Show GREAT ORE SHOOT HAS NINETYNINE Ribs of Gray Copper Four Feet Thick Appear in Giant Ore Body An re shoot at least twentythree feet wide and seventy feet long with ore conditions improving in the face of the east drift In the north face of the crosscut and in the bottoms of and shaft describes in brief the condition on and below the com corn NinetyNine Copper level of the mine at Good Springs Nev NeY ac according according cording to Manager J B Jenson who has just returned from the property The crosscut shows ribs three feet and four feet thick of gray copper which carries around 50 per cent of red metal and which of course is so heavy that And very rapidly it runs into tonnage not while tests of average values are yet complete Mr Jenson believes that the entire great body bod will ship to good advantage without sorting The ore situation in the mine has been Improving steadily with every foot of work performed since Mr 1 lr Jen Jenson Jenson son Eon went to the mine about six weeks Ore has been coming in more ago solidly soll l as the east drift on the foot level Jevel has been extended on the strike of the vein the crosscut from th from that level is 15 yet In ore on the hanging wall side the shaft which at twenty feet teet from the level had eight inches of ore on the east side was a afew afew afew few feet teet further down entirely in ore Rich Illch Ground Assured It is the Intention to push the shaft down to the level where drifts will be run both ways when if the theore theore theore ore body simply Imply holds the proportions at this time indicated there will be ground to provide shipments for a long time to come It is the in intention intention intention to commence shipping regu regularly regularly regularly as soon as the level shall been opened While the Good Springs district Is thus given a new copper mine of great promise its zinc properties have been deprived of the prosperity which they were enjoying a few months ago The sudden drop in ln the price of spelter to less than Sc 60 a pound has rendered un unprofitable unprofitable unprofitable profitable shipping to the Kansas smelters their nearest market ana production has been suspended It is isa isa Isa a hard blow for the district for tor it has several mines In which the breaking down of zinc ore of good quality Is almost like quarrying limestone |