Show RICH STRIKE IN LEADVILLE MINES gerlack nev oct 22 the leadville mines has a very important development on foot level it is from this level that so far over has been extracted and now it looks as though the richest ore is just ahead of the face of the drift on the this drift recently entered a fault and is now about through it the face shows some very rich ore of a character that leads the management to believe that they have struck one of the rich ore shoots that were often encountered in the early days of the mine it was in the ore just beyond this fault that the old management found their best ore the formation in which the face of the drift now is conforms exactly with that shown in the old workings the previous management never made much attempt to develop the property below the foot level the new owners followed a different policy and instead of working through the old harnan shaft started their work vork through a tunnel that cut in at about the foot level of the shaft from this tunnel a was put down to the and then drifting along the vein disclosed the downward extension of the ore shoots the drift from the is now in about feet and has passed the point that the old harnan shaft would have penetrated had it been continued to the foot level it is just beyond this point that the new strike has been made for months the leadville has been sending out about three carloads of concentrates a month this brought their gross production to about a month heretofore the mill has been handicapped for sufficient water supply recently this has been overcome by the laying of more pipeline also the development ot of water in the mine mine the mill capacity has now been considerably increased and this with the opening of new ore bodies has greatly increased production the gross production of the leadville now is well above a month |