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Show WALKER COPPER LARGE ORE BODY Salt Lake, Jan. 11, Reports received receiv-ed yesterday by the local officials of the Walker Copper Mining company, the property of which is located in Plumas county, Cal., are to the effect, that the ore body opened up recently in the crosscut from the drift off the main shaft promises to become a bonanza. bon-anza. Reports received prior to those received yesterday were to the effect ef-fect that the ore body has been open ed up in the crosscut for a distance of sixteen feet. It was believed when that report was sent out, that the extreme limit cf the ore body at that point had been reached. The engineer in the employ of local interests returned from the property yesterday with the information informa-tion that the east breast of the crosscut cross-cut had been continued and that tho ore body measured, at the time he left the property, twenty-two feet in width, with the ore showing strong in breast. This ore body, the values of which are in copper principally, has been developed de-veloped on the sixty-five foot level by drifting along the fissure containing the ore 'for a distance of 125 feet from the shaft. It was at that point that .the crosscuts to tho east and west were started for the purpose of de- monstrating the width of the ore body at that point. The objective of the drift on the sixty-flve-foot level Is to reach the territory ter-ritory undorlying tho large Iron blowout blow-out that shows on the surface. There is still in the neighborhood of 450 feet of driving to be done before that point is reached. It is in that section of the ground, however, that the local officials expect to open the larger ore body. The main shaft is now down 125 feet. On the lower level a distance of forty-five feet has been driven, to the north, all in ore, and a distance of twenty-five feet has been driven to the south, all in ore. According to the engineer who returned yesterday, there is no sign of the ore body pinching pinch-ing out. To determine more quickly the depth of the ore body, John F. Cowan, who is operating the property, is making arrangements to do some 300 feet of diamond drilling. This will be done below the present lowest level of the property. |
