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Show GET MANGANESE AT BEAVER COPPER COMPANY OFFICIALS THINK BIG BODY OF ORE IS NEAR! According to a letter sent to; stockholders of the Beaver Copper j company, a recent round of holes fired opened 18 inches of manganese, carrying silver and lead values, and the officials state that all indications indica-tions point to the near approach of a big and important body of ore. Manager A. J. McMullen in his letter to the stockholders says: Since the issue of our last letter in January and resuming work at the mine, we have driven the north cross-cut to a point 180 feet from the main drift or to a point 835 feet from the portal of the tunnel. The last round of holes fired broke into 18 inches of manganese, carrying silver and lead values and the conditions con-ditions indicate the approach to a bedding bed-ding which should give us an ore body on the tunnel level. We also did 40 feet of work on the surface of the silver vein and selected sel-ected samples from a point where the vein is eight feet wide and gave returns of 44 ounces of silver, 71.6 per cent lead and $14.60 gold per ton. Tin's is the vein which we expect to develop in the cross-cut on the tunnel level, at a depth of 360 feot We also sank a sub-winze on the No. 2 cross-break on the 100 foot level of the main winze at 255 feet under the surface to determine the pitch of the ore at this point where the low grade ore has been developed for 50 feet in length and almost 20 feet in width. On this level some very high grade ore has been developed develop-ed and with continued sinking of the main winze and the development of each 100 foot level as sinking progresses pro-gresses the required depth will give, a concentration of values under the leached zone that will give us a large and productive mine of very rich ore. The winze will now be sunk to the 355 foot level, all arrangements having hav-ing been made to that end. The sale of the copper ground was concluded, for which (with the exception excep-tion of obtaining some ready money for other operations) we are very well pleased. We have this date received a bid on shipping ore from one block of copper easily obtained that should net us almost as much as the sale would have netted us. The copper ground is too far distant dis-tant from our compressor plant for the practical use of this plant in the copper operations and we propose to install an additional small compressor plant on the coper. Western Mineral Survey. |
