| Show CROSSCUT 90 FEE FEET OF ORE RE Bewildering Results Are Ob Obtained Obtained tamed in Shoshone Quick Quicksilver Quicksilver silver siver Mine From a tunnel which has ha been bon driven 2 feet teet on the great gat rhyolite ledge which courses cours through the property of the Sho Shoshone Shoshone Shoshone shone Quicksilver company near Austin Austn Nev Ney crosscuts have htwe been ben run both ways a total distance of 90 9 feet fet all al in high grade cinnabar ore Surface outcrop outcroppings outcroppings outcroppings pings indicate that the crosscut may be driven 2 feet before the walls wails wall of the vein are encountered For the te amount of development work done it i is unquestionably the greatest showing of cinnabar ore in the country if I not in the world W V J Davis of ot this city secretary secreta of the company says that he has ha quit figuring upon the probabilities of the ore bodies in the Shoshone Ites property the result is too bewildering The New Idria mine of at California is mining and reducing ore which averages 33 3 of at one per cent quicksilver It I pro produces pro produces duces SOO S flasks a month or 00 of quicksilver The lowest estimate yet made of the average of all al of the ore are opened in the Shoshone mine is 25 per cent celt quick quicksilver quicksilver silver siver and ad it Is entirely likely that the average with the ore virtually quarried and reduced run rn of mine will average nearer 4 i per cent quicksilver Blocks of the ore are several feet thick run as a high as 20 2 per cent mercury mercur Earning Possibilities Are Great With rUh furnaces of 10 tons daily daly capacity which the Shoshone company Intends to it is esti estimated estimated Install the coming summer est mated that it I will produce quicksilver at ata ata ata a cost of 3 a flask of 75 pounds figuring the average contents of the ore are at only two per cent cent That would mean the pro production production pr of 50 5 flasks fask a day which with mercury mercur ducton at Its Is present price of 50 5 a flask fask would net the company more than 2000 20 a day With the supply of ore as it i would now seem virtually unlimited mul multiplying multiplying the reduction facilities several everal times would appear to be entirely pos possible possible sible Tho The Davis brothers in developing the Shoshone mine and preparing for tor production production tion have proceeded upon almost ultra ulra ultraconservative ton conservative lines lires 11 They have from the first been confident that they had ha something some something something thing better beter than a gold mine and have declined attractive offers for con control control trot of the company No debts have been has been made contracted and no attempt to boom the stock stock Testing the reduction possibilities of the ore with wih retorts retort enough nough quicksilver has been produced In that relatively expensive way to pay for formost formost formost most of the development The ore are Is found tp W be susceptible to simple treat treatment treatment ment meat with complete saving of ot the valuable valuable valuable ble contents |
