Show NEW ORE CUT IN TINTIC COALITION frank thornburg who is directing direction 6 work at the prop erty ty of the tintic gintic coalition company in the southern part of the district was in eureka about the middle of the month and gave out the information that new neav ore has been encountered in that property says the eureka reporter the extent of the discovery is not yet known as the e miners have not had sufficient time to open up the deposit posit but according accor dingi to mr Thornburg the strike has ul the earmarks of a nice ore body the ore was found in a feet below the tunnel level vel and about 2500 feet from the portal tile the win airie ze was as first sunk stink feet where it encountered two bi big veins then a drift was sent out a hundred feet to the west where a good showing of quartz appeared and by sinking about fifty feet in this quartz formation the ore was found the width of the quartz vein where the ore was found is about eighteen feet wide and the walls indicate that the width will increase rapidly with depth the ore carries good values in both lead and silver years ago the mine shipped with some regularity but the ore previously mined carne came from sections much nearer the surface than where the present find is located although the ore was opened up only feet below the tunnel level it is at a depth of more than feet below the surface and bears out the theory of mr thornburg that the real values will be found at depth at any rate it is a very important discovery and will act as a stimulus to the development program which has been going on at this property for a long time |