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Show CfEF CISQLiTEQ STRIKE IMPROVIMG Tintic Standard Breaking Ore and Shipments to Start in Near Future. Some very important developments have been m.nVle in the underground workings of the Chief Consolidated mine during the past month or six weeks, chief anions which has been tho discovery dis-covery of a large body of gold-lead ore on the 1)00 level, says the Eureka Reporter. Re-porter. The ore was first located in one of the drifts, but the bulk of the new deposit de-posit was not found until a raise was seut, up from this point, and now rather extensive stopinr operations arc under way. Down on the 1SO0 level the drift is just jettinj; into the ore deposit, which was followed almost to this depth by j means of a winze. It will be some time before a commercial product will come from this part of the property. Enough ore to load a car is now on the dump ar the Tintic .Standard property, prop-erty, and the shipment will no doubt, be j tent out within the next week or two. 1 This ore was mined from the 3000 and , J200 levels, moift of it beinff taken out as the development work progressed. In character the ore is similar to that previously shipped from this mine. Reports have reached here of a new i strike in a crosscut being driven at I j the Lamar mine, located in Arthur I canyon, twelve miles west . of Morgan ' switch, ome, stringers of ore were ! cut at a depth of thiity-rive feet and a I four-foot lissure was -truck carrying ; some high values. It is not the I first strike of anv interest in the locality. lo-cality. Although the heavy snow may delay work, development will continue ! and considerable prospecting will be I done daring the next thirtv days. I In order to provide a better water supplv for the Knieht-Christensen mill the big electric pump has been lowered from the 800 level of the Dragon Consolidated Con-solidated to the 1000 level. The heaviest tlow of water at the Dragon is on tho 3000 level, and the management decided de-cided to change the location of the i pumri so that there would be no ques-tionabout ques-tionabout the adequacy of the wat"r supply for the concentrating plant. The mill is now using about twenty-five gallons of water per minute iu the treatment treat-ment of 100 tons of ore daily, and a much larger supply of water can be secured se-cured from the Dragon in the event that the capacity of the milling plant is increased. During the early part of the past week the Dragon Consolidated people took rip work "on the S'10 level of the mine. The drift which they arc driving is being sent off toward the south, where it will encounter the Martha Washington vein. Work has also been resumed in the long tunnel which is cutting the Dragon ground from north to south and which will eventually connect up with tho workings in the north end of the prop-O'tv. prop-O'tv. from which considerable ore is now being shipped. The tunnel is following fol-lowing the main vein in this prooertv, and in the near future it is expected to cut a rather important body of copper ore. |