MINEBK00562

• County: San Juan
• Document: Manager
• Suffix: A

During the past year we h¢ve steadily pushed No. 7 level and other Sevelopment work under tho geu•
m•al plmr of oponing-the IIcnrietta at great depth anS insuring sufaty and continnone operation during the
winter months.
The development work on the mining claims consists of about ouc mile of underground workings.
'1'ho principal tuunela are:
No. 1- 305 feet in depth.
No. 2- G00 feet in depth.
No. 3- 802 fcch in deptL.
No. 7-2000 feet in depth.
No. 10- 300 feet in depth.
Levels Nos. 1, 2 and 3 are all connected with upraises, each nprnise ]roving heavily timbered and lined ore
chutee and ladder ways.
The former records of this section of the mine give a complete record of hind and quantities of ore
lonnd iu these levels.
After due considerntiou the concludes to do the most oP our work on the No. 7 level which would open
up the ore bodies 400 feet lower thmr the deepest workings in No. 3. We have worked night and day for
the past Tifteen months and have completes 2000 feet o£ work on this level alone. The results have proven
very satisfnetory. After driving 615 feet w•e enconntercd a very ]urge vein of quartz rumting nt nenely
right angles to the course of tunnel and carrying gold, silver and leas. 1Ve coutiuues cross-cutting this
vein fox 11U feet. At mre place we SriPteS on the vein Pm• 85 feet mul found Lhe same character of oro
throughout, proving it to contain muesivo bodies of ore. 'phis we caller the Surprise vein, ae it was so cov-
erer with debris and forest tiuther ott the surface that it huS never been discovered. Since our discovery
'phe Mammoth Tunnol Company has oponed this emus vein nbeuC ouc-half milo farther north.
Continuing No. 7 lovcl to a distnnco of 1115 YeeC, tvo out rho Hmu•icttn vein and ut this point it was
20 feet in width, containing mostly milling m•e bah some escepCionnlly fine snmlting ore.
At 1416 feet we enconntm•es a body of snmlCiug oro, 1'ran two to Tour feet in lhiclcness nnS 1G0 feet iu
]mrgWt accompanying the milling ore. 'phis body of ora is n now flnS. 16 is located sumo 200 feat north
oP any ore body found in No. 2 ]ovcl, Aftor passing through this ora bony u•e had milling ore for about
100 feet in longth whoa wo ancounterad n bony of 3 to 5 EeoC in thickness of vary heavy emaltiug oro. The
smelting oro noceseaxily tulmn mrt is pilos by itself on the damp nt Lho mouth oP tha tunnol to await rho
completion of the trmn-lino
This last body of oro is uhnost Sitnetly uuscr rho llrst oro found iu 'No. 3 ]ovcl and 400 feot bolow iC.
binding it at this sopth is proof that it is Cho snma ora busy axtonding Yrmn No. 2 Uo No. 7, ans Ohnt it
will furnish many thous¢nS torte of smelling arc nail gunrnnlca n elundy run for tha smaller Erma this som•co
alone.
'1'ho Olivar IteSuction Cmnpuny's h•pviwny Prmu Cho mmdh of ATO. 7 huuwl to tha rnihvny and mill-situ
can ba complaCcd by the tlmo Cho ammoahiars oro maSo beWvoon No• 7 nnS No. 2 lovals nod Cho oro randy
to ntovo.
Thu next 600 fooC of Imtgllr on this lovel shoals slow np lnrgm• busies of mro than whnh wo huvo yot
found, us wo havo fho oro nhovo and huvo proved thuC i6 guar down. No• 10 ]oust ie in 300 loot nns will ant
the vain 900 EeoC below Cbo level ATa. 7. Wo havo not bemt pnnhing it ns tea hnva enough oro iu lho upper
workings to lusC for sovm•nl yom•e.
`17ro smoltar had n vm•y succesxful ran Inst season, and with tha m•a now in xigbt thm•u ix rcnsmt to bu-
liovo Chnt tva mtn onrn hu•go proflhx Ubix saneou lord for yams to umno, '.I'ho proviso of custom oro is nlsu
Ilrmar thou it hna ovar hcon boforc nod givos ndditloonl nseurnuno in anso 11. should ba lmnul ilesiruble to
Udco asvuntago of it• ~ HexpacCfupy Yours,
1P. C. I{LNDRICI{, ~llunapar.
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