Show i prince condoll consolidated abed shaft i I 1 str strikes kes ore ahead of T time ime confirmation of the report that the prince consolidated mining smelting smelling Sm elting companas Comp anys main working shaft had entered a mineralized for formation m aaion at a depth of approximately feet was received a week ago by A H godbe president in a telegram from M C godbe manager who was a at t the mine manager dodies godbee telegram state ed the strike had indications of being important por 1111 tant and that the bottom of the three compartment shaft was in ore shot through with ath galena this development was hardly expected at the present depth of the shaft tor for the first of the beds discovered by diamond drilling operations some time ago lies at t the foot level this bed called the silver bed was 0 thirtyfour hirty thirty four feet thick it Is said owing to J he force ce of the water used in diamond 0 rilling drilling no core po was g obtained except for the le 1611 1 last eleven ven feet of this bed although the v rich ch ore was washed away from the core and only the coarse or low grade material left average assays essays of the mineral f from rom this bed showed 25 ounces of silver and gold per ton when the no 4 diamond drill hole was put down at approximately the foot horizon a bed of iron ore was pierced As assays essays of 0 the core failed to show commercial values this development was disregarded at the time since drill hole no 4 was put down a distance of feet north of the shaft mr godbe feels that it may be entirely possible that at the point the work is being done now the mineralizing mineral izing solutions may have been strong enough to enrich the formation more thoroughly another possibility according to officials of the com company must be taken into consideration arati era tion on and that is if the shaft has entered an east west fissure extending off from the great western fault important mineralize tion tion ma may y pg be reached before the silver beds on the foot horizon is entered moreover since all of the work previously done by the prince consolidated company has been done east of the deep shaft on the other side of the great western fault and as operations erat ions carried on at present are in territory to the west of the fault in virgin ground possibilities probably exist it is said that have not been thought of the fissure veins that traverse the prince formation have a northwest southeast strike with a slight dip to the east in width they vary from a few inches to six and fourteen feet in some sections near the bed before the completion of the railroad to the prince property all of the mining was confined to these veins shipments of ore from which assayed as follows per ton first class ore 1497 ounces of silver per cent lead and in gold second class ounces of silver gold and per cent lead As the veins are said to be identical to those in the old pioche district on the north side of the hill the management thought that exploration of the quat qua zite underlying the limestone would pay before sinking through he limestone diamond mon d drilling was done mid two beds of bre ore discovered at depth of 85 feet and 1085 feet respectively it is in the quartzite on the contact of which the second bed was found that the company expects to find the richest from the tact fact that in the older mines of the pioche district tle the great bonanza ore deposits were all found in n this formation in the fissure veins |