Show GOOD NEWS EH03I NEWTON Tom Ferguson Returns From the Sheep Rock Mines Tom Ferguson president of the Sheep Rock Mining company is back I from a visit to the mine which is located lo-cated in Newton district Beaver coun ty It will be remembered that some five weeks ago a second vein of quartz running high in gold and of a free milling character was discovered on the property of the Sheep Rock Some of the samples showed free gold in liberal lib-eral quantities and the showing in the new strike was so good that work I was temporarily suspended on the orig inal vein which was about 10 feet wide I and ran about 10 a ton in gold f Mr Ferguson went down to the property about four weeks ago and inaugurated a vigorous development i policy on the new find with the result that a shaft is now down to a depth of forty feet and the vein which at the point of discovery showed up four feet between walls maintains that width at the greater depth the quality qual-ity being of the same general character charac-ter and still showing free gold While he was very much pleased with the I showing in the new discovery Mr Ferguson had no notion of abandoning abandon-ing the disclosure on which the company com-pany originally basedtits hopes and for the development of which it was organized or-ganized On the contrary he at once ordered that work be resumed and intends in-tends to continue the blocking out of the ore bodies in the lowgrade vein in order to have everything in readiness I for the mill which it is intended to erect next spring The two veins while lying on the same location are only 500 feet apart and while there is no comparison as to the values of the ores in each both are free milling and the company will handle both ores in the same mill Asked as to when the company would erect its mill Mr Ferguson replied Just as soon as we get authority from the directors We have enough ore insight in-sight now in the two veins to warrant a mill and the ore is all of such a character char-acter that it can be worked by the free mill and amalgamation process My idea is to put up a stamp mill with pans and settlers and to use vanners in connection with the mill |