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Show Pacific Strike I Makes Good Company Has Big Body of High Grade Lead-Silver Ore and Ten Inches of Copper Glance, Running High in Copper and Over 500 Ounces of Silver per Ton. H in our lust Issue we lind unconflnn-Hed unconflnn-Hed reports of n rich strike In the l'u-H l'u-H clflr mine, that Home of the miners thought would Bo fabulously high In H diver, ns It was thought to be giny H copper- The strike, however, proved B to bo what minors cnll copper glance, H which while running high In copper, H doe." not carry so much silver as gray I copper To all appearances the rock looks Hko galenn ore to the uninitiated H but the red streak, when scratched I with n knife betrays Its copper con-H con-H tents. H Charles Doollttlc, who owns the heaviest Interest In the pioperty, next B to I'clcr Miller, wns highly elated over I the new strike and says that It Is the H biggest thing opened In the canyon H In years. According to his report H from the mine the miners have cross-Halt cross-Halt the fissure from a drift off the H lower tur.nel. showing 18 feet of ore, H the Inst 14 Inches of which Is along H the hanging wall and carries GOO otin-B otin-B cos In silver. H The tunnel Is In over 1,000 feet and H was driven to cntch the vein that was H opened up by the old workings sevcr-Hal sevcr-Hal hundred feet higher up. A drift M was run ofT the tunnel level In foliow-Hlng foliow-Hlng the fissure. Within a short dls-tancc dls-tancc the fissure was found to have B faulted, the throw being nbout 2r. feet. Bwhcn the fissure wns again encount-rrcd encount-rrcd and followed n porphyry dlko m crosscut the vein and beyond this the ore was picked up again. This ore dlff-H dlff-H or8 from that which has been encount- ei ed In the past Innsmuch as It entries n good percentage of copper. The presence of the porphyry is declared most encouraging. In erosscuttlng from the foot wall to the hanging wall side IS feet of ore was cut. Since cutting the fissure with the 1040 foot tunnel nbout one year ago, general manager. Peter Miller has hml his miners drifting on the vein making upraises, running crosscuts nnd blocking out the ore, to deteunlne Its extent nnd mnklng n mine out of the prospect. His work has now demonstrated dem-onstrated the Pacific to be ono of the big mines of the state nnd the biggest yet opened In this canyon. In doing the development work, hundreds of tons of high grade ore, worth over $3,000 per car, have been broken down but only n part of whlcli has been sent to the smelter. Commencing Mondny, teams will begin limiting tho oro dowr the canyon nnd relieve tho eonjested condition of the ore bins and drifts Many bodies of hgh grade ore have been opened up, so thnt hereafter there will be no cessation In oro ship ments Indefinitely. Many thousands of tons of ore of milling grade, have been opened u In drifting the C00 feet on the big vein In fact practically all of the big fissure fis-sure Is filled witli either shipping or milling ore. Work on tlm mill will be commenced In the nenr future, and soon ns It begins turning out concentrates concen-trates the output of the mine will li-more li-more than doubled. |
