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Show I GREAT BEN3 TELLURIUM. Goldfield Mine Shipping- Some Very Fine Ore to Market. Tim Great Bend, near Dlumondfleld, In v. hieh many Salt I-akers have successful' success-ful' Invested their money, is now shipping ship-ping tellurium ore, according to tho Sun of Uoldflcid. Eighty tons are now on the way to the market, while stacks of sacks nf the ore surround the various points of activity on the premises a waiting a. similar simi-lar 'ate Regular shipments will now be imde. and. It Is ontlmated that the ore will go as high as $200 a ton. Dvelopmen work Is going on In several sev-eral plnces on the Great Bend, the main shift being down at present a distance of over 200 feet. As the ore la hoisted It Is carefully sorted and placed In sacks for shipment. The tellurium strike fur-th-r down the hill from the shaft is also n Tiusy place. The ledge, lying as It does In woll-dellned soft porphyry. Is all of ten feet wide. This has been stripped fur u distance nf eighty feet, nnd In most nil instances has been shoveled Into sacks without sorting. On this ledge a shaft Is down over tlftv fHt and all Indications point to the fact Ml. i thi vein will be richly In evidence for unnv hundred feet, both east nnd west. There Is much activity on the 1 firont Bend Extension, and it will soon bo knr.wn If this property la really what its name would tend to imply. |