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Show I) FIND BIG FISSURE LEDGE j j OF COPPER-GOLD ORE I ' Special to The Tribune. I CAL1ENTE. New, July 12. Tim Wilson ( and Frank Barney caino In yesterday i from a prospecting trip, In which they fovcrcd the districts lying south of Los IK j m Vegas ranch and worked east to the Colo- J rado river to a point about twenty miles j south of Moapa, where they located two h claims on a big fissure ledge oC coppcr- I gold ore, from which they took about two j , ions of ore which assays IS per cent cop-. cop-. per and $10 gold. They have run a tunnel 125 feet on tho ledge, which IIch between granite walls, and at the breast of one I drift run in from face of tunnel seventy i ' feet tliey took ore going 525 gold and 23 L per cent copier. The copper Is a. red I i-vldc mixed with native copper, and a Utile Ut-ile of the' latter is shot copper, resembling l he product of the copper mines near Mar-i Mar-i ciuottc. Mich-. They also located three claims within a i mile of the Colorado river in the same dls-j dls-j trict, where they ran an open cut in twen-Vj twen-Vj ' feet on a twenty-Inch vein of free gold, 1J panning coarse valuc3 freely, and which , f 1 they estimate will go at least S1C0 per ton. i They are en route to Denver, where they will confer with Capt G. IL Murray, for-, for-, i morly of the United Stales army In tho i Philippines, and who Is now a mining broker In Denver. Capt. Murray and Moso 'Tolrismlth grubstaked these men and are I backed by abundant capital to carry their j mining venture to a successful consumma-' consumma-' lion. . m m m George Furney of Furney, Blakeman & Vorrls, Chicago stock exchange men, passed through camp today in company with Mr. Bulmer and Pete Cameron, pros- , lectors, who located the Broad Gauge I gold mines north from Moapa about twen- ty-four mllen, February 1. Mr. Furney and y his associates have taken an option on the I I group" for SSGOO, and if the opinion of their f 1 " epreeentatlvo is favorable on same a't 1 presont development, they will put up a 1 ' Urge capacity mill for the trcatmont of 4 their ore. Cameron says they have located twelve 1 mines in the group, and six of these are ' cn the same ledge, which Is two feet to l wo feet eight inches at grass roots, In white quartz lying between shale and porphyry por-phyry walls on the surface, the shale be-:)g be-:)g displaced by porphyry at a depth of 1"0 feet on the Congress claim, where they j obtained values of from 25 to 31S5 per ton 1 1 ! in free gold. Samples of tho ore show i hematite and free gold taken from this J (rroup. Or. a parallel ledgo they have a ' lold-sllvcr proposition going 'J25.10 in gold and CO to 110 ounces silver. .This ledgo I shows a width of four feet on cropplnga, I nnd at breast of tunnel, which Is now -In is0 feet, it has widened to llvo.feot seven-i seven-i I Inches and lies between slick walls of talc i and shale. - -i 1 1 William Nelson and Joo Burgelt, mining i men from Cheyenne. Wyo., nnd who are largely interested in1 tho Wyoming oil fiulda, passed through camp today, en Joule to Moapa and viclnltv. They , would not state the purpose of their visit, but a gentleman who accornp'anled them to ''allento on the train stated that they were ooklng up tho oil situation and intend . making an exhaustive examination of a )' district lying south from Moapa, ' from 'j which reports of oil sand have already been made. iA |
