Show CUT BANNOCK ORE OREIN IN LOWER TUNNEL People Raise on Ledge From Level The which has been driving a tunnel to intercept the theore ore body In the main shaft has cut the theore ore shot at feet depth and is now up upraising raising to the floor of the shaft says a Bannock correspondent The first ore found was in a body from six to twelve inches wide and showed the value to be at least 50 gold to the ton The quartz is Identical with that In the shaft It looks better in the floor of the tunnel than in the upraise Whop this upraise Is completed a station will be ct in the tunnel and sinking wilt be con continued The company leasing block 2 immediately adjoining on the east tie block while drifting off the main tunnel to reach their 80 ledge found in the shaft yesterday broke into a body of ore fully five feet wide that pans well but because of the broken condition of th surrounding rock it is not as yet determined whether it i ithe the body they have been after The rain eral carrying body is a porphyry and looks like a free milling proposition of good pay val value ue From an underground observation yet without a it looks as If this ore body was ci juSt On the line between the main block and the leasers block and 30 feet to the east and 50 feet to the south of the ore shoot that the company encountered Work of Other Leasers Alex Walker leasing block 3 adjoIning the holding block on the west is drifting off the same tunnel toward his shaft and making good headway On block 8 Noel Cole Smith have gotten 45 feet into the hill with their tun nd to the crosscut the surface exposed ledge that carried free gold They are in hard formation On blocks 4 and 6 the Bannock Mining is working two shifts on Its shaft which is now 20 feet deep on the ledge which has not failed to give up free gold with every shot from the seam which was found near the surface In the crosscut tunnel the easier rock indicates to Superintend eat Percy he is nearing another of the ledges exposed on the surface The shaft has been equipped with a hoist J W Gentry from Round Mountain has purchased a half interest in the lease on block 13 and is sinking a shaft on the ledge that from surface has panned bet better ter than Biose Bros are progressing with their development work by to cut a strong lodge about the biggest on the hill on block 5 In running a crosscut for their 80 ledge Murray Bros on block 9 when in 30 feet and within about 10 feet of their ob obJective point another ledge or It appears to be such which pans 10 values Working Golden See Newton Judson has taken a lease on the north half of the Moscow lode belong lag to the Golden Bee Mining company Fox Leach et ai of Salt Lake and located 2400 feet west of the Nevada Omaha group Judson found float on the ground some time ago and later found the ledge from which he obtained an assay to gold per ton The main ledge runs north and south through the claim and there are from 20 inches to five feet of hard quartz in place As there is a fine tUnnel site development work will consist of drifting on one of the ledges O Its with the other C F resident agent of company is Interested with Mr Judson in the lease The Golden Hub Mining Leasing company has got down to business They have equipped their new cabin and tun tunnel nel entrance with everything necessary to go ahead driving after a high value ledge on the Dig Five lode which side sidelines lines the of the company on the west flanks Haas and Miller leasing on the lower end of the Buzzard group about halt a mile front town started sinking a shaft on their ledge just before the bad weather set in and have had to practically cease operations until conditions obtain They are on a great ore body as indicated in the drift off the short cut into the bill mentioned a few weeks ago and from which assay values If from 12 inches were obtained as aswell well as the matter showing talc carrying pure leaf silver |