Show THE GREAT BEL BELMONT MONT STRIKE tonopah To miner the greatest strike ever made 1 in tono to pah occurred this week in the on the th 8 east drift from the crosscut crossed t in the bel mont on tuesday at the depth of 20 feet a rich body of ore was encountered which shows assays essays of 1600 1700 and 1800 a ton the has passed through four fo feet showing these uniform values and anntte the entire bottom is now covered with the rich est ore ever found in this district not even excepting the best in the mizpah sample assays essays clear across the bottom of the average a ton from present indications there is a large body of this marvelously rich ore and it is undoubtedly the greatest strike ever made in the world to fully appreciate the importance of this new development it must be remembered that it is not merely a small ledge of phan phenomenally ome nally rich ore but is a stringer in the heart of the great belmont ledge which is known to be 83 feet wide and which will run a ton clear across A prominent mining expert who visited the belmont yesterday states that the ledge is without doubt the largest and richest ever found int he world and he predicts that the output of the belmont alone will equal the production of the comstock to date montana tonopah the rich ledge that was struck at a depth of 38 feet in the on the level and was afterward encountered on the level has now been opened up in the southwest drift at a distance of feet from the shaft the the face of the drift has exposed six feet of ore of the same character as that encountered in the the development work now done on this ledge proves it to be one of the strongest and richest in the district the passed through the ledge diagonally for a distance of sixteen feet and the ledge at that point is calculated to be fully nine feet in width the ore is all of a very high grade and there is a two foot streak running over 1000 the trend of this ledge is 16 degrees north of west which would carry it through the sand grass and red plume and very close to the golden anchor shaft the exact figures in regard to the shipment or ore from the montana tonopah have been furnished to the miner the shipment consisted of twenty five tons one half of which was first class and ono one half second class ore and it netted the con company PanY after the payment of freight and all other charges a little over or about a ton I 1 |