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Show NEW ORE BODY I PAYS FOR MINE Latest Disclosure in tho Contonnial '1'' Eureka Proving1 Moro Extraordi- ! ! ' nary Each Hour. H TE ncv disclosure In the west i channel of the Ccntennlal-Eurcka I J mines nt Tlntlc, Into which the !' management recently punched a hole through llift 1-100-foot level, Is "worth more than the cost of the mine !- to the present company," said one of ;' the most experienced of the miners who J came In from camp to participate In the ! day's events. Reference to the record reveals that the coat of It to the company which is now drawing upon Its resources for a fortune each month waB no less than $2,100,000, and on this basis the new ore body, although but few weeks old, has acquired that valuation. It Is said that Superintendent Brown has driven Into It along the strike for forty-six feet I without anything whatever to indicate its extent, while the crosscut continues to advance with only one wall yet exposed. ex-posed. Superintendent Brown, who was In town during the day to confer with tho management, declined to discuss the extraordinary development, declln-I declln-I Ing to say more than that the level was yet running In ore. By the visiting miners It Is known that tho same body I exists 100 feet above while there Is no doubt In their minds that It goes on j down for at least another 100 feet "While the achievement Is n remarkable one It Is no greater, perhaps, than sev- I oral that have antedated It. |