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Show ! COPPER ORE STRIKE I , IDE JIT GOLD HILL i I Shipping- Grade Uncovered j in Victor Shaft of Pole i Star Company. TO SHIP REGULARLY Vein Two Feet Wide, Down 300 Feet, Gives Best of Promise. Special o The Tribune. GOLD HILL. Feb. 23. Intense in terest has been aroused in Gold Hill bv the discovery of copper ore of ship- ' P'ng Tacie at the depth of 300 feet in the Victor shaft of the Pole Star Copper Cop-per company, three miles from town, where operations have been conducted bv the comparry for the past year or more. The ore -occurs in a vein -which 1 has been followed down for about " thirty feet, but as the vein dips to the west." it parses into the hanging wall and has not been prospected for the full width. Superintendent Kessler will continue con-tinue sinking until a favorable depth for starting laieral work is reached, when a big station will be cut and crosscuts cross-cuts run from it o the vein both from the north and south sides. The ore is smelting grade and contains copper pyrites, py-rites, black oride and malachite, and when drifting and sloping in the ore can be started it is expected the mine will enter the list of regular producers and shippers. It had been the- intention to cut a station at 300 feet, and from there to drift north and south, also to cut east and west through the formations on each side of the fissure. The desired depth was reached a week ago, but before be-fore accurate measurement of the work accomplished during that week had been made, another round of holes was drilled and blaswd. And it was when the rock broken by that round was cleaned out that the first knowledge knowl-edge was gained as to the existence of the vein. Vein Is Exposed. The point was "04 feet below the coliar of the shaft, where just the top of the vein was exposed. Further sinking disclosed the fact that the vein was two feet wide, having a north-south north-south course, dipping slightlv to the west toward the hanging wall. Superintendent Super-intendent Kessler decided to continue sinking for the purpose of prospecting the vein betore beginning to carry out the previous intentions as to starting lateral work. As the vein does not dip much from the vertical, it has been followed for about thirty feet, although the shaft is gradually passing through and under jr. But preparations are again being made to cut a station and start drifts to follow the vein north and south. While at the rdace where the vein was encountered the ore doe? not extend higher than .304 feet, at other places it vjvili doubtless be found to come closer to the surface, w-here stopes can be developed de-veloped and extraction ot shipments b madV while sinking to gain additional dppth in the shaft may be done at the. ame limf. Also, as there are other figures acd veins traversing the Keco claim, th,' crosscuts can be extended to intersect tem, the surface indications! being pronilng for findirg bodies of or" in the primary formations that have not been subjected to leaching. Mogul Shaft Strike. Superintendent S'. F. Snyder of the Western Utah Extension ( opper com-panv com-panv reports the recent strike of high-grade high-grade copper ore in the Mogul shaft' is holding out well, tie vein having been followed down for nearly thirty feet, proving continuous and six to" sfven feet wide. Samples taken a fw davs a20 across three feet of solid ore were a-:pved and found to earrv from 9.41 ro 12.02 per cent copper, the first sample sam-ple also showing l.(Hj ounces silver and the second showing SO cents gold and 2.16 ounces silver. Another average sample carried $2.20 gold, 4.-5 ounces silver and 16.4 per cent copper. Sinking is being continued, and. while it is difficult to make a big saving of the ore under the circumstances, as much as possible is being kept separate from the waste. Part of the time during dur-ing the past week the whole bottom of the shaft showed low-grade ore at the sides of the vein proper. An interest- J ing feature was the discovery of an opeo crevice that was formerly a water j course, three feet west of the vein, the i width of the crevice being from several j inches to one foot. The strike of the 1 ore body is east of north and west of I south, which is a characteristic of the J most important ore-bearing veins in this j district. I Superintendent Tucker of the Oold ! Hill-Tooele company reports a depth of j nearly forty feet has been attained in -the winze being sunk from the com- i pany's main tunnel on the Oolostone i claim. The winze is being continued : as a vertical working, though the flip! of the ore shoot carried it out at one I side. "When some additional depth has I been reached a crosscut will be run to 1 the ore, which will then b drifted on! to the south, under the big hill. - j Work of excavating for the placing j of foundations for the mill to be I erected at the Utah mine, rear Fii-h I Springs, is we!! under way, an 1 several I carloads of machinery for the mill are to soon be received. The mill is being . erected for the purpose of roncutrat-ing roncutrat-ing the immpn-o low-crrade dumps have been accumulated since the discovery of the mine maov years ago. The pumps installed recently to handle han-dle the water have been given severe 1 tests and found to operate sati-fa"tor- J ilv, so no trouble is anticipated bv the tnanaeuiert when deep development ; work shall be undertaken. There are ; said to be more than twenty place ' where fine ore is expose I at water J level. The ore is silver-lead, shipping: grades usuallv running 100 to !'.':0 ounces silver to the ton. j |