Show BRISTOL SILVERS DEEP development SHOWS MINE HAS BIG potentialities having recently completed the athe main incline operating shaft from the surface to the foot level of the bristol silver property at pioche it was decided to keep sinking until the 1000 foot level was reached in order to determine the possibilities of the formation at that depth on reaching the 1000 level twenty seven feet of crosscutting to the south opened up the tempest fissure where according 1 to E H snyder who released the information to the daily press six and one half feet of excellent shipping ore was exposed fifteen feet of drifting to the east has been done and the ore found to be strongly persistent in size and values the whole distance when the gypsy a richly mineralized north south fissure is reached it is is expected that the largest ore bodies bodes will be found the ore shoot associated with in intersection of the gypsy and the tempest on its dip of feet between the ind the levels has produced over according to mr snyder in this zone the shoot has shown an average length of feet and an average width of twenty feet the ore developed on the 1000 foot level carries a high excess of iron in addition to from 15 to 22 ounces of silver and 2 per cent copper results of a most ratifying gratifying nature have attended development work on the levels above the 1000 level one ii hundred undred and thirty five feet south of the tempest and sixty feet above the level a face is being advanced measuring six feet high and twenty five feet wide ore from this called averages 12 ounces of silver 14 per cent lead and 1 per cent copper twenty feet above the level and feet east of the big shrinkage from which main production in the and the levels level of the mine has come another system ot of north south fissures has been found which should be of great economic importance to the company here what is apparently a bed of ore measuring thirty feet wide and seven feet thick is being scoped ore from this called will average 25 ounces of silver 7 per cent lead and per cent copper although the in both slopes and apparently lies in a bedded deposit work will be begun immediately ini to ascertain if the ore does not also extend to depth in the fissures in tile the case of both and there are good exposures of ore in the vein making up tip and down in the formation forti lation to develop the strike made in the man argement plans to run a crosscut to reach the new nev fissure system and then raise to the near the foot level and east of any of the old workings ings s on oil this horizon another shoot of shipping Z ore has ha been of tile the f fissure iss u r e picked up tip this deposit which is apparently type averages 18 ounces of silver 14 per cent lead and 2 per cent copper in this a face twenty feet by four feet is being scoped ore is now hoisted directly to the surface up the new inclined shaft where it is loaded into the aerial tramway for transportation to the pioche pacific railroad a distance of two miles J E formerly fori lierly with the walker copper company is in charge of operations at tile the mine as superintendent in |