Show LLTA OF THE WEST STRIKE Highgrade Lead Ore East of the Humbug Special Correspondence Eureka June HOne of the most important and extensive ore finds oft J the season has just been made by Messrs Barlow and Hindmarsh in the Lily of the West which lies about a mile and a half east of the Humbug on the old Goshen trail The Lily is an old property but has not been worked at all for fifteen years and never until it passed into the present hands who are leasing fias I showed a pound of ore Resuming work at the bottom of the old shaft which is 200 feet deep adrift a-drift was started and before a distance I of ten feet had been made a body of lead ore was cut that has since developed devel-oped into i a tremendous chute Some little exploiting work has t eSt l done on the 100 level just enough to I determine the existence of the ore body which will enable the leasers to upraise from the 200 I I At present the ore channel discloses more than 100 feet of vertical sloping ground measuring perhaps six feet in I I thickness by as much or more in length They have broken and raised at least four cars of ore and have completed I com-pleted arrangements with Messrs Taylor I Tay-lor Brunton to ship a car every other dayThe The mineral is a lead carbonate showing small silver values but going as high as 76 per cent in lead The strike has much significance because I it demonstrates fully the eastern continuity con-tinuity of the ore zone Ezra Thompson Thomp-son of Salt Lake has a bond on the Lily Preparations are being made for II a steam plant |