Show THE LA REINE gintic tintic miner la reine stockholders are feeling jubilant over a strike astrike in the property this week that bids fair to rival any yet made within the domains of its neighbors on godivia mountain which is rapidly becoming known as a cluster of bonanzas for several weeks work has been concentrated on a southwest south west drift seventy feet above the tunnel level which had been reached two years before in following up a small seam of quartz which contained co n bained high values in silver the ore seemed to pinch out and prospecting was directed to other parts of the mine until recently when a round of burleigh holes put in at that point disclosed a breast of coppo copper er quartz five feet across this deposit has been followed on its course for sixty five feet for this entire distance a small seam of quartz continued which has haa since opened into a six foot ledge carrying considerable crystallized lead too together ether with the iron manganese manganese and spar that is almost invariably associated with the blo big ore chutes of that section A fair sample across the face exposed wednesday gave returns of 28 per cent lead while the silver values range from 50 to ounces with a small percentage in copper in the bottom of the drift the ledge is particularly ticul arly strong and is widening 0 out with every foot ahe the fissure in which the ore occurs is a strong one and is cutting the bedding planes on a course thirty degrees east of north in the opinion of an a n eminent local authority who is thoroughly ohly 11 co versant w with 1 th the geological conditions of godiva mountain it is making for t the e mairi main channel which has a strike of about fifteen degrees east of north and following the usual conditions in the lime belt at their junction the ore body will be an immense one the ledge outcrops out crops strong on the surface and has been opened up for a distance of sixty feet on the tunnel level and for feet below a has been sunk in the ore bearing gray lime this lime in which ore way may be encountered at any place has been disclosed for feet in the workings in the humbug humbur 11 mine the ore channels which were cut at about the same level as the present strike in the la reine were followed almost to the surface and were of generous I 1 proportions and excellent values the la reine has feet to the surface and several hundred on the strike of the vein which can rea reasonably S on a bly be b 0 c considered on s dered aa a 3 ground the present satisfactory condition of the property is the result that quickly y followed the determination of the board of directors to concentrate their efforts iiron this ore channel in which values have always been present although not at all times of a commercial comme belal size or value e there seems to be no doubt that it is a continuation of the big fissure that runs for a distance of three miles on its course from the star cons on the he t south to the godiva on the north and which is yielding its treasures to half a dozen big producers |