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V Un das symbolsns suivants apparaftra sur la darniira imaga da chaqua microficha, salon la cas: la symbola -^ signifia "A SUIVRE". la symbola V aignifia "FIN". It toba d Ptto s tha Las cartas, planchaa. tablaaux. ate. pauvant Atra fllmis A das taux da reduction diff Grants. Lorsqua la documaht ast trop grand pour Atra raproduit an un aaul cllchi. il ast film* A pjartir da I'angla supiriaur gaucha, da gaucha i droita, •i da haut an baa. •n pranant la nombra d'imagas nicassaira. Las diagrammas suivants illustrant la mithoda. •i^ 8 r i-'V ,* w \ ■ 11 LAI\E OF THE WOODS \ •■■ w k> LNITKD STATKS OIKICK OK Till. NINO MINING COMPANY I'i %■ 95 Krc fi ■ - It.- i 1 ■ 1 < , ■' ' 8l2 P A -1 . A ■ 1' r ^- * b ■■• 1 - . , EGr' TMI HArTHIWt-NOnTHRUP CO., ■UFFALO, N. V. J-,. • '.4ai&',ii^''iL^\ik'^-.v^ ' ■■■■ ,;...,:. ,^.,:\: -..k'^ , -., ;.v„i ., ^ •■; -.;:'. .-i ' '''■>ft'■''^r•^:■ ■;-*■ ., ' The Nino Mining Company, Limited. " t \ NO PKRSONAL LIABILITY. IIF.AD Ori'ICK: 95 Freehold Building, Toronto, Ontario. UNITED STATES OFFICE: 8i2 Prudential Building, Buffalo, N. Y. ■'1 Authorized Capital, $1,000,000. Par X'alue of Shares, ijti.oo each. / OFFICKRS. l'r-snici,l. ,--^ WILLIAM CHAPLIN. / I'tcc-I'rcyt ami d^i^rp7. THOMAS W. (iLKASON. »7>.<,.&fev^^ ... CII.XKLKS li. WOKTHAM. DIRECTORS. WILLIAM CHAPLIN. PresicU-nt Woll.nd \al..M|.. Co., .St. Cath.irin's. Out. lAMFS D. CHAPLIX Manufacturer. St. ttathari^.s. ARTHUR SCHOKLLKOPF. President Power City Battle, Secretary ^nd Treasurer Nia^-ara Falls Hydraulic Po^yer & Ml^. Co.. Nia^jara Falls. N. V. WM. B. \VU LARD. Pre.sident Fren.ont Marhle Co. ol Colorado, Hartford,. Con;i. BENJ. VV^ G..\LLUP, A.ssistant Cashier Firs, National Bank, and Assistant Treasurer People's ^Savings Bank. Woonsocket. R. L "■ '^''f:.'^-^'^D WILLIAMS, Vice President of The J. B VVdhams Co., Glastonbury, Conn. CHARLKS B. WORTHAM. President Niagara Countv Irn»fat,on & Water Supply Co.. Buffalo. N. V. DEXTKR D'K. POTTER, Real Estate, St. Catharines: TMOM .\S W . GLEA.SON. Fir.ancial A.a-nt, Buffalo. SOLICITORS. JAMES B. OBRIAN, J. B().\RDM.\N SCOVELL. Toronto. Ont. Buffalo. N. V. BANKERS. COLUMBIA N.VTIONAL BANK. . , Buffalo. N Y IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA. Rat Portage, Ont. -«" THE NINO MINING COMPANY, LIMITED. NO PERSOXAL UABIIJTY. The Nino Mining Company, Limited, is a corporation orj^anized un.ier a charter*from the Province of Ontario. It has taken over, and is opcratnig, the Nino Mine on mining locations J. E. S., 93, and J. E. S., no, in the Deer Lake District, Lake of the Woods, about sixty-five - njiles from Rat Portage. This remarkable property was discovered only a short time ago ; but sufficient development work has already been done upon it to demon- strate the permanence and character of one of the many large veins, and to confirm the good unpression made by the surface showings. LOCATION. The Deer Lake Country, in which the Nino Mnie IS situated, is a part of the Lake of- the Woods District of Western Ontario, which comprises several thousand square miles of territory between the western end of Lake Superior and the Manitoba boundary. This tract of country is very much broken, although without any points of great elevatwrtu and the depressions filled with water coiippe a net work of navigable lakes which se^e'as water- highways to all parts of the xlistrict. It is asserted, upon good authority, that there are more than 14,000 islands in the Uke of the Woods Jjroper, and it is probable that the num- ber of small connecting laRes in the mainland adjoining is even greater. By this means nature has provided transportation facilities to most parts of the district of a most economical character, which may be still further extended \ il ' B 1 ■ ^ v,- ^•' .- "I , . / . (irtincially at very ^malj exjjense. The country is well woo(leerations of mining and milling can be car- ried on fis cheaply in this district as in any country where quartz mining is done on ore , bodies of ^ equal extent. I'nder present condi- tions, all costs can be covered by $2.50 jjer ton, which should be still further reduced as condi- tions become more settled. « The n« erty lies „ one of.tl regular s nav^atic winter. Many 1 present .s the. riche I.ake of that, the, neighbor the winte DEER L.\KE COUNTRY. ■ The Detr Lake Country is reached through Rat Portage, a city of 7,000 people, which is • the distributing center for the Lake of the . Woods District. It is situated gn the Canadian Pacific Railroad, about forty hours ride from Montreal and thirtysix hours from Toronto, without change of cars. A rtew line of railway, known as the Ontario & Rainy kiver Railway, is now lieing built through the central and .southern part of the jjistrict, which will greatly improve transportation facilities. / The neighborhood in which the Nino' prop- erty lies is of recent discovery, but is already „ one of the most active in the district, havinj; rej^la'r steamboat service almost daily durini; na\^ati6n and service by stage .durirtg the vrinter. •" ^ ' ' ' ^ Many rich finds have Ijeen made during the present smnmer, some of which haveproduced the, richest surface^ samples ever foum^ in the Lake of the Woods District, and it is prolxiljk- that the ^Humbei^of working properties in the neighborhood 'will l>e "largely increased Vf6re the winter sets in. , --' NfNO PROPERTY. The Nino propertj' cojnsi&ts of i lo acres on Tillie Lake, north of Deer Lake. It is traversed by many well-(lefined veifls of quartz, of which no less than twelve hav^ been already located ; and it is pr6bable that many others exist cov- ered by vegetation. Of these, only one, th% No. I Vein, or Nino Vein, from \);liich the property derives its name, has been explored to any con- siderable extent. TKis outcrop is along tl|e shoulder of a hill dropping into a swamp at , eitlier end. In the other vtins, we have, ample ground for extending operations in the futui^, and will^oubtless be able in time to supply ore for our mill from a number of shafts. On* one vein many tons op^illable ore already lie ex- posed by action of the elements, and need only transportation to the mill. WATER POWER. An application has been filed with the On- tario Government for the right to control flie water of Caribou River and develop power for use on this property and elsewhere, and such , right will be granted as soon as the i:ompany is prepared to develop the power. Under'this concession, at very small expense, a fall of sixty feet can be made available upon a / r>. la^ stream drawing from a watershed of about 250 square miles ; while there can also be held in reserve, above this head, an available amount of water equal to six feet iii depth over about fifteen square miles. In this way, ample and permanent power for all \ises on this and other properties will be assured for all time at a nom- inal cost. The location of the falls is near the present point of .mininfr development, which will elim- inate any problem irf transmission. 1 TIMBER GRANT. The mining locations of the company are well wooded, and will supply fuel and mine timber for a long time. Besides this timber and lum- ber supply, the company has also secured a timber grant for mining purposes on Deer Lake furnishing ample quantities of excellent pine' so situated that it can l)e floated to Caribou Falls and there manufactured by water power within a short distance of our camp. EXPERT REPORTS. Rat Portage, Ont., August 17, 1900. Messrs., The Directors oe the Nino Goi.d Mining Company bueeai.0, n. y. (irntletncn : In accordance with the instructions contained in your letter of the 4th inst., to visit and make a report on the Nino Mine, I now beg to subm^it the result of my investigation, with assays I also append two plans that will show at a glance where the samples were taken, and also the general run of the veins, etc. Locality : The freehold of the property con- sists of the two locations, J. E. S., 93. and J. E. S., 110, of fifty-one ami sixty acres re- spectively. GKOI.OGY : I need not dwell on this point Ijeyortd saying that the formation is eruptive Kranite with intrusions of porphyry and trap, the former comprising, ' approximately, the midtwo locations and running east and west. In this band is situated the No. I, or Nino, Vein, on which most work has been done ; but there are a number of other veins that will, I am of opinion, well repay a certain amount of exploiting, especially a band of five veins crossing the line between the two loca-, tions ; these are running parallel and more or less east an.l west, varying in size on surface from nine inches to two feet wide. The country IS in every way favorable to Uie occurrence aL. gold, and that this is the case, especially (Q J. E. S., 93, is demonstrated by -the fact that pannings made of the soil from the top of the Nino Vein all show gold, the result of Nature's concentration. Notably is this the case in the sample No. 14 that I took from the top of the vein seven feet east of shaft. I panned an egg- cup full and the result was so surprising that I had an assay made. No. 14 ; this gave I50.62 per ton ; in fact, for a distance 120 feet north of shaft and 150 feet south, the ground is covered with small stringers and splashes of quartz rich in gold.* I mention these facts simply to show how lavish Nature hAs been on the surface, and I think it only fair to assume tliat the yellow metal will also be found beneath, in more or " less varying quantities. Nino Vkin : This vein runs east and west in the granite, parallel with the contact of the trap, from which it is distant about 100 feet. A prospecting shaft has been sunk on the vein to a depth of 123 feet ; the quartz varying in width between good walls from four feet to one foot six inches; the vein is dipping north on an M a rir'h°.'^„"'i' '* "'""'d anpcaf that the Nino Vein is lilce a rich pay strralc in a helt of Bold-hearinif rock «n fit? ^wide^I of whici, i« likejyjo^ Av/^^ Nif o Co. average, approximately, of from 30° to 40° from the \'ertical. At the depth of seventy-two feet from the surface, a level has been driven east thirty-two feet, the quartz having an average width of three feet six inches; another level was driven west twenty-four feet, with quartz averaging three feet wide. The vein outcrops boldly on the surface to the west for a distance of 2.50 chains ( 165 feet), varying in width from five feet at the shaft to one foot where it dis- appears in hill and under swamp seventy-two feet below. On the east side it crops out for a distance of 3.25 chains (215 feet), varying in width from four feet at shaft to four feet six inches where it disappears in swamp, prior, I believe, to appearing on the opposite hill, about fifty feet above swamp ; here the vein is three feet wide, and I obtained several sijecimens showing visible feold. At the base of this hill, a tunnel or adit has been run in on the vein for seventy feet. Before leaving the Nino Vein, I wish to draw your attention to a vein of pyritous schist, about seven feet wide, lying inmiediately between the granite and the trap; this has imbedded in it small stringers of quartz, some of the latter was panned in my presence and showed gold ; but my sample No. 13, taken across the lead on surface, failed to show more than a trace. Still, I incline to think that with depth something will be found, as I expect, from the dip of Uie Nino Vein, a jujjction of the two will occur, and that the trap will eventually form one of the walls of the vein. Assays: Owing to the timbering, and tor- rential rain, I was unable to take samples from sides of shaft, and was, therefore, comiielled to make use of your assay record, kindly placed at my disposal by the manager; as there was nothing exceptionally high, except letter " D," they may be accepted without demur ; the cause of this high assay may l)e accounted for, as in the case of my No. 10, by the occurrence of a^ I =^ resB is in the air. and, in proverbial phraseoloKy, "We must take the season when it scrvts or lose our venture." Our natural resources are enormous — wheat, cattle, forest products, horses, minerals and men. We are hound by loyalty and affection more closely than most people imagine to the Mother Country, and all are inspired by that laudable ambition of seeini,' a solid and impregnable British Empire,. The following references to the Nino Mine is made in the Toronto (ilobc of July 4, 1900: I i^' ..'•gia.t J ft Emeraon jV\ £. Aipoit e/.; ^'fes^^ ^raDil;fi*pldii\ !ll»klniinVjiUL_' X''^" Vi ^ '■ucraoo iMihr Vuia S^*""V '«*tbnd — I T1 1 l^^l' fVg'A linnieiNburg i«ux Ciiy luiiluf Rac PoK aAi>F *|ai]ffviJ tiiNctri.]^ iNebil Cur l VHiey ej Jiliiitla pounoll Blufj ^VjBton A lIuloB. ^l lOttw rich spot, always likaely to occur in this district. Your as^^s are lettered from A to h in the table appended, and mine figured No. i to 14 ; these, compared with the corresponding numbers and f letters on plans, will show at a glance where taken. > Ore in Sight and on Dump: I estimate this, approximately, to be i ,000, tons, and the average value I9.50. Mii,i< : The position is an ideal one for the erection of a mill, being on the shore of two lakes ; there is a large supply of fine timber of all kinds on the locations, suitable for mining, building and fuel, for many years. Should this fail at any time, or should it Ije preferred to adopt electricity as the motive power, there is a fine waterfall about a mile and a half^iway Ihat could be secured and would be ample for all purposes. Buildings : These consist of an eating house and kitchen, sleep- ing camp for twenty-four men, manager's room and office, assay office, smithy, stable and ice house. Summary : I am of opin ion that you have a valuaol • property, there being in addition to the No. i Vei a number of others of a distinctly promising ap- pearance, and there are more yet to be found, I expe on J. E. S., no. The work done on the Nino Vein, the consistent character of the vein matter from the top to the bottom of the shaft, is satisfactory ; and, taken, with the general run of the: , assays, goes far toward^ establishing the value a permanency of the vein, and' Ore Dump — Nino I V rict. able lese, and 9 liere late the the two rof ing. this 1 to is a :hat ^PPly justifies a more extensive outlay. With regard to the work of the future, I strongly adyise you to lose- no time in sinking the present shaft so as to get well below the valley or bot- tom of swamp. To do this, a slteam hoist is essential, and the boiler should be of sufficient size to supply air drills, if adopted later on. Every eflfort should" be made to locate the Nino Vein as it -feaves the swamp and enters the hill on the east, whejre I found visible goM in a thrfee-foot vein. Attention should also be given to the five parallel veins south of this, as the .chances are that, with depth, they will unite ; possibly, the cheapest way to do this would be to crossfciU them by a tunnel at foot of bluflf, about si.xty feet below top of hill. In conclusion, from the useful work you have ''already done on the Nino Vein, and the gen- i U&-i./v<'»r-7'.'!j''lif'J.'A>>.it 1 eral satisfactorj- nature of the assays, you could not wish for nijore honest inducement to carry on operations. ' "t on operations Yciurs faithfully, [Signed. J ; \VM. BECK, Engineer. ASSAYS FROM NINO VEIN. Sample No. I. 2. 3. 4- c. b. 7- ce. Value per ton. . S 2.o6 2.86 6.20 • 10.30 5.96 10! Across roof of I east level at mouth, .Across roof of least level at 10 feet distance, Across roof of least level at 20 feet distance. •Across roof of jcast level at 30 feet distance, .Across hreast o^ east level at 32 feet distanc .Across roof of Wst level at month. ... 3 ,0 Across roof of >lest level at 10 feet distance, 2 70 •Across roof of viiest level at 20 feet distance! '. i 03 Across breast of West level at 24 feet distance, 1.60 Selected ore fron about five feet of bottom of s''a't. ■ • • 4237 Average sample ajlong outcrop^insj of vein for 325 chains east.l ..'... 268; .Average sample alontj outcropping of vein for 2.50 chains west.i ,jj .^ •Average sample fi*pm vein of schiSt, 100 feet north of shaft, h^ the contact trace. FerriginoHS earth irom top of quartz. 7 (eet east of shaft. .\ ^^^^ 6 feet from top of slia^ft. average value per ton, 6 3b 18 feet from top of sha\ft, average value per ton, 6 20 28 feet 6 inches from tdp of shaft, average value ""'on \ 966 36 feet from top of shaf^ average value of three samples \ ^^^ K. fi feet frdm top of shaft\ average value of four samples 55 feet frofti top ol shaft. samples, 64 feet from top of shaft. a\*erage value of four ''"'"D'es ,32 64 feet, a selected sample value per ton . . . 60.00 90 feet 6 inches from top of shaft, average value per ton 15 8c lot feet from top of shaft, average value per ton 1 10 feet from top of shaft, average value per ton 115 feet from top ol shaft, average value per ton 13. •A. B. C. D. F. II. Iiverage value of two .50 3.75 K. 3.S8 4.00 2.00 4.00 wIln^JL*!^ understood that all visible gold is excluded |0m samples taken for assay. Nino Co. L. 123 feet from top of shaft, average value per ton \) Rat Portagk, Ont., August 13, 1900. Thos.W. Gi.eason. Esq., Manager, Great Granite Goi.d Mining &-I>EviH.oPMENT Company, ok Ontario, Ltd. DearSh^ , * , 111 comp^nce with your letter of instruction' of August I, 1900, requesting me to make a re- poTt to you on the mining property said c6m- pany has been developing to some extent since February ist of the present year, viz : Minjng Locations, J. E. S., 93, and J. E. S., no, District \) of Rainy River, Province of Ontario, the rollow- ing IS respectfully submitted : As you are fully aware of the route by which the property is approached and »he main topo^ Kraph.cal features surroundini^ il, I will not touch upon that point more than lo inform you , that I am now having a wagon road prospected direct from Sturgeon Lake to the property • its length Avill be, approximately, four miles, and it will run from the camp nearly a southwesterly course direct to the east end of Sturgeon Lake vvhere connection will be made with the Frazer Line of steamboats. I think this will be a great improvement on the present method of ap- proaching the property and will result in a con- . siderable saving i„ the operating expenses of ■ tJie company. Veins on the Property : There are to be seen on the property not less thanVwelve dis- tinct veins, eight of which occur in the porphy- ,ntic granite and the remainder in the slate and * trap rocks. All the veins occurring in the granite have a strike nearly east and west, approxi- inately paralleling the line of contact between the granite and trap, and dipping at various angles towards the contact to the north. Those veins m the trap liave a northeasterly and south- westerly strike, an' "hares in Europe, not- withstanding the war, average about 370 per cent pre- mium, the highest being Rand Mines, Ltd., whose £1 shares now (even in war time) stand at £38 on London stock Exchange. Both Transvaal and Central Canada ore are free mill- ing, and these remarks apply to over-plate yields only (in both cases), for the reason that few Canadian mines are equipped with modern cyanide or other processes for extraction of residues from tailings, slimes, etc., which would probably increase yields about thirty-five per cent as in the Transvaal. '' I. . n L . k ,..;jju> k i-%,'(ni. v»,.i.;!^V'ijMi,i5^;^ii|^ te<'. jlVf tiS&u^i 1 (t^itrljR » w L I LAKE PLAN OF THE " NINO" GOLD MINE. Scale 5<-in. = iuchains = 33J.65 ft. B Weitern contlauMloD of "NINO" rein. Width of »eln where ltdlt,ppM„ 1 D ilile of hill !■ 1 fi. Averace width fkom endtai>h*ftlii>n.6ln. Areraceiuntiie U»en. Ill iioDg t^e I«S feet «!«•;• tns.TO per ton. Rutero contluuatioo of "NINO" Tcln. Width of TeiD wherelldli»,,,«r. In •w.mp i. 4 ft. « In. Average width flora end to iiheft i. 4 ft. 8 in. A Ters(e •ample taken all along the JI5 feet aaaV>tM.87pertoD. £ .-\ \ ♦<■ .■■^^'M-4:i'-v-J.^^' There is no doubt whatever that the mines ot Central Canida are j;reatly superior to any vet knowii in South Africa, both in extent, size o( ore bodv, and ^rado of ore 1 he conditions and facilities for economical working are creatly in favor of Canada, both in respect to cost of labor, abundance of water power, cheapness of provi- sions, accessibility through regular railway communica- tion in all directions, and tlie important fact that the reefs are payable almost from the surface, as has been abun- danHy proved by the few mines now working at the Lake of the Woods and other centers, where, with the most primitive appliances, highly encoura^iiiK result? are even now beinK-achieved. The total white population of ,South Africa never ex- ceeded 500.000 persons, the noUi fields beinj; distant and difficult of access. Compare this with the central posi- tion of Canada, with prohably 80,000.000 of people on the American continent south of us, and about 350.000000 in Europe, all within ren days reach of the Central Canadian gold fields. Many of the.se (esj.ecially those who have made money throujjh niininj; investments elsewhere) would undoubtedly invest, if they knew of the existence of these mines, a fractional percentage of which will suf- fice to place Canada on a satisfactory basis as a gold-pro- ducing center, and cannot fail to prove advantageous to Canada as a whole, and theyreat expansion of population and commerce jsenerally. , GOLD FIELD."^. Kxlract from the Can.i.li.in (lovernnieni (;,ii<-tte. The Gold Fields of Central Canada are very extensive the quartz reefs beinn situated principally in the Pro- vinces of Ontario and Manitoba, in the hilly region on the shores of the Lake>f the Woods, also Lakes .Manitoba and Winnipeg. The ore bodies are large. clearly-deHiied fissure veins of free-milling high-grade ores and ot great extent, cover- ' ing some 350 by 150 m ties in area. In certain locaJitjes. there are immense bodies of low- grade ore, running' uj) to 150 feet and over in widtli, at the surface, and of^unknown depth ; 5 to 10 dwts. ,)er ton mill returns from trial crushings are common averages; these reefs could be worked as quarries at small cost, and should in the near future yield important results. Unlimited water power is available throughout the whole district, fuel is plentiful, ajid other facilities are all that can be desired for extensive mining operations. At I)resent, development is only in its infancy: but as the railway now passes through this region, important results are anticipated in the near future. Some of the pioneer mines, with primitive appliances, have proved highly productive, and the reefs increase in size, grade and uniformity as depth is attained. The followinji; i« quoted from an address of Mr. Allan Sullivaii to the shareholders of the Anglo-Caiiadia6 Company in London : I should like to make a few preliminary observations as to the gold tji-lds of the Lake of the Woods and Kain; Riverdistricts. Their area is,at.proximatelv,6o.ooo.squar.- miles, an extent of country 400 miles long bv 150 wide lying directly northwest of Lake Superior and between that magnificent body of water and Winnipeg, which latter place may be said to be the begiiviing of the |,rai- ne country of the West. This region is traversed along Its northern edge by the main line of the Canadian I'acitic Railway, and there is at present under construction an- other independent line, called the Ontario & RainyKiver Railway, which practically bisects it from end to end 1 he district has an unrivaled waterway, consisting of a maze of lakes and navigable rivers stretching for hun- dreds of miles. For instance. I can leave Rat I'ortage on the Lake of the Woods, which is the point where the Canadian Pacific Railway touches that lake, anti take a steamer of 400 tons burden and proceed for 180 miles • 1 can then take another steamer and proceed another sev- enty miles, after which canoes are utilized. The ground %vliere hare rock exposures do not occur, is covered with' a dense growth of pine and spruce and other merchant- able timber. The most attractive feature of the district . IS. of course, its auriferous belt. This I find somewhat hard to describe, because this whole enormous tract may be said to compose this auriferous belt. Wherever you go. m any part of it. there are out-cropping reefs varying from one foot to 400 feet, and my personal estimate is that hfty per cent, of these reefs carry gold in appreciable quantities. This high percentage is no exaggeration and 1 venture to. say.it is unparalleled in any other part of the globe. There has been a great deal of volc-inic disturbance throughout the district, to which fact 1 attrib- , ute Its auriferous qualities. .Ml along and near the edge of the contacts bounding the eruptive points gold is found -sometimes in reefs of outcropping quartz, some- times in dykes or bands of schistose rocks, through .which the solution carrying gold values has percolated with extraordinary uniformity. I do not consider rliat the future of the district lies so much in the treatment of the quartz reefs, which vary in size from two feet to si^feet and in value from 10 dwt to 15 dvit.. as m the winning of gold from these large dykes where the markinal /rofit, while not so great, may be " counted upon as absolutely certain. I myself have seen these dykes 300 feet wide, with an average value of 6 Swt where, under conditions due to available water-power' the cost of treatment should not exceed 3 dwt. In an o^if body of this nature a verj- small apiount of development '» .work 16 necessary to prove the existence of a very lar^.e V, l.ody of payable stone. As the result ol the wear.n,- down hy«lac,al action, the present surface of the countrv s from 600 feet to,8oo fee. at least helow the original sur- th !'.>m .'"^^"'^^'«^!l!" '"'''^'- "'='' Nature has don- h,s amount of proslT?t^fcr us. and at 500 feet helow the present surface. I haVseen reefs whfcl amply j I i," aTi^n'T l""','""^ '° '"°^' ^"'-"'>- carr'vdownt hor ?o H r '""'• ''""'"'''' ""'" """^^ '" '"e nei«l,. , . borhood of our prosp.rctin»j ri.-hts. the Sultana, at 400 a m>ll test of several tons hroken across this face rea'ieed over 30 dwt. per ton. The M ikado. at .50 feet, is i,. s k'n dKi condition, with a reef of considerable mat^nftude and ."OS, unmistakable value. The Foley, at 400' fe^'.K^ rr'l '^r"^'"*-' ••■""' •"'■ '^"-•- =" ^ feet, has about , 200 feet thickness of ore. which should return them sood profits over the plates ; while the Ila.nu.ond Reef has an ore tody 400 feet wide and about half a mile long, whic Has been proved to a depth of seventy-five feet and has a .value equal to the Olive. These are irrefutable f*ts wl o w llTw'"?,"' '■' "'"'" -^t'onstration to anyone who «, 1 take the time and trouble ,0 look at then [Hear, hear. J The depth of sur*4ce _V, I disturbance does not, as a rul ^ extend beyond 100 feet. A point to which I particu- • arly desire to draw your aP y, tention is the purity of our ^ ores. They do not contain talc, which causes slimes and loss of value, or arsenic, which sickens mercui'y and , prevents , amjiljjamation ; '^ neither do they contain aiM» *" appreciable amount of J eopiier, which prevents economical extraction by v cyanide. What this m«W), can best., perhaps, be re^ , ized by those who atg ai ' present wrestling with problem of extraction from sulphide ores in other parts of the trlobe. Our labor conditions , ar( most fayorable. T^ere is abundant supply of .«iH labor at a cost of 81.75 to > S2.00 per day. This is very cheap when coml_ pared to labor in British Columbia, where it costs S3.50. ?' The erection of a plant of mach ery is also most reasonable, owln our transportation facilities Our percentage of e'xtra. -' , fon IS hiK-h, owin, ,„ the simple nature of 'he ores 1, e.: c*: d r" "r ''-'' •- --"'>• -^ "-■ ••■•'" "" txtra.t.d by amal;:amation, the remaining; twentv per -nt. by cyanide: that is to sa,. in our^rdinarv ores ' btheve a total extraction of from eiVhtv-five ,0 nim-iv > ' I!laTandV;""v°'"''"''' "''" " '""'^''" ''"'' economilai • ' planVand canidin;: is practically rendered unneces,ai<^ lJi.nn«-winter time our shafts are absolutely dry V :;.''r"n"''"r"'^"- ^^ ■"• -^-rd to thi.s. i w„j, ' ' t / '■'"' "'• '" ""' ""■" ^•■'■•*^-- our shaft makes just enough water ,0 keep the bftiler «oi„, months^ I he water ,s >Vli«ht1y warmed as it enters the n., 1 and not the sli.hte,, dilhcultv is experienced e t ^ .h the free.in, of pipe#or in amalgamation. Ihere is no more profitable (ield for KnulisI, rapit ,h»' endi't't V'""';- " ""' ""-""^ '""' ...one tber.?' f of «reat developments atidprosperitv; ttj,- spirit ol pro.- iP s^ ri'ss is in the air. and. in proverbial p».i««ni(iu«-.- "We niusl take the season when it serves or lose uut ,«ii»arp " Our natural resources are enormous — wheal Ctt(U forest products, horses, minerals and men. We an bound by loyalty and affection more closely than most- people iniatfine to the Mother Country, and all are inspired by that laudable ambition at seeing a solid and jnipregnable British Empire. The following references to the Nino Mine is made in the Toronto C,7odc of July 4, 1900 : Mr, Pengilly, the managin); expert of the Mikad mine, visited the Nitio when the shaft was eighty fee deep, and was his ' ■ pleased with the property. He i reported to have stated in Rat Portage that if the mjn were his property he would not exchange it for any min in the Lalte of the Woods, not even excepting th Mikado: The shaft is now down over 100 feet and lool ing better than ever. Sapiples from the property, receni ly assayed at Rat Portage and Toronto, have shown froii Si, 500 to $1,600 of gold per ton. " r ' r I ' ^.^ the manaKinK expert of the Mikado e Nitio wlien the shaft was eiyhty feet ig'i' ■' oleased with the property. He is ! statcfl in Rat Portage that if" the mjne y he would not exchange it for any mine the Woods, not even excepting the laft is now down over loo feet and look- •vcr. Sapiples from the property, recent- t Portage and Toronto, have shown from )f gold per ton. r ^i. '41 * HE /■■" few':-; A # ' K^FI ^" ^H ' ■ A r \ L' a'^ H|«| 1 fl ^J ^\ ^y« . -^WF n M \ vm 9 — *■ - "S!^ >«..>-, i ^i?:d- T-AKE OF THEWDQDS 14 » 1 1, ', ■}.., J u ^^ 9T. otkrHAmtmrna. omt.. Ur. D. D. Potter, 8«oy. Nino Mining Oo., Dear Sir, from the llna'J^^ r^M'"" '"^"^ °'" sa-^Plss H^-nded , rroB tne Nino Mine for dStermlnatlon of goia values. peeulta J^^n\!!l",l!° *°" visible In any of ths mater: peaultB given are the average of the entire samplaa aubn i a PpSH*2h»rf''"°^ '■?°* '■'■°'" "'°^" ''«^" ^"^^ °f s--art ^ «i From shaft on main (vein f 3 From shaft on main vein # 4 Surface roolt # 6 Prom shaft on main vein at HO- depth Values are given in tons of a«oo poufttfs. Yours truly, .>r^: p<^ J to '' ^-■- \ o* \ ^--^ \ •^>V^,-'"" Mr. cirMAftfwca. owr.. Sept. i4th, 1900. J Co., L^M,^"'' assays of samples handed me as ccmlnK ir d«terralnatlon of gold values. ) gold visible in any or the material assayed. The I average of the entire samples submitted for assay. 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