Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-05-03 | Page 6 | Taps Thirty Feet of Copper Ores

I Taps Thirty Feet of Copper Ores New Channel Opened Up in the Domains Do-mains of Boston Con. While Advancing Ad-vancing to the North. To a chapter of strikes thrtt has characterized charac-terized tho administration of Louis S. Catcs as manager of the Boston On 'a Bingham properties, hu Ju.t been added h another, In which thrn was cxin-d on I hi departure from oamp a width of thirty feet, the orfs revealing an a' ram of 3 "por cent copper, Willi tho VlUuea ID gold and silver varying from fc! to Jl pr ton. Thin ore-bearing channel independent inde-pendent of any lilthi-rto encountered In ihe property was broken Into while dining din-ing north through the llmeatone from No J ralso In Prahody tunnel, and whllo the drift Is advancing to a connection with the main contact betwet n tl"j limi and qunrt?.lt-. tho Kline stop Ifl bclnt? estab-flahed estab-flahed preliminary to tho active extraction of ores from the body, which afford every assurance of developing into one as resourceful as any of tho largo number with which the property Is endowed Luring tho month which has just been clipped from the calendar I In re was marketed mar-keted by tho management fT00 tons of copper, gold and silver-bearing sulphides that compares favorably with any of which the camp Lb productive, while some of tho lots no doubt exceeds the average. A. consignment of SS tons for example, was settled for on controls showing 3t per cent copper, with 0. 16 In gold and $1.10 silver per ton. Tho further extraction extrac-tion of ore will be suspended for two or three days, saJd Manager Catcs, during which period tho three new stacks will be raised at tho compressor. Meanwhile H. K. Burton, the company's engineer, has submitted his llrst contour map of tho tremendous block of oppi r, gold and sll r-boaring porphyry li" h.d d In the company's domain, his deductions showing that within that block I contained con-tained no fewer than 4),000,000 tons of thl class of metal-bearing rock. Mr Burton Is now Storting "ii a detailed map with ten feet contours that will bo hurried hur-ried to completion. It Is Into this Mtupen-doiis Mtupen-doiis mass of mineral that the Teck tunnel tun-nel is now advancing at th rate of about thirty feet n week, and through which t he-company he-company will find a permanent outlet for II this source of tremendous wealth. Mr. Cates leaves for camp again this morning.