Show RICH SILVER STRIKE IN WASHINTON spokane wash feb 10 to reach the companas comp anys min ing claims where a rich silver strike is reported to have been made a short time ago H H underhill president an and C M schak secretary of the naso chemical company recently engaged 6 frank kammer aviator to take them thein to the scene in his plane the property is near malott gan county not far from one of the chemical lake deposits of the company the roads are blocked by snow drifts 15 feet deep making travel by automobile Luto mobile impossible the ground was first located by byank griffin and associates of I 1 seattle in 1916 said mr underhill they ran a tunnel t into the side of the hill for sixty one feet without finding anything ng and an in ln 1917 abandoned the property last summer a we relocated the ground consisting of six claims of ik acres and advanced the tunnel late in the fall ten feet in ij we struck a vein which on being assayed showed good values of silver lead zinc and some gold just before the recent snowstorm the men reported striking a true vein 1 which contained as much as 1800 ounces of silver to the ton worth about 1000 at present silver quotations other samples show small quantities of silver the lowest being 23 ounces a and nd 8 ii in gold after we had penetrated vein matter mining engineers expressed belief that we would develop a silver mine there the property belongs to the naso chem chemical ical company |