Show STRIKE IN THE AUSTIN C W earl who came down from Anie american rican fork canyon to celebrate the fourth reports a most important strike in the austin property of which lie he is superintendent the new strike was made in a twenty foot upraise from am the old austin tunnel and consists of about eighteen inches of high grade sand carbonate with liberal chunks of solid galena scattered through the vein the strike looks so good that a shipment of ore sacks were ordered and taken back with the men when they returned to camp the miners have not developed the strike sufficiently to determine its extent but from all appearances they are just on oil the outside of a big body of approximately ore superintendent earl also reports another important strike in tile the same tunnel but about seventy five feet from the other this is the opening of a four foot fissure liberally sprinkled with chunks of gray copper so some me of which assay as high as sixteen ounces silver eighteen zal ounces in in gold 16 per cent copper and 40 per cent lead this formation is so loose that timbering will be necessary before the extent and real significance Z 1 of the strike can be determined the austin company last year drove a foot drift from the old earl eagle b tunnel to within about feet of where it should intersect the fissures opened up tip last week an extension of this drift would cut the two fissures at a depth of about feet deeper than they were encountered above but mr earl says that lie he will follow the ore at least until it is developed to a reasonable certainty that tile the ore goes down john F bradshaw jacob evans J C jensen C W E earl arl and E edward dward southwick are the chief officials and stockholders in tile the austin company |