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Show - t NEVADA-DOUGLAS - Manager W. 0. Orem, who has just returned from a several weeks' stay at Yerington, Nev., examining the property and preparing for further operations of the Nevada Douglas Copper Cop-per r eompany, has made . an extended report for stockholders, in which he says that the situation there is most satisfactory in every respect. . JWhlle at the mines," he said, "I let a contract to drive our deep tunnel tun-nel two shifts daily. This tunnel will be in a well-mineralized zone within the next 150 feet. The. mineralization at this point is about 500 feet wide, j and although we have numerous cuts and . exposures of outcrops, we get a great deal of high grade ore throughout through-out the eatire area. In this part of the mine is the Double Ess shaft. This shaft is about 600 feet from the mouth of the deep tunnel. The shaft at this time is in what appears to be a permanent perma-nent zone of sulphides. Tbe last average aver-age sample that we got runs 12.85 per eent copper. Selected samples run much higher than this. "We also have a splendid showing in what is known as the lower pit, situated sit-uated at the base of the mountain, still lower than tbe mouth of our deep tunnel. "A little later we will start a double compartment shaft to sink on the ore at this point and open up the ore bodies encountered in the tunnel at lower levels by drift from this shaft. " The ore taken out of this . shaft has been running from 10 per cent to 23 per cent copper, and our samples show an average of 20 per cent - "The average of the Double Ess shaft, exclusive, of specimen ore, as shown by our samples, is 4.5 per cent copper. "While not getting any better average values from the Amalgamated shaft than from other parts of the mine, this, to my mind, looks fully as promising as any other part of the property. "Tbe'entire shaft is in vein matter averaging 5.5 per cent copper. There is a Targe amount of iron .and some very high grade ore mixed, in it. We have neither wall inside and from the general indications it seems that the deposit at this point must be large. "The Pearse drift has been continued contin-ued 110 feet, and the average samples taken run 4.6 per cent. "The Sunlight shaft is down thirty-five thirty-five feet and averages 3.3 per cent. I think we 'have two acres of ground im-mediatelv im-mediatelv adiacent to the Sunlight that will average this much in value for a hundred feet in depth. The Sunlight Sun-light shaft being on the lower portion of the hill, has practically demonstrated demon-strated the value to go down to this depth. I think there will be a safe profit of $5 per ton on this ore. "We have a mechanical engineer on the ground from the traction engine factory who will report to his company on the condition of the road over which we will have to haul ore and freight. If this report is satisfactory, we will put in a traction engine and a train of wagons with a hauling ca- Sacity of from fifty to 100 tons of ore aily." |