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Show AT CONTINENTAL-ALTA. v New "Work Results in Number of Gratifying Disclosures. In a statement Issued by Henry M. Crowther, manager of the Contlnental-Alta Contlnental-Alta Mining company. Is afforded the following fol-lowing Information that will be of much interest to tho shareholders: "After driving sixteen months In lower low-er Grizzley tunnol to cut known ore bodies ahead, we have encountered an extra ex-tra vein 100 feet this sldo of our objcctlvo point This vein carries about fifteen ounces silver, 10 per cent lead, 5 per cont copper aivd 20 per cent excess of Iron, including in-cluding about $1 In gold, and Is "about eighteen Indies wide whore encountered and continually Improving. This ore is encountered at a depth of 200 feet Iwlow any point wo havo previously mined and at a depth of 1000 feet under the apex of the vein. The ore wo are driving lor. and that we expect about 100 feet In. Is much higher grade, being from $30 to $00 per ton. "We now havo fifteen out of sixty-two tram lowers erected, the upper terminal Is framed and we expect to havo half of our towers up by the middle' of next week. Our first carload of rope has been shipped from St. Louis and our first carload car-load of pipe for mill power lino hns arrived. ar-rived. This pipe lino will be fourtcon .Inches In diameter and 4000 feet long." |