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Show gj DIRECTS IB DISCOVERY L. Mine. One of the (orla'i Gri Bonanzas, Spurned Several Time. Lj Spends Large jOnly to Miss Fabu-5 Fabu-5 Wealth Few Feet. i n,ln!ns rcorJ,J 1 ! British Colum'..-i. ap- KZm J nortb - Prlnc "'or, than JiO.iH In driving 'Zntmt ltut finding one or . ,r bodlM in the world. . ?S?c!iiSnow proven to contain at 6 Smv estimate over S30 - witiWv expect to prov, oi:e S?ji?hd spent over $60,000 '?seK-h lor '.his vast store-health store-health anJ had itaa-5 itaa-5 Inarch Id disgust. It was the frfWWty. who had been ore-J ore-J e mJM. " resulted in the Ctan deposit by crosscutUng a ,t account of the discovery L't'ore is given i, :., "o-e e: tho er:c::!A. .cc.i-.ori ::. r.ov.- ..-.a.ie f- j'v.:'-.:-e Premier :r.:r.e. Discovered in 1910. three distinct veins, which cor sr. --Tore tvxiies o: the Preraier mine, .dk-overed and staked by William and the.BunUns brothers In r:'j'0 Th" two claims numbered i ! along with an adjoining group : U liter bv other par;:es. passed to -r-ol of 0. B. Bush, who organised on-Bear River Mining company j winter of 1910-11 to develop some work by this company i a revealed some good-looking quartz. liilns some iron pyrite and some : n Seer the property was idie un-I un-I J 0r U14. w-hen jt was ex-td ex-td for a well-known eastern Cana- . Eo by W. J. Rclfe. The out- j attracted his attention and work teaced at oace. The vein w as traced ESS feel down the hill in a west- , fflrection, the surface was gripped, cots put in at intervals along its j (tk The results were excellent. I i ore being exposed in every cut. Hit running as high as 15500 in ial silver. tr secx-ing auch fine returns, for ' t mknown reason possibly on ac- 1 it S t-e o::?reak of the war this I pair tscontinued work. : eatlrel? r.ew conception of the po- of the camp was a direct out- i s of this activity-. The prooerty was; i medtely bonded for New York j ta by H. R. Plate, and work com-i com-i the ensuing winter, serai adits were run by the new par without revealing any very en-JgS, en-JgS, showings. In one of the tur.- . 525 . onoounurlni the vein. WlUOtl prOV4) to t 04. font wuu. but wut poor mlnciuluutlon. Aftor Opra-iion Opra-iion oMmwtinu ovm- a irUxl vt n.-urly r iintron month, at u roat pxoo,m11ixB l0 00, th NnW york yn4tct4 vlx. QUians.i its hoiui aiuI o.ull ih onip. Now Company Vaniirrs Control. in tho tumitttr of Lilt, ft fnw montha fcfUtf H R. PlivU haj left, U. K. NtU of Hknn was liuluoc.1 hy Pal lly who i l,fen rort,nn for both Bttih and II lain ami mill Ulinved U wouhl muko n.ino io icKk over tiio property- The examination anl .tampllng proving tmia-fmotOl-y, Mr. bonded tt the follow- tni; winter for $100,000, bewlnnlin; work In the spniiK, h1h first work wa.n done In I .No. lunnel at the point where the high-Krade high-Krade left U to find out what happened to the ore, with the Intention of follow -m u If i continued. A few shtfta auf-fU-ed tQ show tho ln was really parol I MQU the tunnel, und at no point in th whole J60 font of I'lale'd work was it I more than six foot away, while tho face of the tunnol whero work slopped was actually In tho vein. Vein Alnuvst Barren. A the vein here ie almoet barren values tt.W and c lonely resembles the wall-iwk in which tie had drifted for the last lt'.o fta no doubt Mr, Plate failed to reahao that ho W In the vein. Had , he, before deserting this tunnel, driven two feei u the rtfOl he would have been in $6 ore, while five feet ahead would have reached high-grade ore. This Is an outstanding example of a great mine being missed bv a. verv small margin. It is Jul auch hasards and great rewards that (IVOfl mining tho fascination no other Industry possesses. When the first work showed beyond a doubt the real direction of the ore-body, ore-body, nothing more was done there, A cross-cut was started about sixty feet farther In, and reached the ore in six feet. Plate's twelve-foot cross-cut was extended about thirty feet. After driving each of these crosscuts Into good ore for nearly forty feet, without reaching the otner wall. Nelll decided to start a crosscut cross-cut from tho face where Plate had quit, and also to drive ahead a further oOO feei to get under the last of the series of open cuts, which exposes the ore shoot on th? surface and shows It to have a width of from 100 to 150 feet This crosscut. No. S, showed good milling ore tho first round; at fifteen feet, high-grade came in and stayed the full length of the cut. It was driven eighty-two feet without reaching the hanging wall; a cut on the surface directly above shows fully forty feet of good ore yet to be cut For some distance the full width gave values of several hundred dollars per ton In gold and silver, while the average for the entire en-tire eighty-two feet Is better than $55. Crosscut Opens Up Rich Ore. The face of the main tunnel was swung a little to the right and driven ahead. In four feet, ore running over $125 per ton showed up on the right-hand side; at ten feet there was a full face of ore. showing considerable native and ruby silver sil-ver which gave values of $153 per ton. This tunnel has since been driven about ISO feel farther and with the exception of about thirty feet, when passing through some almos: barren ground, the full width of the tunnel has been In high-grade high-grade ore, averaging several ijundred dollars dol-lars per ton. In the block of ground S00 feet long and fully 100 feet wide as proved by surface-cut and underground work and from tne surface to the present level, a tonnage ton-nage of at leas: 1. 000. 000 can be safely estimated with a gold and silver content of $30 per ton. making a total of $30,000,-000. $30,000,-000. A thorough sampling of all the present pres-ent workings and openings gives an average aver-age value cf well over $30 per ton. As the ore-shoot Is bigger, stronger and far richer in the tunnel than on the surface, sur-face, it is safe to assume it will continue for at least fifty feet below the present workings. In that event and any engineer en-gineer familiar with this ore body would concede that much a further $10,000,000 will be added to the total Great Mine Made in Two Years. It remained for R. K. Neil! to realize the possibilities dimly disclosed by W. J. Rolfe after others had failed and his grea; success is in a large measure due to his good mining judgment and his policy pol-icy of staying with the ore whenever possible. pos-sible. Such phenomenal results after little lit-tle more than two years' operations have been rarely, if ever, achieved before, even In mining, certainly in no other business. Associated with R. K. N"ell! of Spokane in this unusually successful venture were R. W Wood and A. B. Trltea of Fernie. B. C-, and they are now with W. R. Wilson Wil-son of Fernie the fortunate owners of this Ideal mine. The successful development of the Premier naturaily caused renewed activity activ-ity and Interest, which resulted in the discovery of several new ore bodies of the same character in different parts cf the mineral belt- These showings have all the earmarks of mines to a superlative superla-tive degree, so far as the surface is concerned. con-cerned. In some cases ihe surface exposures ex-posures are bigger than those of the Premier Pre-mier with the values fully as good. |