Show 00 STRIKE IN THE TENNESSEE report comes from chloride says the miner of kingman arizona that the tennessee mine has opened one of the greatest bodies of galena ore ever found in that property the find being made on the 1100 level the company had just finished this lift and had run off on a small stringer of ore which they found to open into a great chamber of lead an immense flow of water followed the cutting of the big ore body and the pumps are now taxed to their capacity to keep it down the tennessee mine has been operated the past three years by the needles mining smelting smelling Sm elting company an offshoot of the united states smelting smelling Sm elting refining mining company and the ore from the levels above the has been shipped to needles for treatment some months ago it was found necessary to sink feet farther and the present strike is the result the new ore body is not in the line with the old bodies of ore and the management believe they have cut into a new shoot that did not come up through the worked part of the vein and that it may be found virgin to the surface the vein is five feet wide of solid galena and how much more will be cut remains to be seen work on the property is being rushed and it is probable that great ore bodies will be found along the level in the old shoots shipments are soon to be made to the smelter the opening of this new ore body gives added life to the town of chloride which in a way has been dependent on the success of this mine while everybody be lieveld that better things would be found below the 1000 level it was to the company an unknown quantity and yet to be discovered with the opening of a better body of ore at such a depth new life should be injected into the big veins along the lode and the companies owning the various sections of the great vein should get busy and tap the bodies below the old levels |