Show I TjI MINES AND MINING j I EDITED BY F. F W. W SPRAGUE v i RICH SULPHIDE ORE OREIN IN SOUTH COLUMBUS Drift rif From Froni Lower Tunnel t Breaks Into Massive Body Ii of Shipping Grade I BIGGEST FIND YET MADE v Encountered at J Junction unction of I Cross Fissure Fissure With Con Con- o i tact Vel tact Veins 1 v L i f t I That a massive e bod body of oC sulphide 1 has hait been broken Into in inI shipping ore hal I tie South Columbus lower tunnel at te b Mana- Mana Alia Uta was yesterday admitted by et cr Tony Jacobson It I hod lied l known own i roi lot several da days f b by a i few OW that thin thing ora o out of the tho ordinary had been encountered In the mine but the man man- of con- con his pursuing declined e to give ve out tut any i details whatever until enough h work er should hould 18 have Jave been dope done to pro c that that the te find was not mer merely ly a 1 stray bunch I o 01 ore lUr Mr Jacob on Oven even on c yesterday white I admitting that tho was unquestionably the tho bluest biggest thing Yet yot ot In South Columbus groUnd gro yot yet protested that It it- hould be le oP opened ned Curth further fur Cur th ther r before heralding It to th the thc world word wordA A as an An assured permanent body ody of high high- grade Th Tho ore trIkO was made made in what what- Is known as UK tho cast crosscut from the th lower tunnel about lt 1000 f et tron front from drift which the tho h tunnels tunnel's tunnels tunnels' portal Tho was being thO belog run on tho contact between two kinds of or limestone broko brolo suddenly sudden sudden- ly ty into the tha solid oId sulphide or ore It being at tho In intersection of ot a across across evidently cross cros ont fissure sure ot with the contact vein tle While t of ot cour course e no l idea en of ot tho dimensions dimen dimen- pious of ot the oro ore body can cn yet et bo ho f gained I tho the drift la is now In ore ora upon all ll sides aides Permanency Is 15 Indicated Is IB Isone Isone The character of ot the self Itself one of ot tho the best possible indications of ot permanency while all oU of ot to the geological geo gee logical conditions aro arc altogether 1 favorable favor favor- able ble Tho The ore is Js about bout as heavy material material ma ma- ml- ml aa as Is Js o over eer r taken from tho the ground round a streaked It Js Is a 1 rich looking sulphide 1 with n black copper coppal and crr carrying good wih In silver siver and lead led A bo boulder l r of or It I the size also ot ofa oZa a la largo large desK which rolled from the face fco CICO of or tho the drift had to bo be shot to pl pieces to be e han ban dIed It It made mado three good mine carloads cr car car- loads load the cars car being of or pound pounds capacity c each ch Another boulder lC less than twice the t-le size sizo of ot a mans man's nS nl head which was sent down town to tho the company companY's s o tl cs weighs 10 pounds end and tho the ordinary or or- Unary man attempting to lift It H. it would declare that It was glued Clued to tho the floor One of or the beauties beautes of or the find is that It Is In fn position to be mined cheaply cheap cheap- ly I- and and with the tho least possible prepa prepa- ration There is from to feet teet raton of ot backs on the ore are which can cn be snaked out o of tho the tunnel 3 at t a rate which should make malte pOI possible tile the breakIng break- break J frig Ing of or Alta AHa whipping shipping records Whether or er It Is a u porton portion of oC the ore bod body opened In the Alta Ala tunnel abO above and beyond or an entirely new and Independent Independent Inde Indo II mined pendent body remains to bo bo be deter deter- I |