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Show HIGH-GRADE STRUCK iTM COPPER Ore Body Is Encountered in the No. 1 North Crosscut. j An excellent showing of high-grade ore fa a fitting description, according to the nine management, of the strike recently made in the No. 1 north crosscut just east of the Cabin claim on the Tom Moore tunnel level in the Emma Copper company's com-pany's ground, located in the Little Cottonwood Cot-tonwood district. The working has been following along lite fault plane and the ore occurs replacing re-placing the limestone beds which butt up against it. Only the tip of the ore body is exposed, but the work done since the discovery was first made shows a well-mineralized well-mineralized area, fifteen teet by eight feet, through which extend a number of veinlets of heavy sulphide silver, lead, and zinc ore up to six or eight inches in width. A winze was started on Friday to follow fol-low the ore downward, as it is making along the limestone strata, and the mas- slve character of the sulphide, taken together to-gether with the general geological conditions, condi-tions, engender confidence that it will open up into another such ore body as made the Alta camp famous even among the bonanza camps of early western mining min-ing history. ' T Samples of the ore assayed 32 per cent . Per cent zinc, 18 ounces silver jjiic1 20 cents gold. The No. 1 north crosscut was started to reach the Snow fault plane just east of the Cabin claim, and was turned to follow the fault plane where it was met. About seventy-five feet .in the working banded lime beds were encountered containing con-taining ore. Since the discovery was made, the workings have been extended by drifting and cro.ssciitting, with the result re-sult that the strike now appears much more important than when made. During the past twelve months the Km ma Copper property has been under active development, the operations being directed by able engineers. Results have not been secured as tiuicklv as originally anticipated because of certain unsettled questions regarding title to the ground, which were happily satisfactorily settled by the acquisition of Movlan C. Fox's holdings In March of this vear. It Is only sincfthat date that full scope could be given to the mine management, but the work has been somewhat retarded by weather conditions and shortage of labor The coming of spring, with the thaw-ins thaw-ins of the snow in the mountains, means greater activity and from now forward a succession of favorable results may be expected. The Emma Copper company is doing its development work in a section of ground that already mas yielded millions from shallow surface workings. The old mines in the '70s were vory productive of high-grade high-grade silver-lead ores. The Tom Moore tunnel penetrates the mountain about WW feet below the bottom bot-tom of the old workings, which lie jut above. It is evident that the principal ore bodies have occurred along fissures having a general northeasterly and southwesterly south-westerly direction. Where such fissures intersent favorable limestone strata the ore makes. |