Show turn Opo hongo over toLes sees company suspends work for the present but will prospect virgin ground in near future HE force of men which has been THE at work in the Opo hongo mine was laid off last tuesday and all of the old workings of the pro perty will now be turned over to lessees several weeks ago the opo hongo management leased that part of the mine which is between the tunnel I 1 level el and the 50 1 61 re alv A taming the e and nd 0 levels I 1 Is upon rabIe which co considerable side oredas at that time er eari ased the e company amt a men having s nee made madea I 1 prel pretty tty thorough clean up of the there tw two levels the manage management ent t elded dd that it would be alivis ible ble to 0 extend te the leasing system t ti t that a it adart part of the property at the present besent time the opo hongo ongo company s doing no 4 nork ork but supt bupt samuel x states that within a week he mill have a small force busy in the upper workings reached from the main tunnel level the revenue derived from the leasing system should be sufficient to carry on an energetic campaign of prospecting in some of the Opo hongo 0 s virgin tern terri tory 71 the first ore taken from the opo h hongo ongo 9 ground round was mined during the time that the property was being worked through the shaft of the black jack company william hat field the manager and principal owner of the company a 9 stock sue ceedee in opening a nice body of 0 copper ore without the expenditure of a very large sum of money the mine was worked successfully from the back black jack side and later ar range ments were made whereby de work could be handled through the gold chain the ore body was encountered a short dis tance below the main tunnel level and followed clear through to the the best values being found above the the work on the level failed to disclose the point at which the ore makes to greater depth ithe the vein was pretty thor hughly prospected at that depth but the ore was of a low grade the richer ore corn com ng in but small de posits the Opo hongo management is still of the op n on that deep mining will result in the open ng of new ore de posits but for the present the fi fl nan bances nances ces will not permit any eapen sive prospecting and then there is a most promis ns piece of ground above the main tunnel wh ch man ager hatfield atfield II has ha always been acx ious to develop |