Ogden Daily Standard | 1910-02-07 | Page 2 | Startling Values in Copper Acres

STARTLING VALUES IN COPPER ACRES Bait Lake, Feb. 6. Assay returns received yesterday by James T. Hammond Ham-mond from what is presumed to be an average sample of the entire bottom of tbe winze In the Copper Acres property, in Humboldt county, Nevada, Neva-da, show values of 41.61 per cent copper cop-per and 22 2 ounces in silver. The winze has been sunk about twonty-flvo leet below the tunuel which was driven to cut the ledge, the vertical depth from the surface being be-ing something more than 125 feet. Both in a short drift sent In near the surface and in the crosscut tunnel tun-nel have been exposed in the forty-foot forty-foot ledge a streak of five and six feet of high-grade ore, generally run-niojg run-niojg around 20 per cent copper. Recently Re-cently tbe foreman who Is in charge of assessment work wrote that sulphides were coming into tfce winze, which Is being Bunk on tbe high-grade ore. and that the ore was looking particularly good. He w as asked to send in an average av-erage fample of the face of ore. He took a sample. Quartered it on the ground and sent In one of the quarters, quar-ters, from which the assay was taken. Ho did not give details of the taking of the sample, but it is taken for grnnted that ho complied with directions direc-tions - Assuming that it is a fair sample of the five feet of ore, and considering consider-ing that it was taken where is taking place the change from oxidized ore io sulphide which the sample plainly plain-ly showed the showjng Is a remarkably remark-ably one WTillc surprising results have from the surface down attended the meager development of tho property prop-erty which has been accomplished, this is by far the most surprising result re-sult of all. s , Aside from tho five and six . feet of high-grade ore, the great ledge carries fifteen feet and twenty feel of ore which as far as explored shows, average aver-age values around 8 per cent copper cop-per and ten and fifteen ounces in sil- I On account of its unusual surface showing, the property attracted not a little attention when the present own-erg own-erg began working it more than two years ago. Plans bad been made to start shipping, along with more extensive exten-sive development, when the plans were spoiled by the panic and tho accompanying accom-panying slump In the pric? of copper. Since that time only assessment work ' has been done.'