Show S MASON VALLEY HAS BIG ee STRIKE sn IE Real High Grade Shoot Was Tapped Tapp d in Deepest Work Workings Workings Workings ings on Saturday Before I left Los Angeles for Salt Lake said Fred A Flindt of the Ma Mabon MaISon Maion ion bon Valley Copper company yesterday I saw a dispatch from the mine to George E Gunn which advised him that the ore bodies had just been be n opened on the fifth or lower tunnel level This I think Is the most im ire important important news that ever came from front the mine as it establishes beyond all ques question question question tion that the mine goes to the deep and that the values will go down ore The east drift on the low lower er tunnel level reached the ore two or three weeks ago but the values were low in Jn copper and high in iron The copper averaged about 2 per cent It is evident as was sas then believed and now demonstrated that this material was vas simply the casing to the real ore mak making making ing leg portion of the lode where the ore Is now running I understand i to 6 per percent percent percent cent copper With this disclosure made on the tho fifth firth tunnel level the Mason Valley company is going to develop and block out a tremendous additional ton tonnage tonnage tonnage nage In a very short time For several w weeks the mine was without electric power owing to the damage done by bythe b bythe the floods and storms and for that rea reason reason son ron but slow progress was made with the tho work in hand Everything is run running running running ning full tilt again and Superintendent |