| Show ORE BODY 41 FEET IN RYE PATCH CON Last Ten Feet of Crosscut Shows Ounces Silver Silvera a Ton TonI I feet of commercial ore ores at least last 14 feet of it of o shipping grade and the east wall of the chamber not ot et In sight Such is s the situation In Inthe Inthe Inthe the crosscut which is being driven at atthe tho the face of the lower tunnel In the theU Rye U e Patch Consolidated company es estate estate estate tate at Rye Ryo Patch P toh Nov NOT according to advices received yesterday by J P Dalley Dailey secretary of ot the Rye Patch Leasing company from Gen Gan General General eral Manager D W Jeffs Jetts The ore Is 19 a black sulphide with silver Buyer values predominating although it carries some Borne lead zinc and copper and a of ot gold Samples sent by Mr Jeffs JeUs which he said Bald represented the tho last ten ion en feet of at the crosscut as assayed sayed ayed yesterday gave returns of ol Oi ounces silver silvor to the ton 44 per cent lead 22 per pr cent zinc and 15 16 per cent copper Four Jour feet of the tha ore are further back In the tha crosscut previously sam Earn sampled sampled pled showed about the same values while the remainder of ot the great ore body Is uld to be all of good milling grade The showing according to its pres present present ent eat appearance is one of ot the most re remarkable remarkable remarkable that has been opened in any western mine within a long time for Indications are that the ore are chamber which has boon been broken Into Is at least feet long and It may be 25 feet Wider The showing at the present stage of development would not be so formidable were It not for the tha history of ot the mine it being well known that something like of ore was taken in the early days from like cham bers bars the level of ot the upper tun tunnel tunnel nel flat which is about 80 SO feet fact above the lower tunnel The new pew work is sim simply simply ply ly providing proof that the th old ore chambers go down downTo downTo downTo To Connect With Slow Blow progress is being being made mad a driving the th tunnel on account of ot bad air About 25 2 feet teet ahead of ot the present face of the crosscut connection will wilt bo be made with a thus providing ventilation The was sunk In an ore body which it would now seem may dip into the body upon which the crosscut is being driven A raise is being driven from the cross crosscut crosscut crosscut cut and in that It 1 is said the ore are shows increased values Tho The ore chamber was encountered by driving northward on a fissure which was cut by the tunnel The course of ot the tunnel was north of east it having been headed beaded for the vein eln in which the was sunk from the upper level leel When the fissure was first encountered It was six feet wide wid and the values were low drifting upon it showed steadily Increasing IncreasIng ing values until at the point considerable cons ore appeared and th walls of ot the fissure sure began besan to spread At 50 5 feet in the drift a crosscut was wa driven dr ven westward 12 feet feet when the foot wall wal was wa encountered Then the cross crosscut crosscut crosscut cut was extended eastward in search of tin th opposite wall which has not yet been round found Additional rails rail and cars ca for the tunnel have been ordered and other arrange arrangements ments are being made for conducting work upon a larger scale The high grade de ore is being sacked for shipment and if the present showing continues ex extensive soon shipping will wi be under way very ver |
