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Show I TAPS BIG WEALTH ON UMER LEVEL Another Portiine Added to the Olit-texlng1 Olit-texlng1 Hcaourcos of tho Centennial Cen-tennial Eureka. l T a dipth of IW fst In the Cento Cen-to tennl.al-JSttrekx rain at Tin tic the management i 3rin ploughing It mr Into the main channel of neaith on ths wsst. the level having penetrated Jt for tacnt-alx feet, the ore ah An Average ronnlns; well up In cop-rfr cop-rfr and gold with normal values Ln sll-er. sll-er. For nearly two weeks, according; to last night's arrivals from camp, the management has been In the main hannel that previously encountered und exploited by the uninitiated a the main ore havlnx been nothing: more than an artery radiating from It. although al-though the latter developed a width of twelve feet and for several sets was productive of a most profitable tonnajje t copper ore. It was ln raising upon this stalwart lens In the limestone that the quartz made its appearance. Thore-upon Thore-upon the main level was extended and advanced through five feet of stubborn rock it opened into the regular channel chan-nel 200 feet vertically below the point nt which It was penetrated on the 1100. Flnce then the H00 has been forging ahead In ore of fine quality, while the channel between level and the 700 above has been practically untouched and opens up to the company a measure of wealth the value of which It would bo dlfllcult to compute. While no cross-cutting cross-cutting has yet been undertaken on tho 1400-foot level, there Ih nothing, according ac-cording to the advices from camp, to Indicate any less strength there than hns characterized the channel over 200 feet along the dip above. In proving up the ore body at this depth tho management man-agement will observe the usual courso nnd In raising, crosscuttlng and wlnz-Ing wlnz-Ing another moBt Instructive lesson on the magnitude of Tintlc's ore bodies may be rolled on. Meanwhile 300 tons of ore from the Ontennlal-Eurcka Is arriving dally at the United States smelter and yet there 1 no evidence of exertion at any point. |