| Show BRITISH COLUMBIA MINING NEWS written for the review by the mines exchange limited nelson B C nelson mining division A number of fine samples of ore from the hunter V group near amir have attracted considerable attention at nelson the past week they were taken from a number of places across a lead nineteen feet wide which has been traced for some come distance all the samples are plentifully be sprinkled with coarse flakes of native silver A company in which several local men are interested is being formed to handle the proposition the fog horn mine located in the amir district and owned by the golden monarch company of spokane expects to ship about zoo tons of ore this winter which will average about 25 to the ton the road from amir to the mine has been completed and as soon as the snow is deep enough regular shipments will be begin in it is the intention of the company to erect a concentrator compressor plant and aerial tramway in the spring the blue bird people are sloping and sacking ore from their late find A quantity sufficient for one carload is already sacked and enough for two more cars is being brokon down it will probably be a week or ten days before they commence to ship as the trail is in bad condition at present A compressor plant is being installed on the property the bayonne mine at the head of summit creek has been bonded by the original owners downers to byron N white the bond is said to be for the first payment being cash the property was bonded some som time ago by L davenport of spokane for A good trail was built in from the landing on the kootenay river to the group by the government and a force of men was worked there all last winter and a part of the summer in august the bond was dropped but it was believed by many that the property was a rich one and the present deal is the result of a close examination of the property by mr white and his associates socia tes lardeau mining division twenty five men are working steadily at the reco and the mine is shipping about 22 tons each week the ophir lode has purchased a 10 stamp enill which they will install before spring some handsome samples have recently been een taken out of the ethel mine near trout lake city assays essays taken of the rock which is composed of sulphates of silver run un from to the property is owned ow ned by a philadelphia syndicate which has a force of 12 men at work opening it up DA tunnel is being driven to strike the lead at feet below the surface workings returns from the present shipment ot of guinea guinda gold ore ord are at ddn hand d the ship ment which was a test of six tons gave values of to the ton notwithstanding the high transportation charges it still nets a handsome profit after mining freight and treatment charges have been deducted there is an enormous quantity of ore on hand of the quality just shipped both standing in the workings and sacked so that should the company desire they could make a very large shipment the myee exploration company is one of the latest notations the company has been capitalized at and is to handle the cromwell group on the south fork of lardeau creek in the same mineral belt as the silver cup and nettie L the lead is about three feet wide and the ore has a distinctly banded appearance layers of hard white quartz alternating on the surface with a porous oxidized material these oxides with depth gradually change into a compact iron pyrites with which at times is associated a little galena and other silver bear ing minerals the oxidized material above referred to as occurring in the outcrop of the vein and which forms the highest grade ot of ore yet discovered on the property is of a rather remarkable appearance being very light and porous and composed of an aggregate of quartz alum stone oxide of iron and oxide of manganese the values on assays essays taken run from 14 to in gold and silver development work done consists of two open cuts there are two good pack trails leading to the property one from trout lake city and the other f from rom the shore of trout lake near the mouth of eight mile creek slocan mining division work on the ottowa is progressing very favorably no 3 drift has penetrated the ore body a distance of seventy feet and no break has appeared more than two carloads of ore has been taken out in drifting no being attempted some sacks have been filled awaiting the commencement of shipping of this amount tons is high grade stuff which will give returns of ounces ounces in silver the remainder is the general filling of the ore chute and will give over ounces in the meteor the vein has been caught in the lower crosscut cross cut the ore body is six inches wide and is of the same character and richness as that taken out of the which assayed 1536 ounces in silver and upwards of 12 in gold it is the intention of the lessees lessels to commence at once and make a shipment at an early date the pay streak on the legal on the north fork of lemon creek has been struck in the lower tunnel the pay streak is about ten inches wide and assays essays 64 to the ton in gold work will be suspended at the end of the present month until next summer when a car and track will be put in af ainsworth binl mining ng division the cork coric mine near kaslo will shortly commence to ship and from present indications the prop erty arty will prove a bonan bonanza zd Some 1200 feet of crosscutting cross cutting is being done and water power being developed preparatory to the building of an electric plant some very high assays essays have recently been obtained from ore on the shareholder at bear lake picked samples run as high as 2130 ounces silver and an average of the ore is ounces the lead fead shows about twenty inches wide the property adjoins adjo ins the well known silver glance A rich strike of ore going ounces silver to the ton has been found on the rio claim situated in the rambler basis of the mcguigan it is supposed that the vein of the old antione lead has been struck the owners intend to thoroughly prove the extent of their find and have already done a fair amount of development work the highland mine shipped tons of concentrates last week the force of men has been increased to fifty golden mining division the smelter at golden is to be erected by the laborers cooperative gold silver copper mining company of british columbia the estimated cost is and it is expected to have the same completed in a couple of months the smelter will be equipped to treat silver lead gold and copper ores and while it is primarily designed to handle the ores mined by the company its capacity will be sufficient to treat all the ore likely to offer within workable distance yale carribon mining division the owners owne rs of the vancouver group of claims in aspen grove Simil kameen county have opened on a big showing of copper the pay streak is forty feet in width and extends through the group quite recently samples of the ore from an 18 inch seam were sent to J mcvicker salt lake city for assay and the returns were ounces silver 80 gold and per cent copper and ounces silver gold and 1804 per cent copper A sample from the remaining portion of the full width of the pay streak gave ounces in silver gold and per cent in copper there was no platinum in the ore two weeks ago an adjoining group was sold to indianapolis people for and last week the sovereign group on the same hill was sold to indianapolis capitalists for phenomenal results are still being obtained I 1 from the point claim placer near barkerville late advices advises from there are to the effect that on november one pan of gravel had 56 ounces or this pan was not taken from diff different erent parts or of the face but was taken from a piece of ground that a gold pan would cover the gold was hoisted up in the gold pan by it self and was seen by seven or eight different people this is one of if not the largest amount of gold ever taken feromone fr from omone one pan of dirt 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