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Show I WEALTH OF SHOSHONE. In Seventy-Fivo Days Mine Has Yielded $200,000 Malcolm Macdonxld of tho Montgomery-Shoshone Mines company of Bullfrog Bull-frog returned to Goldfield yesterday after an Inspection of his properties In that district and announced that a largo shipment ship-ment of second and thlid-elass ore was readv to b sent to Salt Lake City via Goldfield, says the Sun of Goldfield, Ne.v Mr Macdonald stated that tho shipment will run from $300 to RQO per ton. Tho first-class ore, being taken out. which assays as-says ns high as SiXM") and $8000 to 'lie ton, is being stored in the mine and will not be shipped for some time. Ho says the work of cross-cutting the ledge has progressed pro-gressed t illstanee t.f l' ". (V.-i ,ind that the footwall has not yet hern encountered. In the winze, in which active, work ha been carried on for some lime, the ore has yielded a net profit of $1500 to t he foot for the last sixty-live feet. During tho past seventy-five days the ore mined in tht Montgomery-Shoshone has yielded $3)0.000. and Mr. Macdonald reports that It Is Increasing In value as depth Is attained I'll. tiryt-c-lass ore being be-ing taken lri'in the Montgomery-Shoshone, which is also Increasing in value, is as well Increasing In Quantity nnd Instead In-stead of the value! falling off as the work progresses, it looks as though tho second and third-class ore will a little later on net more than H000 a ton. The wlnzo Is now at the ICo-foot level, where a station has been Cut, nnd the ore at this poln has increased in value '" per cent u r I hat found at tho fifty-foot fifty-foot level Indications point to higher values and greater quantities of the gold- bearing rock than was "Htlmated by Mr. Macdonald and his associates at the time the first development work w:ls done on the property Reports received In Goldfield yesterday were to the effect that nn Immense quartz ledgo has been encountered on the property of the Shoshone National Bank Mining company, in the Bullfrog district The ledge was uncovered at the bottom of a shaft which ha1 attained a depth of forty feet No details of the values carried by It were obluinable The rock is now In tho hands of an assnyer. |