Show Prince Con Starts e Shaft to Explore ore Property at Depth Will Wil Open Up Rich Pack Silver Gold Gold Siver B Bed d Wit Feet Also Sink to Zinc Bedding and Open Fissures Fissure in i Quartzite A A A T A MEETING of the board of directors director of the Prince Consolidated Li lIning Mining company yesterday lay in the building the s sinking i of the thc company's s two compartment shaft an additional feet was vas authorized author and thc work was started at once This work will wi develop wa a known know ore bo body y within tho distance and Inter later it is understood that the tho shaft will wi be sent down several hundred feet more opening up another or ore body and also developing the tile fissures in m the tho which for years years- year has been the tl tw most interesting problem on the Pioche The first firt bed ins ains 25 23 ounces in silver and in gold old on the time er a average e. e It I is t ten tn n feet thick while time the second be bed is 11 U 1 feet thick and is a zinc blend or jack black carrying better than 30 per pcr cent The Tho work of ot smiting sinking tho tImo now new ver- ver lelo shafts shaft which is down a a distance of ot feet teet has already started started The rhe shaft shan was a year cal ago to afford aCord aCorda a better outlet for the largo large tOnna tonnage e eor of or ore that the c company was shipping Tho Time old incline shaft shaf la is down to tho the sixth level leyel where here the tho permanent water water wa wa- ater a ter level was encountered Tho The new shaft shaf was not extended to tho the water level ol at tho the time The first Ir t feet teet of oC work worl to the tIme water waler level can be carried carried car car- ried ned on with the present equipment It I Is expected expect d that the shaft will wil reach tho the sixth l level cl cut a shaft shat and prepare prepare pre pre- pare for Cor the pumping of ot tho the water within thirty five to forty days las In Inthe tho the meantime all al tho the necessary equipment equipment equip equip- ment for sending the shaft to depth can ho bo shipped and installed According to Manager Murray C. C GOdbe the boilers and other equipment equipment equip equip- ment for tho the sinking of ot tho shaft shat and anI tho the pumping out of tho the mine minI below tho thio water level will wH be shipped Mon Ion da day Arrangements have already alread been completed to secure this machinery The sinking of tho tIme shaft shaf tho additional additional addi addi- tonal foot is expected to take about four months months It I is probable that Just as ns soon Mon as that I Is finished d tho the shaft shaH will wil bo be sent down feet teet more through h the zinc bed and into the tho qu quartzite a r tz ite Tho The ne new shaft shan has two to compartments compart compart- ments meats the tho working compartment beIng being being be be- ing 4 feet 6 Inches b by 7 5 feet teet and containing containing con con- taming a gel self dumping skip of two and one half one hal tons capacity The other compartment is I G feet Ceet by G Ci feet tee 6 inches for manway manay air and water pipes pes The Thc first bedding or of ore which has been heen demonstrated b by a series of ot drill dri holes shows a a. depth of ot ten feet reet This work has shown a width of oC feet teet and If IC tho the bedding conforms to that al already already al al' ready developed In the lime beddings In the property It Is 1500 feet lon long At a R depth of aC feet below this bedding bedding bedding bed bed- ding is tho the zinc bedding Is eleven en feet thick and has probably the same lateral dimensions Early Mining Tho The carl early mining mining- In Pioche was as on tho the north side of or a range of or mountains mountains moun moun- talus which run In a northwest and southeast direction On tho the north side sido of oC this range the erosion has been than in any army other part of or the camp and tho the quartzite is expo exposed ed In InthIs Inthis Inthis this quartzite the great reat fissures res were found that made tho the camp famous In Inthe inthe the thc early jOs From the oxidized fis fissures fissures fis- fis known aR as tho the Raymond Ely and the Meadow Valley fissures some 20 0 was taken out In the rich chlorides and und bromides bromides Along each side sido of or this range of or mountains there is a system of ot fis- fis ts suring The mineralizing force torce on the side was vaS probably the famous Yuba dike an Intrusive porphyry r On tho the other of ot tho the range rang tho the limestone lime lime- stono stone has not been eroded from tho The TIme Prince mine is across tho the ridge a a mile mie and 0 a h half f sou southwest hW s o or The exploration 01 Ot inu tie Prince fissure do do do a 1 Into the has been one of the pr problems of oC the tho camp which has attracted attention for tor years ears The engineers have declared I that there Is little doubt doub but what the tn fissures will be bo much larger antI richer and anti thc they arc are al also o of the time opinion that tho time fissures on tho Prince Irinco sido of or the theran ran range e are aro tho strongest In the 12 1250 O feet of limestone that overlays the tho quartzite at the Prince millions o of tons of or low low- low grade rade oro ore have been developed eloped dp a anti and from these Im Immense Immense tin tin- mense bodies bodleR shipments havo have been made for Cor several years At present tho the I Prince Is shipping better heter than 2000 OO tons of oC this ore a week The company compan has been gra gradually ual building up I Its troa treasury ury to a point where Jt It I would be Justified In undertaking ln lt this largo large ploce of development work The oro ore occurs first ns as a rich lead- lead silver ore about three feet teet wide In the Ivel Prince fissure nn and second ns as a are re replacement replacement re- re placement of certain of or the ho limestone led beds on either side side of the thc Prince fissure fis fis- is- is sure A completo complete replacement of ot tho the limestone beds has taken place for a distance of ot foot feet In places an and Sn n approximate ora a average o distance of oC SOO OO feet from the Prince fissure over a n known leown distance of 1500 feet along alone the time strike 0 of ot the time fissure Five Ilvo FIo different limestone beds above aboe t the o GOO foot level le varying In thickness from five Che feet reet up to ninety feet havo have thus been completely replaced In addition to the five tive beds explored b by the time mine workIngs work work- I In tugs Ings E. E two additional beds Tone one containIng containing contain contain- I In ing zinc have h e been hern explored b by diamond Ila- Ila dia dia- I mond nond drill holes hole Tho The oro occurs as ns stated tinted in a n limestone ln estone formation known 1 I to o hao havo a n thickness of ot 1250 1 feet t In n a a. a recent letter leter S. S T. T a 0 I mining en engineer at nt Pioche sal said relative reIn rela 1 tive U ve to the Prince mine amino Richer nt at nt Depth Evidences nil all al point to tho the source of ot t a mineralizing solution In II tho the PI PI che region aa an being from below the tho upper tipper lime and shale beds eds have been favorable ta to wide regular regular reg reg- 1 ular ilar and extensive replacement min main tho the chemical mal make up up e-up of or orthe the he beds prior to thu tho mineralising acion action ac ac- ac ion tion ton having governed the time precipitation LIon tion ton nature of or the time deposits The I Prince has not yet ot been shown In the quartzite but in oth other r t I arts of Pioche where re comparison has hns parts parts wl t I b development the beon een made possible by have evidently furnished fur rUI um the precipitate for or tho the richest j tend lead ad and sliver silver siver content Tho The natural I r I Is that tho the extensive o circulation circulation I lation of or solution necessary to form torm t I the he ore are bcd beds bedl proven In the Prince through the could not have havo passed up overlaying o fissures without forming Important ore oro 00 deposits in route 0 u tc |