Show LOCAL MINING MEN investigating RICH COPPER SILVER DEPOSIT IN B C for the burp purpose ose of examining studying and prospecting what is reputed to be an extensive and unusually rich deposit of copper silver ore somewhere along the line dividing alaska from british columbia not remote from water transportation a party headed by L B mccornick and jasper A mccaskell mining engineer of salt lake lef left t for seattle and the new eldorado on the instant A few weeks previously according to report a complete diamond drill prospecting outfit and a crew to handle it was shipped up into the copper region mentioned by mr mccornick and his associates who comprise it is said a coterie of wealthy new york mining men inen and operators who have commissioned mr mccornick to make a thorough investigation of the proposition if it takes all summer and report if this investigation verifies and substantiates the previous representations of owners a or corporation will be organized to take the properties over and equip them for extensive development and operation according to the story that has leaked out since the departure of mccornick and mccaskell the property that has aroused the interest of those to whom it has been presented involves what is stated to be a tremendous deposit of copper ore which is reputed to sample around 2070 copper and 30 to 40 oz silver per ton it is claimed this deposit is in blanket form and that it is chiefly to determine whether such is the case or not that the diamond drill will be brought into play that the salt lakers who are to make the investigation and report contemplate doing the work thoroughly is evidenced in the fact that an automobile was shipped from here to seattle for transfer to the field so that the heads of the expedition could better get around and cover the country in which they expect to spend the season also it is reported that this reputed rich copper silver deposit has attracted attention previously in this country but that the opinion after cursory investigation was that the proposition was too big and too rich as claimed by its discoverers to ever stand the light of real investigation I however it is declared the new investigators consider the claims of the owners worthy of earnest consideration and that it will not be turned down by giving it the once over that its merits or lack of merit it to be thoroughly determined by the new yorkers who hold options upon the lands ads embraced in the discovery |