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Show POPE-SiillT BIG DEVELOPMENT New Strike Proves Continuation Continu-ation and Richness of Great Copper Deposit. ' TO BUILD ORE BINS Carload of High-Grade on Dump to Be Shipped When Roads Permit. Detailed report confirmins "le recent Announcement that an important strike had been made in tunnel No. 5 at the Popc-Shenon property, situated in the Salmon River district, has hastened preparations prep-arations intended to put the mine on a resular producing oans. : - work incident to the installation of a power line, compressor and heavy machine ma-chine drills is now under way and the construction of a good road to the mine and ore bins at the mine and the railroad rail-road loading- station is to he undertaken riht away. Until the power line and new machinery ma-chinery can be installed, it is planned to work two shifts at the property, but as soon as the improvements have been made it is the intention to work three shifts regularly. For some time, at least, it is the intention of the management to confine the work to tunnel No. o, which is the lowest of the workings on the property. , i The recent discovery, which Is believed to Drove the value of the property, consists con-sists of about thirty inches of high-grade copper-silver ore. which will run around He per cent copper and propably an ounce of silver to the unit of copper. Besides the high grade, there are about three feet of lower grade ore in the tunnel face, which will average around a pet-cent pet-cent copper and carry some values in silver. Five Tunnels Driven. Five tunnels have been driven on the fissure to prove the continuation of the ore, and the distance between tunnel No. J and tunnel No. is approximately iouo feet vertically. About 300 feet be:ow tunnel No. 5 the continuation of the ore-bearing ore-bearing vein was proved when ore was encountered during the erection of the cabin. Tlie vein has been traced across the propertv for a distance of tfO'Xi feet. The walls have not yet been encountered in any of the workings and surface Indications In-dications arc that the fissure is approxi-ni:i approxi-ni:i tely tu-i feet wide. Tunnel No. 1 is in ninety feet: tunnel No. 2. l-'.u feet: tunnel No. :l. .'100 feet; tunnel No. 4. :!,n". feet, ami tunnel No. 5 was in 4;:7 feet when the last report was received at the local offices of the company, com-pany, tlood shipping ore has been found in every tunnel, as well as large bodies of ore of a milling grade. Three cars of ore were shipped from the property last fall, mostly from tunnel No. 11, and the smelter settlements were based on copper values ranging from i.lti to J1.9 per cent. Because of the location of tunnel No. 3. however, it was difficult to get the ore down to the roadway, and when the winter weather interfered with shipping ship-ping operations it was decided to push ! the work on the lowest tunnel to prove , the continuation of the high-grade ore I bodv and to provide better shipping facilities. fa-cilities. The last forty feet in tunnel No. :1 went through ore carrying 10 to 15 per cent average copper values and the face of the tunnel was full of high-grade ore when work there was suspended. To Ship Regularly. Although no ore has been taken from tunnel No. except what was necessary in connection with development, a carload car-load of high-grade ore has been accumulated accumu-lated on the dump and will be started to the smelter as soon as the roads are In condition for hauling. It is expected that the power line and new machinery will be installed and the road and bins completed com-pleted in about six to eight weeks, and then it is planned to keep the ore moving to tile smelter regularly, i l-:'xhauslive tests to determine the milling mill-ing qualities of the ores have been con ducted and it is planned to erect a mm to treat the immense tonnage of low-gratie low-gratie ore that lias been developed. For t'ne next few months, however, it is probable prob-able that all efforts will be concentrated on ti-.e extension of the lower tunnel and the removal of high grade with a view to getting under the tipper workings and starting stoning operations. After a careful examination of the propertv last vear. Professor 11. H. Bradford Brad-ford of the University of Utah, who is consulting engineer for the company, in an estimate he believed conservative, expressed ex-pressed the opinion that more than a million dollars' worth of ore had been proved in nlo.l; in the mine. As a basis for his estimate. Pr. Bradford limited the ore bodv to a width of six feet and the values to JU percent copper. Since then it has been demonstrated in the various workings that the ore body is from twelve to foriv feet thick at least, and carries values up to 3." or 40 per cent eoprer. Values Exceed Estimates. That the average values are much greater than the maximum allowed in br. I Bradford's estimate is Indicated by the ! smelter settlements on shipments already made and by samplings since made by ! another engineer. Most of the ore shipped ! was taken from tunnel No. 2. From a ! careful sainply of a twelve-loot crosscut in tunnel Xo.'l. an average value of 7. .2 I per cent copper was the result. The ! average of the samoling of a filteen-foot crosscut in tur.nd No. 4 was 7 per cent copper. . It is the belief of the management ihat the high-grade shoot cut in. the upper I workings "has now been encountered in tunnel No. and the indications are that the ore steadily enrirhens as depth is at-lened at-lened The ore reeentlv encountered carries car-ries cuprite and copper glance and some native copper, which indicates that the deposit continues to great depth. The compmiv is controlled by Salt Lake men, who have steadfastly refused to permit per-mit the treasury stock to be placed on the market, ami that position Is to be maintained, it is announced. When additional ad-ditional funds were necessary to carry on development, the little group of stockholders met and levied an assessment assess-ment heavv enough to meet the current demands. 'The officers of ihe company are: n. 1). Winder, president: Thomas Austin, vice president; C. H. Bradford, secretary-treasurer: A. Bradford and i?. S. Stiiiman, additional directors. |
