| Show LION HILL CON CONI TURNING OUT BIG I Letter of Superintendent to I Shareholder Indicates Fine New Mine at Ophir In response to a request for detailed concerning what is 15 doing at the he Lion Hill Consolidated compan s property In the Ophir district George Georg St Clair has written a local ocal stockholder in the company as fol foi lows J We e have ha just made connection with the ne Chloride Point working tunnel and cut the he main Chloride Point vein about 60 00 feet on a a dip of 30 degrees above the bot torn tom om of the thc lower workings We e are now engaged in blasting and cutting out a station for a temporary temporal windlass and then It t Will take about two wk n straighten out and i lay y rails down l W to i the he face tace of the bottom at which place the he vein ein shows as strong If Jr not stronger than han at any apy place for the entire distance of 1500 feet driven drien on the vein from the surface outcrop the face of the bottom workings being all aU In ore are for fourte n feet across From orom samples that I J have made assays run fro 20 to ZOO SOO 00 ounces silver with some gold and lead The Th vein eln is dipping Into virgin ana an undeveloped ground for several thousand feet ahead of us I naturally look for big results from this south part or cen con cener ter er rather of the Lion Hill Hili Consoli dated Following Is a list of shipments taken from the smelter returns of 0 the ore ex between the point where we broke through with the tunnel and the distance to the tho face of the bottom SlIver Silver Gold Pounds Sold for Lot 1 Ul oz Lot 2 91 1 oz 07 Lot 3 2 oz 15 2012 i 7 Lot 4 I GS 68 oz 27 LotS Lot S 6 59 oz mS Lot 6 59 oz 1 Lot 7 63 oz Os 0 This amounts to nearly showing what the vein Is capable of doing Just Justas as quick as we can connect up every thing hing we can take out shipping ore from the he bottom and the south stops slope on th tunnel level leel where we have two and on half feet of rich shipping ore and eight feet of milling ore We e will be ready to Increase the working force at the mine then hen henAt At the east side tunnel of the north northend northend end nd of the Lion Hill Hili Con we have sunk about 35 feet since we began ond now have lave drifted about 20 feet between t tiray Gra Gray iray Blue line cutting toward the Chloride and North slopes that produced so o many thousand dollars This face of the drift Is highly rain min mineralized and a big body can be expected at any an time However the lime bed is over iver 50 feet teet wide and will have to run 50 0 feet to cut under the Chloride stops slope and feet to cut under the North tope stops They have a little high grade ore at fit athe atthe the he Iron tunnel Everything looks en encouraging encouraging encouraging at that part of the mine and it If f the Lion Hill Hili can get the proper equip equipment equipment equipment ment to develop Its various veins and ore shoots hoots during the year ear of 1909 this Ophir mining district will add another big pro producer producer ducer lucer to be in company compan with Senator Clarks Ophir Hill Hili mines and the CUte CUlt Mining company mines The letter then went ent on to say that three samples of ore which represented the he different t characters of the rock then beIng broken had been mailed with the theetter letter etter These samples were given to Cur Currie Currie Curne rie ne for assay a say and the average pf the three was 12 2 ounces silver 15 13 ii per cent lead ead and LU in gold per pel ton |
