Show RICH ORE AT YANKEE A strike of more than ordinary interest was recently made in the old humbug section of the yankee consolidated property and the work which has been done on this ore during the past week leads the management to believe that the bunch of ore which is now being followed by a is the forerunner of another important ore deposit says the eureka utah reporter superintendent lewis OMer merriman riman states that lie he first located the ore in a drift which was being driven toward the south and that the point where the strike was made is perhaps not more than twenty five feet from the surface the ore is now being followed by a and it is making off into virgin ground which no doubt adds greatly to the importance of the new find during the past week as the work progressed the ore body has varied in size being anywhere from two to four feet in width the values have remained pretty much the same as when the ore was first encountered and an average sample shows ounces silver 30 gold and 20 per cent lead other picked samples have shown as much as ounces in silver 64 gold and 30 per cent lead mr merriman says that the ore is quite similar to that which was found in this property many years ago when it first became productive at a time when it was owned by uncle jesse knight in the older workings of the yankee leasing operations are going on in a satisfactory manner some good zinc and lead ore is being mined at this time the leasers leaders are unable to ship on account of the scarcity of railroad cars fully tons of 40 per cent zinc ore is now awaiting shipment and enough lead ore to fill a couple more cars is also in the bins this ore has been mined from the blocks of ground which are being worked by irwin spriggs the mellor brothers and by randall and cannon forty per cent zinc ore is worth in the neighborhood of 40 per ton at this time although the zinc market seems a trifle unsettled |