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Show HAMBURG SHMG HIGHLYJIJIBLE President Godbe Makes Official Of-ficial Report After Inspection Inspec-tion of Mine. PROGRESS IS NOTED Property in Condition to Ship From 500 to 1000 Tons Per Month. Murray C. Qodhe. manaidris? director of the I'rinr-e Consolidated Mining company, one of the biggest arid most profitable mines of the Ploche district , and also president and manager of the Hamburg property, hinted In the same district, returned re-turned two flays ago from Ploche, where he primarily was concerned with operations opera-tions at the prince Consolidated, but took time to make a thorough examination examina-tion of the recent developments on the Hamburg. Mr. .;dbe made an official statement, embodied In a letter to the Evans, Morris. Whltnev company, a firm that is heavily In terns fed In I he HiimlmrK. The communication com-munication In ra rt follows; At the time the Hamburg property was examined by M. M- Johnson, the development ended at the east fault, which 1m tibout V(t feel ettui of the flitaft from the surface lo (he tunnel level. At that point the bed, had been cut off and a raise whs being put in that fnull, expecting to enonniter the eon tin nut ion of the bed. Since that time the bed ban been encountered and has been followed continuously In the upper, or sublev.-l, for nearly 10H feet, with ore showing In the bed five fe.et thick Hie entire durance. The. tunnel litis been extended IliO feet, and a raise put up to the ore at a point fifty-two feet back from Its face. No ore baa been sloped from the ore beds in these workings, the ore shipments ship-ments comini; almost entirely from development work, nnd from the small Mnplnir that to being done west of the shaft between that point and the Intersection In-tersection of the fissure nnd the dyke. Fissures Bedding Source. There seems to be a regular system sys-tem of north-smith fissures cutting- the beddlits. but only slightly faulting it. These nor I h-south fissures give evidence evi-dence of having been sources of mineralization min-eralization to the bedding, for at tha Intel section of those fissures the ore in the bedding is much higher grade, although of high grade between all such fissui es so far found. For instance, in-stance, at the intersection of the last raise from the tunnel to t he ore bed. which raise was put up on one of t lie north -south fissures, the ore in the bed assayed Jii.t'.o gold, lti ounces in siker. per cent lead, and the average of the ore between that fissure fis-sure and the next fissure to the west nssavs L'U per cent lead and about the same in silver and gold. It is our 'opinion that the Tlam-- Tlam-- burg fissure, on which the tunnel was run Its entire length, is not only a mineralizing fissure, but has faulted ihe bed and a continuation of the ore ' in the beds will be found to the north of that fissure below the tunnel level. Seeking "Cut-out." A nice body of high-prude ore was encountered on the tunnel level in t ho fissure, but wns cut out hy another north-south break, hut should be found ; ' on the other side of the break, for wo have hat! ore continuously In that fissure from the dykes near the mouth of the tunnel to the face of the tunnel, tun-nel, a distance, of better than 400 feet. We are sinking- a winze on that ore. and I feel confident that in a few davs we will encounter the bedding to the north of the fissure as stated. Ths mine Is now in excellent physical phys-ical condition, and has sufficient ore exposures to enable us to ship from ruin to liioo tons per month, and in my opinion the development work can be carried ahead fast enough so that such outrun can be maintained for a considerable con-siderable tenet h of time. We can reasonably expect to find long ore channels in the bedding where same Is cut bv the north-south breaks. It is our intention to now start an itotfve campaign of ore extraction, startlnsr In that block between the shaft and the dvke: continuine the tunnel wtih raises at regular Intervals Inter-vals no to the bed. and sinking the winze to encounter the ore bed on the north of the fissure, which will. I believe, be-lieve, keen several months' ore blocked out ahead of our extraction. Continuation Expected. We can confidently exreot to find the continuation of ore beds north of the fissure In the winze, for drag ore has been found in the fissure, indicating , the faulting after the formation of the ore. I will call your attention to Mr. Johnson's report, wherein he considered con-sidered it a foregone conclusion that we would cot the continuation of the ore east of the fault on which the raise was beint: put up. on account of the drag ore found In that fault, which, as 1 have shown above, has been demonstrated and has proven his predictions. 4 With the comparatively small ore shipment maintained in the past, while our development work w-as being be-ing carried on. the property has made money; and it is my opinion with active ore extraction the profits wilt be satisfactory to the stockholders. T wm hi srhlv pirn sed with the de velopment work. and the increased value of the ore produced. The smelter smelt-er returns show that the last ten carloads car-loads of ore pveraced ?47.53 per car, or about $-1 net per ton. I expect a great nianv sun rises when ore extraction extrac-tion Is carried on. and believe our ton-nasre ton-nasre output will be fur beyond our present expectation, with constantly increasing ore values. DEEP GREEK ROAD TO BE COMPLETED SOI I Assurance that the completion of the I Deep Creek railroad, the line now under ' construction from. Wendover into Gold i Hill, a distance of nearly fifty miles, was ! given yesterday by Captain Duncan Mac Vfchie, who is the "man behind" jn the big enterprise and who has recently returned re-turned from the scene of construction. Captain MacVichie said yesterday that not more than one and one-half miles of the grade remained to be completed, that between sixteen and eighteen miles of track were already laid, and that the laying lay-ing of the track was being rushed at the rate of about two miles per day. This, It Is anticipated with confidence, will bring the completed line Into Gold Hill not later than January 5. In response to a direct question. Captain MacVichie said there was and would be no question as to the securing of roiling stock for the new line as soon as it was completed, adding that all financial arrangements ar-rangements had been made and that the road would be able to go Into active com-missign com-missign just as soon as the last of the rails were laid. Speaking of the property of the Western Utah Copper company, a Deep Creek property which managed, by Captain MacVichie, he said that the company was employing thirty men in the development I of ore that carried 5 per cent copper 3 ! ounces of silver and 40 cents gold, open ; ing a big oody preparatory to making shipments as soon as the new road is completed. |