Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-01-11 | Page 40 | Florence Mine Hits Low Grade

I FLORENCE r lINE P INE I HITS LO LOW GRE GRADE High Grade Ore Being Shipped From Froll Leases rh The rhe general condition of or the llorence Florence Pier Flor I ence once mine mino Is regarded as b bettor better beter now than ever h by the er e present management man nina says the Goldfield Goldfeld Tribune Tho The two crosscuts being driven by the tho company on tho the seventh lev level l have reached a combined length of feet foet S for or that of the southeast and 2 I for tor that to tho tim west west Tho The former has for over fifty feet been driven leen as asI a adrift adrift I drift in tho the most promising material I found In tho the company work a sol solid body of or quartz quarts of undetermined width from which assays of over o er 6 G havo have been secured secure The Tho quartz h has passed to the tho northeast o out t of the tho crosscut and it I is planned to follow it with wih a drift after tho the main working workIng working work work- ing has been advanced far tar enough to permit this Both Doth crosscuts have have passed through numerous seams of excellent appearance but none was of sufficient Importance to tempt the management to develop them at tha the present time until the hod bod body of or quartz was found far southeast southeast of tho the main developed part of oC tho the mine The Florence Forence Divide lease continues continues con con- to make make an Important production production tion lon an and yesterday 1400 pounds of or oro ore estimated by ly F E. E A. A DrIer Byler engineer for or the Florence Florenco company compan to bo be worth from 3 5 to 6 a pound was sent by byox ox express press to MIdvale Mr Byler Dyler is confident con con- ident that the smelter returns will wl show the shipment to be le worth not less than Six carload lots have havo been shipped from this lease since November 1 1 The per ton value of the first four accor according Ins to smelter returns re returns reI re- re I turns was and 2840 28 The last two shipments made December De Do- cember comber 6 and 16 15 l had an art estimated value of or 60 and 78 per ton although a grab sample from the 1 last t lot as- as a- a sayel The Tho Dunn and Adamson leases have havo each made mado a a carload shipment shIpment this month and the the Boesch lease h has shipped twice tho the oro ore assaying assaying- from over 23 25 to over o 60 Barker and Heiden developing a n block near ner tho the main shaft and at at a shallow depth are arc preparing a shipment of from thirty thirty- five vo to forty tons of or ore oro that accordIng according accordIng accord- accord Ing to estimates may average erase a over