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Show FL0RENCE-G0LDF1ELD IKES MEW RECORDS Ore Reserves Increasing and Will Probably Pay Regular. Special to The Tribune. GOLDF1ELD,. Nov.. Doc. 31. The Florence Flor-ence Goldfield. with its newly-Improved and hlghly-cfflclont milling plant. Is making a new record in production and should have little difficulty In the future In maintaining regular dividend payments. pay-ments. It Is now handling bolwcon 150 and 160 tons of oro dally, and tho mill heads have rccontly approached ?30 per ton. with a high percentage of values saved In treatment. The oro reserves have, been Increasing in all parts of tho mine, and one good vein of milling ore Is opened for a distance of 500 feet at tho 350 level, affording largo stoplng areas. It Is now planned to sink the tn.'iln shaft from Its present depth of 500 feet to a depth of 10(H) feel, and there Is overy Indication that the ore bodies now opened only to the 500 level will he found, as they Have on tho Consolidated, to extend to great depth The Combination Fraction Is not producing pro-ducing and Its leased mill Is still Idle, but tho company has In Its employ a force of about thirty men who aro engaged en-gaged in development work, chleflv at or near the 500-foot level, and the main shaft Is now being sunk from the 600-foot 600-foot level to a depth of 800 feet. There Is a considerable territory on the. Fraction Frac-tion that has not been .explored, and It Is believed, that feeders from the Mohawk Mo-hawk and Jumbo veins will be found In Ihe north and east portions of the properly. |