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Show THREE KINGS WILL I GO DVERTHE DUMPj Streak Analyzed Out of Curiosity Proves to Run High in Gold. When the Three Kings company of Park City found a streak of brown oxi- j dized lime on the hanging wall of its winze about two weeks ago it saved a sample as a matter of curiosity and kept throwing the rest over the dump. Xow it will have its men go over the dump and pick up every handful of the material they can find. On the footwall side of the winze was a narrow Btreak of galena which : was considered worthy of assay. When the sample was made up one of the j officers decided to test the brown oxide. ox-ide. When the certificates came back the galena showed .3 ounces gold, 11.8 ounces silver and 25.2 per cent lead. That looked pretty good till the eyes of the officials lit on the returns from the brown stuff. This is what it ran: "Gold, 85.35 ounces; value $1707. Silver, trace. Lead, trace." The fact was that the Three Kings, at a depth of 160 feet below its 500-foot 500-foot level, had cut one of the lenses occasionally found in the north end of the Park City district, where gold is the dominant metal. The Silver King Coalition has had some very rich and productive gold stopes. In the Three Kings workings the gold streak is said to be about eight inches , thick and to be goiug down in a slip ; on the hanging wall side. The management manage-ment believes it will be possible to gather up three or four tons of the bonanza bo-nanza stuff on the dump and out of the side of the winze and to save more at every shift in sinking the winze. The bottom of the winze is believed now to be within seventy-five feet of the underlying quartzite. |