Show i I STRIKE STEAMBOAT it I j Most Cheerful Tidings Prom tho I s I Breast of 2000Foot Tunnel t t From Gorman AVhitt of the com I h 1t panys group I oC mines In Snake creel ti out of Par City came the assurance Li on Saturday night that the main tunnel 1 tun-nel on the Steamboat had brokcn into I M I the ledge l for which the management bpsun driving two years ago and to Inquire t lu In-quire Into the nature of the develop ment President James larrcll to whom c tt i 4 the message came wilt leave for camp l tomorroy morning Mr Farr II who t was seen yesterday pleaded that par l1 ticulars of the disclosure were meager At i i as they reached hlin by telephone but Iji ij he was assured that the composition 11 of the mineral and the characteristics jIklL t 01 the ledse were identical with those t that exist In the tunnel above and from which the inanacement was driven by r the heavy How of water In the ledge below is found a dark graphitic substance sub-stance which might have been a sulphide sul-phide of silver above although Mr Farrell Far-rell confessed that they had never sought an assay on It What the width nf the ledge Is the foreman had no Idea l In fact he v > as a little excited said Mr Fnrrell however unbecoming that maybe may-be In the experienced miner In the original workings on the Steamboat that wore prosecuted at a period outdatlng the acquisition of the group by the present company some very highgrade silver ore was encountered encoun-tered and several lots forwarded to the valley smelters by Mr Deckwlth and his partner It was to till this that a tunnel v as driven and with water pouring In upon them t here the Idug J drive which has taken them In over 2000 feet < t already was begun With the management mining circles generally will hope that the Steamboat has reached the channel of enllh for which it has been persevering l The company is controlled by Messrs James Farrell VIndsor V RIce Barney Bar-ney Riley and Robert Kimball with some interests at Muskegon Mich and with the proper demonstration will no doubt precipitate a boom In Snake creek |