Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-02-24 | Page 51 | Alta Con. Ore $36 Ton, While Mine Improves

PITA CON ORE 36 TON WHILE MINE r INE IMPROVES First Car Controls Show 25 Silver 47 18 Iron Copper 47 Lead Ore from the first carload shipment made by b the Alta Consolidated this year era a d 36 a ton a second car carIs carIs caris Is at the samplers today and a third is ready to be moved as soon fl as teams can be procured procure Is la the tho report that Manager J. J D. D Lewis brought down I from camp yesterday The ore are In the first car cr carries 25 ounces silver sUver t. 47 per cent copper 47 per cent lead and andIS andIS andis IS per cent iron Physically the Alta AHa Con never ne before beron was in as good condition is the word Mr V Lewis brings s to the tho stockholders The new June lease has encountered some ore which assays assay's US ounces silver silver silver sil sil- sil- sil ver and per cent copper The fissures fis fin fin- is 6 C feet teet wide and shows iron sulphides This Is feet in from the tho portal of or the main tunnel where a II raise is up 10 Tho The raise is i du to cut an ore shoot developed In the Tilden tunnel The Tilden ore are was 2 Z Z feet wide and carried 54 H In gold golds besides besides besides be be- sides the other metals That is about feet above the present work Some Home samples ot at the rich galena Jalena stringers ers being encountered out In the Brooklyn drift brought ht down Here narrow stringers are arc pinched in between the tho hard lime Indications are unusually promising for an ore arc body The Braine Draine Is down GO 60 feet It is still in oro At 75 76 feet a a. station will be bo cut and drifting started on tho fissure All the bottom of tho the is in ore A hoist will be installed to help the work Tho The No 2 Braine raise is up 30 feet and shows 21 2 feet of or silver sU lead copper-lead ore are The No 1 is up 60 feet This later on will wili bo be carried up to make connection with the main tunnel tunnel tun tun- nd nel level about 40 10 feet more Eight Bight inches of ore shows in the top When the connection Is made all the tho ore will willI willbe willbe I be hoisted to the level leve above o and run out this main tunnel to the tho ore oro bins and tramway Ore is being lifted from tho the Silver el King where tho the values have spread and oro ore can be broken In two places Tho The property generally Is la re reI reported reported re- re I ported In excellent condition and promie prom- prom I IlP ie PS to make m 1918 its banner year