Show MINES AND MINING J EDITED BY F. F W. W SPRAGUE l IMPORTANT ANT CHANGE IN WABASH CROSSCUT Pent Up Water Released Brings Out Pieces of Very Rich Ore LOOKS LIKE BIG BODY NEAR Extent Cannot Be 80 Determined Until Water Is Drained Off Of An interesting change chane e has haM taken at the Wabash mine Just bebra he- he toro bra foro tho the night shift came camo camp off oct duly dil morning monIng n. n n big bit round of oC holes wa was blasted In Iho to crosscut which Is being driven from tho the face race of or the drift drifton on un tho ho bI big vein The he crosscut crout hal had boon bonn for tor 60 CO feet cot In Iii pure pur gypsum This blast brol through tho gypsum m. m bringing an un chun change e of or formation forma forma- Ion tion and o opening a flow low of oC water of or about ton oo 0 gallons a H. minute tho the water water- coming in a solid stream tream from a round bob hole holo In the fare face ce Tho water brou brought ht out a S 01 I i pieces of vcr CI rich ore ore- oro sonic oine of or them wf weighIng several e pounds Tho The or ore Ol I Is precisely the tho same arne character as M that which ha haJ he boon n found In various places in Ih tho vein Colonel TI sYB says that the lie J Indication alons arc are certainly tho lie lio hoft yet for Cor or a large larEr solid bod body bedy of ore r The flow of water watt tho the um and ad the tho thE new formation which jR Js broken limo Hmo and u porphyry highly mineralized form orm a combination of or good Indications for Cor an au I ore oro hod body Work ok ha has ha been stopped In II the crow crow- out to permit tho the water rater to drain off but Jl it J will 11 be hr resumed Just as us oon as asit Ia II it I 1 l regarded a safe place for or men to work ork At tl tub thin time the drift nu near tho the face faco Is Js two thirds two filled fied with wih dirt and aJI debris and anI tho the rich oro era brought out cult by the water tol tolls toll all dl that la Is 11 known wn lit of what lies Ics That more onI ore oro I In Is there Is 11 certain liow how how much of It Itt t there rc ma may be hc to bo ho deter mined Colonel thinks s It I may maybe maybo b be bo a week or ten Inn lIn days f s before tho the work can cn bo be taken up there again iga Iii Good York Work rho Tho work accomplished h r since the big bIg v oln ln was 8 n brett last t Ji January n Un ry t tho Iho Ii o c said MId ild compiles K feet of drifting on 01 tho the vein GOO 00 feet tet of crosscutting on the the level Ic of or tho the drift cro crosscut tins the vein ven twice twIce twIce-an an upraise of oC 1 11 Ii feel and 60 61 feet fert of or o in lii 11 the upraise The drifting drift drift- jn ing has han Ic been n on OH the of ot the vein following following- the tho hanging wall wal thi and there has bias lia been more morl or 01 lc loss Ics oro ore the tho entire distance The fu crosscut In lii which tho the chan change e just jutt described has taken laco has b been en driven n dri 11 1 feet fr from 1 the face faco of or tho ho drift through gra gray parry pal lime and the tho puro purl The drift I is still ti being pushed on ill Oi th the tho c hanIn hanging wall wal oC of the vein with wih con conditions ta for encountering an H ore hotly body tho the upraise also is 15 In Ina ina a good ore making country The rhe maui main mall level upon which the work wok i is being dono is about 1300 feet vertically from ron tho thio surface k says frays aR that ho lie wants want stockholders of oC the Wabash abash company to know just what conditions In iii tho the property arc lie le is il becoming more moro confident every Cl day that a mine wilt will willbe wi be made but he wants otherl In Interested Interested In- In to know the exact situation ll and jud Judge e for fr themselves He lie doesn't claim caim to have a mine yet ct hut hl his ex experience ox- ox tells him that the tue con conditions he has encountered can not riot exist without wih- wih with out there thEre heln being extensive o ore oro bodies somewhere in 11 tho vicinity |