Show THE BANK OF ENGLAND sun richfield utah the bank of england property on gold mountain has again jumped into prominence and is being made the subject of considerable talk in mining circles litigation and other disagreeable handicaps have kept this property in the background for a year or more but now it begins to look as if success is to be the reward of patience and faith and that the bank of england will soon be added to the list of producing mines on gold mountain word has just drifted down to richfield of a very important strike in the bank of england the company has been running a cross cut tunnel at a distance of feet from rom the main tunnel an ore vein was cut after drifting on this vein and following it for 65 feet it developed into an ore body from three to eight feet in width the orb is a black manganese quartz the quality that always courts investigation from min ing men it pans quite freely an assay of the ore gave a value in gold of 8 per ton it is the first gold bearing ore yet encountered in the mine A gold mountain man tells us that this new strike is causing a sensa tion in the camp and the opinion prevail that the bank of england was well named the vein just cut is nearly perpendicular active development work on the vein is now being prosecuted and the company is sanguine that the ore is identical in quality with that of the famous annie laurie ore |