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Show I I: TWO STRIKES ON AT NEWJTOCKTON Third Shoot of a Contact Encountered En-countered in Deep Workings Work-ings of Mine. 8upt t. w. galigher reports tin; finds Work of Driving Drain Tunnel on Honerine Heing Vigorously Vig-orously Pushed. Two strikes have, been mad recently 1 ii the. deep working of (ho N'ew Stork-ton Stork-ton property at Stockton, l'tah. according accord-ing to T. W. Gnll(rher, superintendent of the ronipnuy, who arrived In Salt Lake City Friday He reports that the mine la In first-class condition and that Its outlook was never more favorable than at I urtscnt. Another Shoot Found. In the eights hundred and fifty west lev, the miners have picked up another rich fihoot of ihe contact on which thcy iao been working 'or some time, making the third that they hav encoutitered. Th find whs made after the miners hnd 1,i.xv' il through the 8 cond shoot, twelve feet in width, with a lenKth of Hghly-six f-et. This ore is very similar to that which the miners have been extracting! for some time, and It is estimated that It will run Tii per cent In lead. 2n ounces in llvet and 1 I"-r cMil in cupper, with gold values of about $0. Unknown Lime Encountered. In the weM side of the north eight hundred and fifty feet-foot level an unknown un-known lime was encountered, it was tntered from the footwall. and although the miners have gotten through six feet of the formation, the hanging wall has not thus far been struck It Is estimated thai this ore will carry ahum the earn value as the ore of the new shoot located lo-cated Nc Hoist Being Installed. The company Is putting up a new hoisting hoist-ing plant, having a capacity of ninety horse-power. The cuRf will be ti double-dirkrd double-dirkrd :iffair. and will he capable of sinking fifteen hundred feet it is ox- pected that the new hoist will bo com-p!.-t-u anil in operation within thirty davr.. Honerine Looking Good. The Honerine property at Stni kion, ae-cording ae-cording to Mi C.nltgher, Is Also looking up Rood Tho work of driving the drain tunnel, whl h will connect the old wnrk-ings wnrk-ings with the mill, la being vigorously pushed. This work. It Is estimated, will re lire .".bout sixty days more to com-plete com-plete i' Upon Its completion, the mill or th i nmp.iiiy, which Is practically new, having been operated only about h year, will be put Into commission The ra paclty Of the mill Is four hundred tons a duv. |