Show REPORTS FAVORABLY ON NELSON QUEEN Should Develop Into Paying Property Says Prof 0 O. A. A Palmer T TWO O DISTINCT FISSURES I Compares Formations AVI Hi o of I II BIS I Mines at nt Park q Cop CIty Cop Cop Copper JI per r at nL Depth Professor ProCessor O 0 A A. Palmer geologist ap and l mining has Just com com- I pl te what may ho he terme termed a a. cold cold- blooded examination of or the tho Nel Nelson Nelson- on- on Qu Queen cn Consolidated Copper company's property in tho E Elkhorn khorn district east ast of Park jark City tho the result of which is 19 highly gratifying to 10 the the officers and stockholders ers of oC the tho company On account of oC th El Elkhorn horn 11 being a 1 comparatively comparatively com om- unknown and wholly un an boomed district considerable lc nerve as well as capital Is required to develop de do- a mine there and the cers Ind directors of ot tho the Queen Nelson-Queen wanted authoritative reassurance as asto asto asto to the tho indications of or permanence In Inthe Inthe Inthe the ore bodies already alread encountered as aswell aswell aswell well as of oC the presence of or even cn more extensive ore oro bodies at depth Mr Ir Palmer who is Ls a recognized authority upon ulion mineralogy and especially espe espe- dall daily upon allan ore occurrences in ii Ip th the Park City region does not h hesitate to express ex ox- press pres a a. favorable opinion upon both these counts In summing up the conditions which he encountered at atthe atthe the time property ho says These conditions seem to me to contain all t that at Is Is essential Is j in connection connection connection tion with Intelligent mining Jo o pro pro- ducq duca a paying I Mr Ir Palmer took m many n samples of ore from roni the mine mimic th these e including outcroppings on the surface vein mattei matter matter mat mat- ter tei In iii the tho worl workings and alid ore on the dump and the average assa assay from all these gave ga values amounting to 12 1250 O Oa a ton It is said sal that a a. million tons could coul easil easily be blocked out which would hold to lo this average The average av a as' as crage ass assay of oC the dump gave values of or 25 2550 50 a a. ton Rs lI COpl Copper at nt Depth While Mr Palmer found gold values values values val val- ues fn In all a of his samples with the exception of oC some surface roc rock Ie an and silver sliver in iii most o of them he expresses CS the opinion that the tho Nelson t Queen Nelson will become essentially a copper proposition proposition prop prop- at depth Copper was found in virtually every ever assa assay taken In the course of his formal report Mr 11 Palmer Palmer Pal Pal- I mer says pays So far but two distinct fissures have been observed These have a courso course nearly northeast along and nearly nearh parallel with Murdock hollow on the north flank Oan of oC which they outcrop at times in bol hold bold relief relict while the softer material has been considerably era ly eroded The outcrop outcrop outcrop out out- crop is plainly visible r on th ridges but somewhat obscured in the tho low places by tho the wash from Crom the hills huts I can identify it for a a. length th of oC seven or eight thousand feet From general appearances I am satisfied that there thero are other fissures in this property properly which will be found b by further cross Cu cutting There arc are five tunnels run at points along Murdock hollow hollo sometimes some times crosscutting the lode lodo and sometimes sometimes some seine times following it making an aggregate aggregate gre as-gre- gate of or 1500 1100 feet CeeL Near the tho northeast northeast northeast north north- east end of or tho thorn Spot Cash claim a double compartment shaft shaH has been sunk two hundred feet and from It Ita Ita ita a drift has been run Iun about ninety feet e t to what I believe I is the lode locle This drift should be bo continued as a crosscut to tap other fissures that ma may exist there The shaft Is well timbered timbered tim tim- b and has a pump sufficient for Cor present Sent depth Th There 1 Is al also o a n. small steam hoist good for at least GOO feet There laa Isa Isa Is la a good head frame on the tho shaft capable ca ca- pablo pable of oC running a double deck cage Between the the camp camp an and this shaft Is Istine tine of or the main tunnels Js from which a drift has bas been run on th thy i lode Jodo for forit ji J distance of or about abut 4 0 feet A raise exten extends lI from this tunnel to the sur sur- face This raise is wholly In lit an or ore shoot O Other hel Ore Oro Shoots Will AVill I I Ic nc Other ore shoots hoots will be he eloped developed as the mine is opened to greater depth dOlth The Tho ore bodies bo les occur occur occur oc oc- oc- oc cur here as in all lodes In dis- dis lis- lis taut tant shoots and generally the pitch of or the shoot hoot follows ollo the dir direction o or of movement mO of the walls of oC the tIme fis fissure so that when one ono Is known the tho other othe is determined i When hen these theBe teeth facts are arc discovered In I. I any lode Ha Its economical working becomes becomes be be- comes an easy matter The fhe ore sometimes sometimes some some- times extends tt beyond tho the limits of or tn Ute trio fissure o as ali an impregnation of th the wan wall rock which ha has haa been aller altered an and softened b by the chemical action o othe uC of thi th the circulating wat waters rN and ancl to that ex ext extent ox- ox tent t nt of ot course courle becomes a part of or th the lode lolle The Thc so far Car recognized In Inthis inthis this lode e are arc copper load Iron silver and gol gold Judging from Crom rein pres present nt ap appearances appearances ap- ap this will become a copper coppe producing mine maine at depth The gangue gangu of or th the lode Ile I in Is quartz anti and IY fragments b by iron am and lime A t fact ct not to 0 be lo lost t sight ight o oin of oC ofIn in this connection Is Its that hut the sedimentary sedi sedi- c l- l b bode beds dt and lime lime- stones underlie the tho a at sonic forno unknown depth Tho of or tho the fissure at tho time surface loa load loans s stu to tu time the belief heller that it will ho bo found ox cx- tending down into Inlo t there c un underlying beds bells If such slick proves to lo be bo the cost case It Il h Is only presume as It is ht In harmony with past pat experience that at Its Intersection with the Uw home Hmo v beds we may expect to find Ian large oro UlO bod hod- ies les That l such con conditions lUon do clo exist to toIla today today to- to Ila day in Iii the time D Daly ly Went Daly Dah Jud Judge b band and anti Silver Silver- King mines In the adjoining adjoin adJoin- In ing dl district is common common knowledge A. A These assumptions must be taken for whit what they thor are worth to each ach Individual Indi vidual but to m my mind they have havea haea a avery vc very important bearing upon upon thi Hie Iho prospective c value of tim the property properly y e. e |