Show GOOD SHOWING IN GOLCONDA american sumpter ore the development or rather the prospecting work which has so far been done at the golconda mine consists of driving a drift on the foot level northward toward the columbia ground and toward ore bodies which were reported to have been opened in the golconda during the period of its previous operation but which cannot be examined at this time on account of caved ground this drift on the foot level struck the beginning of the ore body about three weeks ago where the ore streak showed eighteen inches in width and assayed 28 40 per ton the drift has haa now been extended into the ore about forty five feet and the face of the drift arifi shows the vein six feet wide between walls of which three feet on the hanging wall side is high grade or shipping ore from the point where the ore was first encountered assays essays from samples taken as the work advanced have shown from the 2540 first obtained respectively and 71 while a sample just taken from the present face showed an assay value of A sample from across the face of the shipping ore shows an average value of 55 per ton while a ten ton sample taken after the vein was first opened and sampled at the golconda mill shows an average value of 30 per ton the milling ore which has been taken out while drifting has been sampled at the mill and shows an average value of 15 work is being pushed on this drift as rapidly as possible and as soon as sufficient ground is opened to properly block out the ore will begin and the mill will be put in operation although it is not the intention to begin operations at the mill until a sufficient amount of ore is developed to keep it running when once started the appearance of the ore at the face of the drift together with its assay value is i most gratifying to all ai and id sl shows I 1 ow S a value much greater than at any time calculated on oil or anticipated |