Show COLFAX STRIKE IS SIGNIFICANT Owner of Latest Sen Seti Sensation Sensation Tells of Development That Surprised Camp CampA J II IIA A few tew days das ago a II special dispatch to The Herald from Pioche told of a sensa sensational sensational strike that had been made by E EF EF EF F Freudenthal In his Colfax group of claims Verification of ot the disclosure came a few tew days later and yesterday Ed Freudenthal himself who arrived In town Wednesday noon and pulled out again last night smilingly told of ot the prospective bonanza he was proving up We Ye have had such stormy weather since the strike was made explained d fhe he visitor that it has been impossible to do much When hen I left camp we had got bot started however and the men nen had a hole ten fret deep In ore are every ounce of oC which was as it came out Sam Samples Samples ples pies taken t show that It will average over aw 00 ounces oun s in silver per ton with a little lead The silver sliver values occur in a man manganese gangue and the significance of ot the thing Is that this is a complete reversal of ot the usual conditions prevailing In the veins of that region In the Prince Consolidated for Instance where the tho big blk black lode averages high in man the silver values run low The Colfax Is the first property to show high silver values under such conditions The ledge is a big one and a contact between and lime This ledge runs for feet through the Colfax group and numerous holes and open cuts have been made along the strike to re remove remove remove move the debris and prove the tho presence of the lode About l feet from efroin the point where the rich ore are has been heen opened up upon upon upon on the Colfax we wc have five feet f t of fine CIne ore arc exposed and by b any by we shall b sinking Inking at that point I have hae had several offers for this property already but 1 J have not entertained any an of them seri arri seriously as a yet pt I want to have hae more marc Urns to make explorations on my own account acc before determining det what shall be done I 1 have twentythree claims claim there are so located that they fully protect the big bib ledge from the danger of litigation in all direction U elee we Wt shall make one of or the biggest bt t bonanza mines there theN therein in the country Mr is h also a larger tart owner owne and ami the manager r of or the Luck Iu Lucky k Star corn com which is located close to the Day Da mine of the rom com company pany at Ja Jack Jak k Habbit lie slates that on I the east cant end of the too Lucky LII k Boy Doy claim In Inthis inthis this group a is IB being belli driven In on the vein in has hils been encountered a anile afine nile flue body bod of ore or rp that samples sample 40 It per cent lead and fourteen to eighteen ounces sil silver 11 1 ver er At t 1 another r point twenty feet reft lower down don lie lir is 15 i opening o up ore or that sample 8 25 23 to 30 0 4 per cent lead and twelve to fifteen ounces oune silver p pr per T ton An operating tun tunnel tunnel nel nd is now being In driven to crosscut and develop the t e several cral ledges that outcrop in this thiA property It if Is now HOW in a distance of or nearly 0 JJ feet fe ft t and it will not b be Manager says until he lie lIebe be begins begins gins to reach the wins veins through tills this ave v nue When that happens it will not oot take long to provide ground round and ami an per permit permit permit mit of mining on an extensive scale scull i Dont you Von worry about Pioche said I Mr Freud I en thai In hi parting we WI haw have ha the best country on earth carth I down there then and we are getting the right kind of men and ample capital to make and open up the mines as they deserve deserie to be |