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Show Important Change in Silver Shield Ores of Good Quality Unearthed in an Apparently New and Independent Independ-ent Channel, While tho management of tho Silver Shield at Bingham has not encountered tho main ore body for which it has been driving nil these months. It has at least acquired a foothold that promises to lead directly to It. Manager Joseph, who waa at tho general offices again ycatcrday morning after nn examination of tho property rcporls that In thu breast of tho workings Is now exposed over two feet of oro, a sampling of which revealed as much ua 52 ounces of silver, 35 per cent lead and $1.80 gold per ton. Tho new strlko Is not, as wa3 tho Impression Im-pression on the street. In tho main Sliver Shield llssure, but Is beyond that meridian somo distance, and Induces the management to bcllcvo that it has made connection with a now and entirely independent inde-pendent channel of wealth. Tho new oro has now boon followed up for twunly-flvo twunly-flvo feet on the strlko, and with but 0110 wall exposed. It Is tho Intention to continue con-tinue the tunnel ilfty feet further, In which distance It Is expected that the crossing of tho flssuro with tho bedded-vein bedded-vein will be reached. At that Intersection Intersec-tion the main oro. body should make, and, according to precedent. It should bo a strong and productive one. From tho United Bingham, under tho same management, somo llrst-clasa oro continues to come to the surface and to tho valley smelters, while an averago of about fifteen tons a day of sccond-claes oro is being reduced to a lino product at tho Ileaston Jigs in Bingham canyon that will continue to operato until cold weather prohibits. Of first-class oro the management manage-ment reports about 1C00 tons blocked out. whllo testifying to the presence of about GOOo tons of second-class. Tho general condition of tho United Bingham Is moro aefliirlng than at any period slnco tho de-velopmorit de-velopmorit was undortaken and nnother season's work promises to placo It among tho steady producers of that camp. |