| Show I PARK PICKINGS The Lucy one of the Dupont Com mines ic showing panys minci splendidly The lower tunnel is in sixty feet showing in the boa a fonrfoat vein of ocbre and galena which is good pay ore The vain in the Afghan has been cut and shows eighteen inches 01 vein reseller The Vein wa reached by u tpen cut about twentytwo feet in length The Afghan la located I 900 feet south of the Little Giant I lbs crosscut on the 800 foot level in the White Pine is not yet throng tho vein which is BO far seventy five feet in width A drift is being run east and west On the east ore id commencing to come in and the indications for a fine body jUt ahead are good The Empress one of the Utah Marble and Mining Companys proi pacts in Stake Creek has made a strike recently in the face of the incline I in-cline now down thirtyfive feet The vein is four feet in width and average the entire width 17 The Matilda in Snake Creek Die trict is being pushed ahead The vein whicn we spoke of some time ago as being twenty inches wide averaging ninetyiive ounces in silver is now widening i The Katie owned by James Bowen ia the first west extension of the Silver Bar and Great Western Consolidated A shaft ia down in the creviaa fifteen feet Tbe vein which is very strong ia the same as that of the Sliver Bar and Great Western on the east and the Bowen on the east A ttiike was made in the Glencoe Mine in Red Pine C i J about one half mile above the Homeatake on Tuesday afternoon The tunnel is in about forty feet and the ore taken OCt is black sulphates and galena the galena carrying considerable silver The hanging wall has not been reached yet and the vein matter is three feet wide A few days since the boys in the Laxawaxie the principal mine in the New Bedford incorporation determined deter-mined to test the width of tbe vein in thediscovery shaft It was formerly supposed to be about fourteen feet wide What had been taken for the footwall was picked away and a foot of fine ore averaging 53 was found One assay was made of a choice piece but not the most choice by any means which went 500 With this ore was found about five feet of the peculiar light blue vein matter eo common in the White Pine and Utah 1 mines This confirms the owners in 1 their opinion that they have the Utah vein They will push the tunnel eighty feet further before crosscutting crosscut-ting when they will be nearly 200 I feet under the discovery shaft |
