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Show ! MANY MILLIONS ' IN SILVER KING f Wealth of the Park's Sovereign the Greatest in Its History A Sample Sam-ple of Sensational Stuff. i At no period In the chronology of the Silver King has there been such stacks of wealth upon Its shelves, said President Presi-dent David Keith after an Inventory of It yesterday, and while he could not be Induced to part .with totals, that they 1 will tower to $25,000,000 TS, perhaps, no I exaggeration, while to fathom the re- I sources of unexplored domains is a j task for another generation of miners. t Although the usual tonnage of ore, ' ' milling and first class, has been raised to the surface and $G00,000 has been distributed amonxr the shareholders during an Interval of five months In which President Keith had absented himself, there has been no apparont diminution In the ore bodies. On tho contrary the reserves have been steadily stead-ily added to the riches, maintaining an average at all points that affords one ii of the most Impressive lessons In the I curriculum of the diggings. Of the me- l tnlllfi oontontR nf I tsi nro. of thr r:irld- Iity with which It piles up into tonnages, ton-nages, Indeed, a sample of It brought down by Mr. Keith, who on March 7th last, twenty-ono years ago, mado his llrst appearance In the enduring old camp, affords an example rarely found without Its confines. The sample, broken brok-en from a breast of ore almost incredible incred-ible in Its proportions, reveals no less than CS per cent lead, over 200 ounces silver, 7 per cent copper and 510 gold !, per ton. Gravity? A mine-car, said j President Keith, showed a weight of j 2000 pounds, while a single lot broken down in opening up, earned the company com-pany a check for more than $38,000. This is but a corner in one of the cala-( cala-( combs of wealth with which the prop erty has been endowed, however, and to which Assistant Manager Dally Is constantly adding. At the Kcarus-Kelth company's mines and mill another youngster which has developed astonishing proportions pro-portions under the direction of Mr. Dally, Mr. Keith says he found, conditions condi-tions equally gratifying, the plant reducing re-ducing 100 tons of ore during two shifts and producing a concentrate that foretells a period of dividends no matter mat-ter when that period shall bo formally inaugurated. Of course, a third shift at the mill will nrecede that evenL I Of the big plant at the King President Presi-dent Keith says that since the Introduction Intro-duction of the slimes-tables Its work has been .exemplary and that this battery bat-tery will be increased In short time with the earnings from a source that was previously Incorrigible to be correspondingly cor-respondingly Increased. Pleased with his Interests at the Park throughout, President Keith will leave for Los Angeles An-geles tomorrow, where he will remain until May with his family. |