Show MONTANA V 5 r A large body of high grade silver ore more ahan n eight feet wide length and depth not known ha in the wenger mine just east of philipsburg philip asburg illiam scott and robert mcdonel who have a lease arid and bonbon 1 and on the property the strike was made while miners were sip sinking k b to get under a large deposit of high grade manga manganese se ore that was struck in one of the drifts A visitor to the properties of the jib consolidated mining ain company last week found the company busy prospect ing its new high 6 grade ore bodies to determine their extent and richness drifts are being 6 run and the body will be mined separately the hi higher 9 her grade portion will be sacked and shipped to the smelter and the lower grade portion will be mixed with the mill feed the present mill heads are running cy around 18 per ton against 11 t to 0 o 12 per ton a few weeks ago the high grade faces as near as can be sam sampled pled are assaying from 70 to for widths of three and four feet in sampling the company attempts to remove all the rock that assays essays nominally phenomenally phe high small amounts of high grade crude ores are being shipped to the smelter and the company also has made shipments of the top streak concentrates cen being recovered on the wilfley tables this top streak will assay from to oz in gold about 70 oz silver and about 55 per cent lead per ton in order to get s some 0 me idea as to the value of different grades of ore in in the high grade ore body of jib consolidated one t ton on was shipped to the smelter and gave returns of oz of gold |