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Show I: iTHREE MILES OF ORE f 1 Extraordinary Disclosures in t tha Balaklala. l. 1 1 FIELD MANAGER IN T0WN 1 1' f; Western Exploration Co.'s Big Acquisition. y 1 Wailing on. Furnaces to Begin Reimbursement Reim-bursement of Those Who Have ' Developed the Group. O ' It has now been conclusively demonstrated demon-strated that ore bodies upon which the .Western Exploration company of this Slty Is founding another great copper, jold and silver-bearing proposition in ,ho Balaklala group, Shasta county, b i California, are continuous for at least y hrce miles, said Grant Snyder, field I Manager for the big corporation, on Ills arrival from the west yesterday, md furnaces only are now required to blaco It" among the most productive In I he country. Recent developments on he enormous ledge, which reveals a I Vldth of over 500 feet on the surface, 1 iiavc all emphasized this, while a dls- Iosurc In hitherto unexplored ground IL vhlle assessment work was being: done pens up another great possibility II Wong an entirely new meridian. The H Jnorc important of the chapter of I itrikes made during the year, however, I & that just made In what Is known as Ihe 'lower tunnel," where the copper ulphides have been uncovered, and thlch reopens the old Balaklala mine iroper, tliat was mined so extensively U jor gold In former days. This latest Hscovery Is two and a half miles west .Hi C a similar one on what Is known as r( he Early Bird claim, the ores In each j-iv nalntalnlng an average better than 3 er cent copper, with good values In old and silver. Equally as Important l' i a discoveryof a similar class of ore jjj half-mile east of the Early Bird, Uj hile between these points Is the great j re body In which Is blocked out over is ,500.000 tons of copper sulphide, wlth-iy, wlth-iy, ut reference to a half-dozen drill holes ,X hat have passed through from forty to I ixty feet of sulphide ore and that, iJm hen developed, cannot but add lm-l. lm-l. neasurably to the great volume of 'ih 'ealth. The ore bodies measure from I r( fty to 250 feet in width, said Manager jt nyder, and the proposition throughly through-ly ut Is a whale. He leaves for the Hon-ihf Hon-ihf rlne and Buckhorn mines at Stockton his morning to inquire Into conditions ' 1 1 nerc, and next week returns to the f ' ir west to resume his labor?. |