which is now under way promises to prove much more important than the high grade deposits from which many shipments lits have been made in the past the ven proper when crosscut was found to be twenty six feet in width F but the soft of the hanging wall t was so heavily mineralized it was deemed wise to continue the crosscut and discover s how aar far the extended the f crosscut was extended sixty feet in the and for the entire distance assays essays show values of between 11 and 2 per cent copper the twenty six feet of vein filling averages 3 per cent which would in make ake the entire eighty six feet a pay product for a local mill owing to the fact that the second unit un it of the thompson smelter did not blow in as expected on account of insufficient coke supply the luning idaho company was unable to ship this week but work is proceeding with the usual good results they continue to take out shipping ore from the conte in the halin hahn tunnel and also are driving ahead on the Stock stockham liam tunnel which is now in in feet on the abe lincoln claim of the R B todd mining company from which a shipment men was recently made sinking is now in progress and the shaft is in the usual grade of ore the pilot company is sending out a large tonnage under the new and favo favorable rAle con tract recently made with the western ore purchasing company which permits the shipping of a lower grade of ore and the management expects soon to reach the maximum amount allowed two ditre nitre more leases have been let on the anderson group of the pilot company A carload of ore that will average 8 per cent copper went out from the wedge copper property during the week it came from the siri sir shaft in the no 1 tunnel work on the no 2 tunnel is going ahead steadily a contract for an additional feet having just been let rumor has it that good progress is being made on the proposed merger of the wedge and surrounding properties but bothin nothing 0 definite is given out shipments of copper ore running in the neighborhood of 9 per cent are going out steadily from the st patrick mine of the kirchen mines corporation the picture on the lower level which has attracted so much attention shows little change from last report the ore showing the same beautiful colors and running high in the red metal E t C watson who sold the Never sweat group to the congress copper company and whose faith in dunings Lun ings greatness has never wavered has returned from an overland auto trip which took him as far as his old home in new york state in addition to other property he thinks highly of mr watson has a fine lease on the anderson group of the pilot company |
