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Show APEX'S LEAD STRIKE. New Channel iu Bingham Ground Is Repeated Above. While the new lead strike" fii the properties prop-erties of tho Utah-Apex company at Bingham is not as sensational ns several sev-eral In the development of that territory, said Manager Orem yesterday, It is adding add-ing quite a .unit to Its resources and Is Improving steadily with tho progress of work. On the discovery level at a depth of about 00 feet below tho surface, it has been opened up along the strike of tho channel for over twenty feet, tho ore maintaining a width of two feet for that distance, while a ralso is now being made In It. In tho level, fifty feet above, connection con-nection hns been mado with the same channel which shows equally as much ore, the whole revealing an average of 40 per cent lead, with from $3 to $12 gold, eight to ten ounces silver, and 2 per cent copper per ton, while a picked sample showed as much as 53 per cent lead, $12 gold, ten ounces silver and 2 per cent copyor, Meanwhile the usual volume of coppor. gold and silver-bearing ore Is being sent to market by Manager Orem whllo conditions con-ditions underground aro very satisfactory Work on the lower tunnel la progressing steadily with the avenue to ultimately penetrate tho zone for a distance of over 20CO feet. Tho new lead strike, as described by Manager Orem, Is In tho Minnie ledge, Minnie lfround. |