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Show illE TO BE IRE8 ; Large Cave, Natural Show Place, Opened Up in F,arly Days of Camp. Immense Body of Soft Ore With High Grade Values Found in Cavern. 'I hj Iirl.L.tol mine:-!, lorutrd on r.;.e .'.uiiUi-mi .'.uiiUi-mi Htrl-i of the J.tckr.ibh.t runc, will he tt.al.ly op'.f;itd tlil: wint'-r, acron-Iiny t ' Ha in 'I'. CJoOijr-, w l.o r -;'; nt ly -visited Clio v;t rloua pruperLies, a thfj Pioctie At thft prfMrnt limn a force of right ; ! i lii':i-H is emploi ed u m ir r ground, under t lie active HiipL-rviion of Superintendent John U. Cook, weil-known IMoclift mining operator, and, although no effort will be iiiiide to forc production until spring, fatilpnientb will go forward uteadlly to the Halt I-iku hinelterfi from tills development work. dfHplt e the present untavorable Uier romllt ions. Ahuut ten tons of medium grade Hllver- , copper cm Ih ..dug produced daily. A' M 1'i-iik ( high- grade malachite ore recently re-cently enconntercd adjacent to the old Nov. bonanza winze us.s.iyuil '' per cent coii per anil 10ti ounces in silver. fl'h la high -gr.i de oro hdng mixed with the run of mine and in raising the grade of the recent nil I pmeu ts. The last car, on u h Ich ret urns were received last week, asuayed I o.4 ounces In silver, 4 per cent copper, the analysis showing only -d.4 per cent Insoluble, the combined Iron, manganese, and H me being ..'1.4 per cent, thus making a t'avorablo smelling content. Reserves Increase. Mr. (iodbo says that additional ore is being added to the reserves exposed and that the. general mine conditions are most favorable. Though the principal production produc-tion comes from t tie fissures rmining through the property, development work has lately detnonstra led large beds making mak-ing off from t hese fissures. These beds a re assoclat ed with the permeable lime and are Impregnations from the main bodies adjacent to t lie fissures. It seems ! ii lie pro ba hie that a large tonnage of whipping silver-copper ore will be extracted extract-ed from t heso beds, which at latest advices ad-vices seem likely to prove extensive. The principal work is now being done on the first, second and third levels of the May Pay .sector, in what is known as the May bay fissure system, adjacent to the old cave, which was a real show place for visitors in the early days. The beautiful white incrustations, stained with green and blue carbonates of copper, impressed im-pressed all those who were fortunate enough to view this interesting natural phenomenon. This cave was later mined, a.s the walls were composed of high-grade ore. the white crystallized time incrustation incrus-tation Just forming :i coating in the open fissure territory. At the present time all this work is being done through tho Gypsy shaft, and the management plans to run an adit from the May Pay territory to the sur-fact' sur-fact' to connect with the receiving bins at the tramway terminal and thus more economically extract the ores from the May I ay fissure system, which are apparently ap-parently Improving in grade and quantity. The early history of the Bristol district dis-trict is one of the interesting chapters of the west. The Cave mine was located by Charles Row during 1S70. who also located the May Pay and Tempest during tho following year. Immense Cave Struck. The first important strike in the Bristol Bris-tol district was made in the spring of In h big natural cave in the mining claim prophetically mimed the Cave, where an immense body of soft ore was uncovered, measuring twelve feet high above tho floor of the drift and twenty feet wide, assying o75 ounces in silver per ton, S per cent lead and IS per cent copper. J'Vom this and other bonanzas found on his property about $1,000,OOU in three or four years was taken. The total production ot" the Bristol properties prop-erties in ihe early days was about j:U09,-000. j:U09,-000. During the palmy davs UUO miners and teamsters were said to have been regularly employed at the Bristol. A town-sito town-sito was laid out and rapidlv settled up and the camp Mas served bv two daily stages. Alter Ardway left the camp suffered suf-fered various, vicissitudes under successive succes-sive ownerships and managements Purlng the year 1913 considerable work M-as done m the upper levels and during May of that year a body of high-grade silver-copper ore was found 130 feet from the shaft on the 500-foot level. An aerial tramway was planned and ordered, and during the latter part of the year a large crew ol" men was employed, but at the end of the year the management became involved in-volved in financial difficulties and the properties passed into the hands of receivers, re-ceivers, later being acauired by the Uvada Copper Mining company of Salt Lake. Under the businesslike administration of F. C. Richmond, assisted by M. M. Johnson John-son as consulting engineer, the Uvada Copper Mining company made a most I creditable record of production, which is estimated from bullion tax statements ut close to $-50,000, from which dividends were paid. |