Show IMPORTANT STRIKE RECORDED IN SILVER KING CONSOLIDATE ED 4 A strike was made in the silver kin K king in 1 consolidated companas comp anys mine at park city about two weeks ago which promises to disclose ore bodies of magnitude and worth such as the management has relied upon encountering ever since the spiro tunnel was started within a day after encountering the ore the showing widened from twelve to thirty six inches the first samples of the ore brought down by consulting engineer harry A lee gave returns of sixty two ounces in silver 36 per cent lead 1298 per cent copper and 2 in gold the strike was made in the park city limestone formation the formation in which many noted ore bodies in the park city district have been developed throughout the years of the famous camps activity officials of the company are highly elated over the discovery because it justifies a deep development campaign the driving of the spiro tunnel which was undertaken der taken entirely on the theoretical geological work done by mr lee more than five years ago the park city formation in which the richest and largest limestone ore bodies of park city have been found lays at considerable depth in the silver king consolidated property the ore channels that have produced millions of dollars in the silver king coalition wore were projected through the property and the spiro tunnel development launched the tunnel was started in august of 1916 and despite the most adverse economic condition daloris dk I 1 loris s brought broughton on by bythe the warthe war the company kept the tunnel work going steadily the tunnel is now in a distance of feet A il big dike the mcgregor bounds the south limit of the territory in which development work had been done when the spiro tunnel reached the mcgregor dike upraises up raises were started north of the dike at places where the ore bearing fissures had been cut the tunnel at these points was in the weber quartzite which is below the ore bearing park city formation the strike is in what is known as the contact raise in a drift which was sta started tt ed at feet above the tunnel level the raise which is feet from the tunnel portal had gone up approximately feet following some fissures which petered out the drift at the foot point was then started to follow a slip at feet to the southwest from the raise the ore was encountered and aa it is being followed the size of the shoot has enlarged the find is in direct line to the southwest from the large silver king ore bodies and mr lee says that there are four ore channels in the newly opened area to he be explored the ore was opened with less than feet of prospecting and feet from where it was projected mr lee said another raise has been started south of the contact raise at the mcgregor dike the spiro tunnel has crossed thedice the dike where it is in the park city formation and specks of copper are being encountered this is also very important as it is the first time the park city formation has deen been opened south of the dike in the hhaynes limestone above the company had large ore bodies so that the showing t of being encountered indicates that the ore channels will be found productive at depth giving the company a large area of virgin ground to explore |