Show STAR CONSOLIDATED SNOWING Immense Body of Good Ore Is Exposed Ex-posed Special Correspondence Mammoth April 29Mr Will Lawrence Law-rence superintenlent of the Star Con soIdated group of mines advised your 1 correspondent during an interview on I the companys premises today that labor la-bor was being prosecuted chiefly in the way of slnllng In a whoIy satisfactory manner Three shifts are engaged In sinking the main shafwa3 using two BurleJgh power drills having obtained a depth to the 500 where a station will be put In at once but sinking will be continued to the 700 before any drift log is done on the lower ore bodies From the 400foot level the shaft Is being be-ing cut to accommodate double compartment com-partment for two cages and a man way In the judgment of 11 Lawrence it will be necessary very soon to obtain greater hoisting facilities when two eighty horsepower boilers and I Cor lss engine will be purchased A force of thirtyfour men arc employed at present serving in various capacities and when conditions will admit of more extensive exploiting to be adOpted when the 700foot level is reached the number will ppbably be augmented to ffyMost Most if not all of the ore extracted recently has been taken from the 350 foot level The last shipment consistng carload lots netted the of two neted company a return of IS2 ounces gold 70 ounces silver and 9 per cent lead From an estimate made on ore shipments since Jan 1 of thIs year aggregatng twelve cars it Is found that gold predominates showing a percentage of 63 as against the other metals Two big ore chutes are known to exist in the North Star claim from Which repeated lots have sampled from 10 to 12 In gold and actual ac-tual measurements have been made on an immense ore body near the 175foot level said to contain 100000 tons of gold ore giving even better results As stupendous stu-pendous and possibly as extravagant as such I statement may appear to the casual reader It will be remembered by mining men who have been identified with this locality for a period coverIng I twenty years or more that in the Cerro Gordo tunnel as well as in the Gundry bfth Star Consolidated holdings ex trejelY rich ore was obained In fact an Qffer was onCl male and accepted whereby the owners of the Cerro Gordo I were tq be paid 150000 and when an earnest was posted equaling oneslxth of the purchase money the owners re fused to conclude the deal Great predictions pre-dictions are made relative to the future of tie Star group and men whose opinions have weIght in this and ever mining communiy say unhesitatngly that it appears as if the Star ground was the intersectng point of three or more great lodes |