| Show HECLA MINES RICH ORE BODIES Disclosures Just Made Show Mine Has a Fortune Practically Practically Practically in Sight A discovery dIscover has been made down at atthe atthe atthe the Hecla property in Beaver county which means the tile production of a II great rent deal of ore and the earning of big money by the company compan If the proposition proposition proposition tion pans pane out as its it now seems certain to do Manager J M I Reynolds who has just returned from the mine where fifty tons of good stuff was loaded load d for mar market market market ket during his stay sta said yesterday Wo We recently employed George Weston Western as ns superintendent of at the mine After he had spent some time sizing up conditions both under and above ground he ex expressed expressed pressed presed tho the opinion that the ore we were mining occurred In hi a bedded vein eln in the limo lime overlying the quartzite Owing to what was disclosed in our upper tunnel workings he stated his belief belleC that due to the erosion the ledge would be found at no great depth under the surface and following approximately the contour of at atthe the hillside Down the hill hilt about feet Ceet below tho the upper workings we had sent a tunnel in some little distance without striking the ore art In the upper workings we had gone through the ore and md back eack Into the lime with the tunnel and the mining being done was In a raise going up with about the contour of the hill bill These rhese facts gave Superintendent Weston Yeston his pointer and he suggested that he be allowed to cut back and to the left leCt from the lower tunnel at nt a short distance from its mouth to see If his theory was cor correct correct correct He did the work and cut the ore are ore that assays asas 53 58 per cent lead 13 B ounces of at silver and 1 ounce in gold to the ton We Ve have since estimated that the ore are orein orein in this bedded or blanket deposit is ap approximately approximately proximately GOO feet up and down the hill hlll hillside hillside side sille from a point above to a point below the lower tunnel We Ve now believe that other ledges back of this one on will be found paralleling It and that fortunes will be dug from them If the body bod of ore works out according to estimates and the values given gen here come anywhere an where near being representative taUve of oC the value of or the ore are the company ought to clean up about net from this single shoot At any rate it is certain certain tain tam that the company com pan has opened the theore theore theOre ore in the lower workings as stated and that means a great deal whether the theore theore ore oro proves continuous over the area de described described described scribed or not |
