Show CON MERCUR ORE BODIES after two days underground at the mines of the consolidated mercur company says the daily herald of the alst president john dern and vice president E IL II airis returned to town thursday night little has been said regarding development at that wonderful property during the winter for the simple reason that there has been little to tell the routine in a property as vast as the consolidated mercur precludes the making and recording of strikes at close intervals in fact what would be termed new disclosures in a mine of diff different er character are not so considered in this mine where the ledge varies in thickness from thirty to seventy five feet however there have been some important strikes made in the consolidated mercur during the past few weeks and to see what they looked like and at the same time to inspect the better developed portions of the companas comp anys territory was the purpose of the visit of the chief officials much has been said about the exhaustion of the mines ore reserves during the past few months said president dern yesterday and I 1 only wish that all of the shareholders might he be able to see and understand der stand the mine for themselves during the fourteen months following the purchase of captain Captai rf de lamars interest in the company more new gr ground build and greater ore bodies were opened than during any like abr period iod an fn m the history of the mines it is true of course that these vast or ore reserves have been quite heavily drawn upon during the past winter with a mill handling 1000 tons daily such must have necessarily been the case at the same time however the prospecting of new ground has been steadily prosecuted and everything now indicates that results just as important as any heretofore attained will follow at the extreme west of the developed portion of the mine in absolutely virgin ground the vein has again been opened and found to carry the regulation values the ore body being so far as explored thirty airty one feet thick at the point named the vein was found to have faulted or stepped down and its width was determined by sinking through it or apparently patently ly through it though it may yet be proven that the ore thus opened is only a lenze or layer in the vein to the east of what at one time appeared to be th the limits of the ore bearing zone the ground was drifted through for quite a distance when a raise was made at a height of something like sixty feet the ledge ads wa s again tapped and found to be as strong and carrying as good or better values than those occurring to the west this discovery has borne out the opinion of the management that a great fault did occur in the ledge and that the developments of the past year and a half had been between the east and west break the ledge being found below on the west and above on the eastern extremity the central or developed portion of the great vein is a monster mine in itself the recent d developments to the east and the west can as surely be counted upon to make just as big properties and that they will add many years of steady and very profitable production to the mines as a whole there is not the least occasion to doubt it takes a long time to thoroughly understand the freaks of nature in a mining property and the men in charge of the consolidated mercur have unquestionably mastered them there the future therefore is no longer in doubt in the northern portion of the com banys property recent developments have also been of a most encouraging nature and it will likely not be long till good news will be coming from that section in fact the physical condition of the entire property is all that could be desired at the present time with everything pointing to an addition to the ore reserves during the year never before approached in the same length of time president dern also stated that mr moore was nicking making a great success oi of his method of treating tailings and he felt confident ff de nt t that h at it would soon reach that stage where its introduction anto into thet the n nim u 11 would prove very profitable the consolidated mercur has made and is making a great record as a dividend earner and it seems as though its career had hardly begun |