Show The Tip Top Commenting on thfc Tip Top group of mines on Florida mountain Silver City Idaho and on which an option was recently re-cently obtained from lion W S Mc Cornlck of this city by the Trade Dollar company the Silver City Avalanche says The Tip Top property lies Just west of the Trade Dollar Consolidated com panyB ground and can be readily pros 1 peeled by crosscuts from the company tunnels The Tip Top is opened by shaft to a depth of 300 feet disclosing a large ledge of lowgrade ore The Jeclge at the 200foot level is over fifty feet wide between walls All of the claims are patented except the Mountain Moun-tain Boy The claims were opened by George V Bryan several years ago but the grade of the ore was not sufficiently high to make the proposition profitable with hoisting machinery and a long haul to mill Comparatively little development de-velopment work has been done on the group but we may look for extensive I exploration SupU Hutchinson states that the Tip Top ground will be crosscut cross-cut as soon as an exhaust fan is procured pro-cured to provide ventilation That the new ground will prove valuable there Is hardly a doubt The Tip Top at one time was productive pro-ductive of some vary high grade ore and Mr McCornlck has previously rejected re-jected a number of flattering offers |