Show M mascot ascot oxide and sulphide ores while the last issue of the mining review was on the press the mascot copper company with main office in salt lake received a pound sample of the oxide ore from its copper mines at DOS cabezas cochise county arizona which was a beauty and which has since attracted a great deal of attention this sample came from a solid body of oxide ore six feet in width previously described in these columns it looks rich but fire tests disclosed values beyond the most sanguine expectations of the management the assayers certificate showing the average content of the rock to be 39 7 per cent copper ounces silver and 7 in gold to ore body had bad been penetrated four feet at the time the recital of its discovery was made two weeks ago since then the vein veil has been crosscut cross cut for a distance of fifteen feet without disclosing the further wall letter from the mine on the dinst the mining review received a communication from assistant superintendent erin B E A ely in which he says the face of the west crosscut cross cut in the consolidated tunnel is still in ore this crosscut cross cut is now into the vein fifteen feet with the opposite wall not yet in sight the ore averages about 12 per cent copper 6 ounces silver and in gold to the br 7 lip P iron tower vein mascot copper co open cut and tunnel showing sulphide and carbonate ores photo hj by will C higgins j the ton were it the policy of the company to enter the market at this time it could easily ship hundreds of tons of this class and character of ore to say nothing of the fine bodies of high grade carbonate ore showing in tunnel no I 1 workings from which several thousand dollars have been received from trial shipments made during exploratory work last year in the consolidated tunnel where the great bodies of fine sulphide ore have already been exposed work is progressing in a most satisfactory manner in the east drift of the consolidated tunnel reference to which was made in our last issue the aggregate of the four veins cut through would make a grand total of eighty two feet or ore averaging at least 10 per cent in copper with good gold and silver values mention was also made of the discovery in the west drift from the tunnel this ton this has every indication of making a very large vein of sulp sulphide laide ore work in the main consolidated tunnel will shortly be commenced where it is expected one of the veins already cut in the east crosscut cross cut in the tunnel will shortly be encountered the west crosscut cross cut in the tunnel will also cut these veins at a distance of about 1600 feet from where the niala main tunnel will cut them the vein already encountered in the west crosscut cross cut is one of them and from the fact that sulphide ore has been found in it there is extra good reason to believe that sulphides sulp hides will be found in the others when they are reached especially is this true since all of the veins to be cut by the main tunnel show good sulphides sulp hides on the surface at a point above where the tunnel will cut them additions to the power plant at the consolidated tunnel are nearly completed which adds materially material ay to the capacity of the plant no 1 tunnel is still being driven with the best 0 of f indications of a vein ahead of where the face now is advises against selling stock captain ben W tibby the consulting engineer and geolot geologist of the mascot copper copner company who recently returned to the nine mine f from rom a visit to salt lake city and who has since made a careful examination of the wonderful discoveries made during mine development is so enthusiastic over the mhd show showing ing made that he writes the company advising the discontinuance of the sale of treasury stock in his letter captain tibby says the 17 foot vein which was encountered in the east crosscut cross cu cut t in the consolidated tunnel which is all solid sulphide ore is the best mineralized vein it has ever been my pleasure to see I 1 consider th this is the most important of any of the veins yet encountered and it will alone make a mine equal to the parrot mine of butte my reason for saying that this is the best mineralized vein that I 1 ever saw is because of the fact that the mineral is so evenly distributed tri buted throughout the entire vein material al As the ore is the unaltered sulphide this proves its deep seat edness the oregon open cut and shaft and the off incline are about 1800 feet west of the consolidated tunnel and both these places show the true sulphide ore now we have this ore at feet on the east side of the tunnel making in all 2200 feet of continuous sulphide ore all question of doubt about the property has been eliminated by the finding of the seventeen feet of sulphide ore in the east crosscut cross cut at a deptin depth of feet from the surface and it is now a certainty that we have a mine equal to those at bisbee cananea cananda or jerome when developed my advice to you is to not sell another share of stock at any price it is rare to find a property as good as this has proven to be and I 1 would advise that you keep it as nothing makes money as fast as a good mine |