Show I THE RED CLOUD Believed That the Apex Has Been nt Last Uncovered J H Hedges of the Red Cloud at Sunshine who came in from there Thursday night informs The Herald that it is believed that the apex to the ore body of that locality has been found on the Red Cloud ground For the last few months work has been going on in the Red Cloud property pro-perty in the sinking of a shaft but a short time ago an open cut was started on another portion of the claim near the Old Fred and at a depth of five I feet a body of solid ore ten feet in width was uncovered and from every indication this is the apex of the ledge in that locality The is almost identical in ore identcal appearance ap-pearance to the Sunshine ore and there is no doubt but that Messrs Hedges Wickersham and Milner have opened up a bonanza The old shaft in the meantime is I being sunk as rapidly as possible and now at a depth of 330 feet the bottom is in ax black shale that is highly mineralized and full of sulphuretts and it is believed to be the capping of the ore body On Tuesday an accident occurred in the Red Cloud shaft from which two men miraculously escaped death The night shift in leaving work left a missed hole and when James Biddlecome and his partner began drilling the powder exploded cutting Biddlecome badly on the hands and bruising his knees His partner fortunately got off with hardly a scratch Mr Biddlecome came in with Mr Hedges and is now at SL Marks hospital I hos-pital |