Show OR ORE FROM WEETER DE LA MARE GROUND SELLS ON BASIS OF SILVER the weeter de la mare syndicate which is s develop I 1 ing inan all old prospect property about ten miles east of union ville b nevada mention of which was made in the min mining ing review a few issues back early last week received settlement for its initial trial shipment of ore the consignment aggregated less than twenty tons and was iwas sent to market because the operators had to come to salt lake on personal I 1 business matters and also because they were anxious to know just how to sort the ore in order to get best market results these matters having been all attended to both mr weeter and mr de la mare returned to camp about a week ago with the expectation of remaining at the property until christmas time when another shipment will be made considering considering I 1 the handicap under which we have had to get under way since since the ground was acquired related mr de la mare we are anything but discouraged over the prospect of making a good mine we had hardly got i started when as you know fire destroyed everything we had above ground aground that necessitated a suspension of work uni til we could get in materials build a new cabin stock it with household necessities a supply of provisions etc that has all been done and we now are ready to resume work and further determine the value of the ground that looks mighty good to us the ore shipped was sold on control assays essays showing gozs silver with a little gold and a little copper with silver quoted at per ounce on the day of settlement i the ore brought per ton after deducting freight sampling and treatment charges the net proceeds amounted to I 1 per ton had we been better acquainted with the characteristics of the ore and had we exercised better judgment in sorting I 1 lam am sure that the shipment could have been held up to gozs or better per ton but the sampling of the shipment and the string of assays essays we had made of the various characters of the ore encountered will make sorting a simple problem from now on the led ledge gefrom from which the trial shipment was made car ries lles from irom tour four to eight feet of ore and a second tunnel has been advanced to a point where it will tap the ledge on the waite side of the wedge shaped porphyry dike that in traded eded and d caused the vein to dip in opposing directions linking sinking and driffin drifting 9 in the ore will be the pro gramme from s now ow until the is expected to be holidays and a good showing de made all going well I 1 hill just recently y a couple of miners prospecting over the f 1 franj rom where work is progressing uncovered what undoubtedly r is ls an extension sion of the ledge before coming 6 to T fining lake bars weeter and de la mare granted these miners beeh feet a lease e on a block of the ground around about 1100 or 1200 I 1 stated fron i where here they are mining it the new ew showing it was who looked ed good and the they y were promised by the men 01 0 1 eford before avre granted the e lease that work would be under way 1 plate the return of weeter and de la mare marc who bontem at their ali the th 6 early installation of a co compressor mp ressor and power drill 4 ir own workings |