| Show the sapho copper mine of ely nevada NW bmw aw N M 4 M M TW tamp v in accordance with notice given in the daily press the sapho mining company held a special stockholders meeting in this city on the ath dinst the result of the meeting being that two important changes were made in the tion and bylaws by laws of the company and it is believed because of these changes that the affairs of the association are now in better shape than ever before one important act of the meeting was the making the capital stock of the company assessable non the other was the increasing of the capitalization of the company from shares of twenty five cents each to shares of a dollar each shares of the increase being set aside for treasury purposes and shares share as trustees stock for the purchase and acquisition of desirable adjoining ely being the principal place of business for that section of the state the principal claim of the group in point of development is the sapho and twenty years ago when the rage was all for gold and silver and paying value and quantity in the bob tail claim in particular the gold seekers after running a thirty foot tunnel encountered a two foot body of solid ore that assayed 7 per cent in the red metal when they quit work in dis A r X k 0 ar the weber shaft on the sapho property THE SAPHO COMPANY the sapho company owns a group of six claims comprising about acres which are located in the very heart of the great mineral belt in robinson district white pine county nevada and the group is but a mile and a half distant from the town of I 1 ely the county seat of white pine county the energies ies of the miner m iner and prospector were directed to the search for these precious metals copper and lead then being ignored the claims comprising the sapho group were worked and prospected for ore productive of these metals and the miners were greatly discouraged and disgruntled when copper ore was encountered in their prospect working in what would now be con 15 gust it was three years ago that the sapho mining company the personnel of which included men of prominence in ely and salt lake city was incorporated corp orated its holdings then consisting of the sapho uneeda and bob tail claims the alms aims of the company at first encompassed the mining for gold as there is a fine showing of the royal metal on its group but following the example of its big neighbors in the mining line attention was later on directed to th the e development of a copper mine as operations throughout the district have demonstrated the fact that ore bodies productive of gold at or near the surface change to copper bearing zones with depth and the exploit exploitation aaion of the sapho so far would seem to bear out this opinion and conclusion so forcibly demonstrated in adjoining properties development OF THE SAPHO considerable prospecting has already been done in the development of the sapho group and the work so far accomplished has been of a most gratifying nature and mineral has been disclosed in every tunnel or prospect hole no matter how shallow on the sapho claim the weber shaft has a depth of thirty six feet the bottom with only the wall of the vein exposed showing a threefoot three foot body of ore that as says 22 per cent copper with a foot of mineral alongside that averages sixteen ounces in silver and 12 in gold one hundred and twenty feet east of the weber shaft is the cripps shaft which is feet in depth and in the bottom of which there is a two foot ore body that in a large vein of mineral by fire tests discloses average values of 7 per cent in copper to the ton the of porphyry showing encouraging values in gold one hundred feet east of the cripps shaft a ten foot prospect hole shows a foot of ore of the same character and value two hundred feet northwest of the cripps shaft a fifteen foot cut also shows a foot of the same kind and quality of ore the indications an all of these workings being that with greater depth the ore bodies will prove their continuity with greater strength in size and value on the uneeda claim at a point feet southeast of the cripps shaft shallow workings have disclosed about twelve inches of ore which in character and value compare well with the ore zone showing in the cripps shaft on the bob tail claim a working tunnel is now in a distance of feet this will be the chief workings of the mine as it is lower down than the other openings on the group the intention being to continue its course until it has out cut under and opened up the bodies of pay copper ore showing on the surface and partially developed by the weber and cripps shafts it Is believed that an ex tension extension of feet more in this tunnel will tap these ore bodies and place the A 4 r A 41 0 in W the th e cripps shaft on the sapho mine on a productive and paying basis and at the same time give the company a large area of good sloping ground to the surface the accident reliance and loo loo three claims added to the sapho group recently have been but little developed although several years ago the reliance was productive of from thirty to fifty anns to of 30 per cent copper ore which was worked in a crude way by a small smelter further up the canyon FORMATION shorn of its stratas of quartzite occurrences of andesite slate and shale which geologists will claim for this section the general formation of this portion of robinson district is lime and the vein is a contact between lime and porphyry the quartz droppings crop pings being strong and well defined and heavily mineralized the strike of the vein is northwest and southeast with a dip to the southwest the ore occurrences a are re generally on the side of the lode and the vein grows larger st stronger ronier and a n d richer with depth from all indications the sapho vein is the same upon which the geroux new york nevada white pine and mckinley mines are located and these 9 great reat properties extend along this wonderfully mineralized zone in an almost direct line at a point feet from the mouth of the bob tail tunnel a crosscut will be run to the north through a strata or wall of marble to develop a large body of copper ore believed to exist in that direction this work will be done for the reason that in the jupiter claim of the mckinley group a deposit of this marble was found to be in the nature of a horse strata or wall behind which a mammoth body of fine concentrating copper ore was found and opened up physical conditions in the bob tail are so nearly identical with those encountered in the jupiter and the formations aro are so nearly alike with the same occurrence of marble showing bowing s in the latter that it is the 2 ON 4 4 gm pin aj A IT K ay tunnel on the bob tail opinion of experts of note that in the bob tail tunnel by cutting through the marble a fine body of the red metal will also be disclosed |
