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Show 1 CREW5; Limits of Metal Body Have Not Been Reached in Any Direction. FIRST REFORT ISSUED Maximum Expense Incurred! Because of Poor Opera- J tion Facilities. j for fh" fir.-1 tin"1 Hn-e the In; fdnke wa? made parly in .Inly, (hp art-unl production, pro-duction, receipts and i-ot h in eortnee-t eortnee-t ion witb the opera) ion of Columbus Revall are made, puhlie through a market mar-ket letter issued yesterday by Kvans, Morris & W h i t n r y . The r op n r t as rompilo-l followiui; a careful inspection of thp property ):i;.t Sunday by nicm-brs nicm-brs of the broUniiuo firm, prominent buino:'.! men and mining em.nneerF, and its ipMinnee whs authorized by the man,-; agompiH of the property. It sy.ys in part: "Up (o Hi-cembrr 1 Columbus TCexall has 5iipned to the smelters $i5n,(l00 worth nt ore. as shown by tho net smeller smel-ler returns, every pound of which was taken f iif. in the running 'f drifts, laiss and crossents to ascertain the extent, ex-tent, of the. ore body. The body itself remains intact, without, its limits having hav-ing been reached tn any direetion. The development has eut nerops the t'aco of the bedding for ?) feet, and still the ore continue;; on eneli side. Its thickness, thick-ness, for the most part, is twenty-eight feet, and the limits of the ore liavo not hern penetrated, either top or bottom. The drifts and raises have actually blocked out 20.000 tons of the same grade that has been shipped, and demonstrated dem-onstrated easily .U, OftC. tons additional in the limited area of five months' development. Uniform Run. "The ore runs uniformly from 8 to 0 per cent copper, 8 to 1;j ounces silver and from ob to d." cents gold. During August, tho eompany shipped ;ii!S,Gi-pounds; ;ii!S,Gi-pounds; September, S7 1,842 pounds; October, Oc-tober, 2,0((3,M'' 1 pounds; November, l,7i;9,.")iit pounds; a total of 5,036,302 pounds, nr tons, "To mine and' market this ore the maximum expense hun been incurred because be-cause nt the time the strike was made, as is usual in the case of prospect properties, prop-erties, the mine was poorly equipped. The cost per ton averaged approximately approximate-ly $17 a ton, divided approximately: Smelter charges, $r; transportation, $6; mining, $;-'.; overhead, o "The shipments do not represent the amount of ore that could easily have been produced had the mine been prop-i prop-i ('vh' equipped and had transportation 4 facilities been adecptate. During the past five months the company has expended ex-pended ? 10,000 from ore profits in erecting erect-ing the necessary buildings and installing install-ing proper machinery, and $10,000 on the indebtedness because of the consolidation con-solidation of the Columbus Extension and the Rexall has been paid, al?o from ore profits. Today the mine is thoroughly thor-oughly equipped for the production of seven tv-f ive to 10U tons of ore daily, the transportation facilities are being remedied gradually, and there is due from the smelter lor ore settlements approximately ap-proximately $2u,00ti. The total indebtedness indebt-edness of the company today is ap-. ap-. proximately $10,0uo. ' Concrete Report. ' - ' ' Concret ely, the work aci-.umplished by the Columbus Rexall in the development develop-ment so far may be described as follows: fol-lows: "The strike, which was made 5000 feet from tho portal of the main tunnel, first developed ore of a width of from two to three inches, which led into an enormous bedding which made from the fissure to the north, running parallel mid but a short distance front the fissure fis-sure which made tho Cardiff mine. From the point of the strike drifting way con-j con-j tinned through the ore bodv 110 feet : westerly. Fe-r the first fifty feet it w;is twelve feet thick from what was Uten supposed lo be the hanging and foot wall. I'm the next fifty i'eet the ore expanded to from twenty-eight to thirty fool, in thickness. At 110 feet a drift was run thirty feet to the west to :)H-ert:iiu the width of the body. This - drift was all in ore. At thirty feet a I crosscut was made lo the south for ibirty feet with ore on the bottom and j two sides, thus making the first four i ore blocks of 'JOOO tons each. r "The engineers then started a drift forty f eel south from the breast of the I tunnel, where the strike was made, in I ' tli-1 direction of the blocked-out ore body. This drift was run 110 feet. At ee onty-five loot a raise was made en ; tirely in ore, thirty feet in thickness, to tlie hanging wall. Thirty feet further fur-ther the ore body was acain encountered in a raise fifteen feet from this level and continued through ore twentv-eight trot to the suppose,! hunting wall. The d'ift is now being continued for thirtv lert. where it will make eoitt.'tev with the first block tit the west. From a point of seven t y-f ive foot in No. 1 Mi not. ; drift has been run to the south thirty feet and to the west thirty feet, il h ore on all sides. ' Systems of Drifts. " At firM it wn thought that the tunnel tun-nel level was the font wall nf the ore bnily, but iu the la;' .-oui'le of weol-,- a lower drift has npei"d a new ore strike nf vastlv greater ib'hness than the ore n bo e the 1 mi uel. Two! vo feet of ore j n -5-n s as hi:;h as ti.'t ounces in sih er j and ". per cent copper. Whether this i , 'vnud hed.i i m or n pa rr of the big bedding which is being exploited, has I not a-- e been detenu i ned. J "This .y stent nt drifts. wiies and! e roS'-ut -i is prar t ic:i! I v in the renter of! the be. Mini:, which dips at mi angle ol ' about devices. Tito d i me nsion ol firs bedning are very great, the devel-j optnent to dale indicating ore Miffnient ! '. to ship at Hie rate of sexentyfive tou a da for tlie next three or four venrs. "The fi.-siire. a p pro i ni a t .'1 v inn feet! north of the pieent o-e bodies ami front 1 whn'h the company has e erv en t 1 1 i 'ea-'on to beliexo the veceiu (ire niaep. has a strike some t'et through the ) Kevall ground. l-'rom thi tact alone one i-an estimate tlie pe'i;ble tremen dnus nre bod ies within tho corn pa n v ; lines. Still further to the north i an o: her t'isure which t ra'eres Kexall ground, a n -I bu t a s!ovt d'st a nee Cm- -t,'rr ,",n running parallel, i the ("arditf j r |