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Show ; CON. MERCUR'S NEW ORE BODY H I j During the past ninety days the Con- M-" solldntcd Morcur company has opened B h body of oxidized ore In the old Golden Gut- workings that bids fair to make a H; new mini) of that property. During the H time mentioned an Incline has been mink Hp. l distance of 2S0 feet lit the vein, line .i values being maintained for the entire Vj dliitaiice values ranging from S5 to $18 M or more. Sinking Is ntl) In progress nnd H' tho grade of the ore keeps up well. The j Work was commenced In what has been B Known iih the bottom of the Golden Gate m- mine,-where previous managements of j tho property had reached the concludon Hfc pay values ceaseu, so mat every root of E the work now being do no Is in virgin H ground. The ledge dlpn to the east, tin- H iter the big mountain on which the mill H was built, and ! being followed down H In what Is designated as winze No. 7. H Two levels havo been run out In the H vein to the north and three to the south. H The first and second lovels In the latter H direction have been ndvnnccd llfty feet b through good ore to a point where a V "fault" occurs, nnd where no attempt H has yet been made to determine Its rclu- H tlon to the vein'. The No. 3 level has not H yet reached tho "fault," but the oreH H coming from it average well up with HH those In the levels above. T; 0n tno ,0rth 8llll'i No. 1 lovel has been B I sent out over 200 feet and, with the ex- H ' caption of an unlmortnnt "lean" streak or two of a few feet thick, the values, B according to dally sampling, shows nv- H nrages In excess of $10 per ton. The H same conditions are found In the second H level, which Is now out a distance of H about seventy-live feet. The third level 1 on this side has not yet been started, H and at no pla.-e a pounJ of ore yet been j mined, other than that which Is taken H out In niiuiliur the winze and levels. No I croBs-ciittliDr of the vein hns been at- Li, tempted eltli -r. and Its average width Is HF"-. thercforo uiaieterinlned. Hut, Judging H ' from the woik dono In establishing the H s dtfforcnt levels. Mnnagcr Dern Is contl- B dent that It will bo found to vary from H fifteen or eighteen to forty feet. H , Tho possibilities In that .portion of the H mine seem to be practically llmltlCFs nnd H Manager Dern Is pardonably elated In H Lonseiucnce, lartlculnrly to because of H the results being obtained In tho face of H the derision of those who preceded him H in the management that "bottom" had H been reached. Manager Dern is expect-H expect-H . Irtvr big things from the new discovery H nnd declares that he is not going to be fooled cither |