Show NEW DISCOVERIES IN SILVER ISLAND Emancipator Vein Is Opened in Two Places Lower on Mountain Two Twp new Important ore discoveries on the Silver Island Coalition Mines com corn Emancipator vein lower down the mountain side than the lowest of the three openings on the south end of ot the vein are reported by C I Pratt secre secretary secretary tary tan of the company who Is at the mine watching developments The first of these is Ii a fine showing of o osand sand carbonates with considerable ga galena galena galena lena mixed through them Only three shifts of work had been beer accomplished In Inthe Inthe inthe the opening when Mr Pratt wrote but considerable ore had bad been sacked and the showing was Improving with every shot The ore is 15 stained with red oxide of ot cop copper copper copper per and carries high values in silver copper and lead Below that strike about feet on the Incline presented by the surface of the mountain has been opened a streak of ore which outcrops between strata of ot limestone lying flat Indicating that the fissure is entering a bedded vein Should this conclusion prove correct it will be regarded as settling beyond all question the making of ot a big mine for a fissure entering a bedded vein means permanent ore bodies While tho the permanency of ot the ore bodies In the he Coalition ground has not been questioned development deV has not been in progress long enough to absolutely prove that so that every added proof is wel welcomed welcomed corned To Drive New Tunnels A A new tunnel is to be driven on the bed bedding bedding bedding ding plane if such it proves to be The site is well toward the base of ot the moun mountain mountaIn tain tam on the south side It will make the fourth tunnel on the vein on that side without counting the first adit which attains a vertical depth of only about 30 feet teet All five openings are in high grade ore with the best showing at pres present present present ent in the second tunnel where is a body of 18 Inches of ot very vary stuff sturt the values being largely silver and cop copper copper copper per The fourth tunnel will attain a depth of at least feet from the sur surface surface face tace Over on the bonded banded property the raise from the lower tunnel has opened Into richer material It shows 14 H HInches inches of ore Mr Pratt says sas wilt will run at least a ton being fully as rich as that in Emancipator No 2 tunneL tunneL tun tunnel I nel The company is sacking ore in five places but in four of or the places the tho ore I is taken out in drifting only so that about two tons a day is the average output The tunnel on the north end of the Eman Emancipator Emancipator vein has Just been prepared for or sloping so 50 that production will wUl soon be increased |