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Show GIROUX PLANS HAVE . ' HAD TO BE CHANGED An official of the Glroux Consolidated company Is nuutcd as fo jows. "Just when w reached maximum pio-ductlou pio-ductlou of concentrating ore iMe-contract iMe-contract with the stuptfto Valley Mnelt luy Sz Mining company on October .. the Western Federation of Miners railed ti strike In the lily mining camp In sympathy sympa-thy with that .-ailed at Bingham by the same organization, and while our cum-panv cum-panv was not directly .oncornfd. yet we suffered with the riteptoc company oil ac-eounL ac-eounL of being In the name district, our men going ot with tholrs. There ban bA.Mi no real damage lo the property, but resumption of operation In Hill will be delayed because many of the innn not In sympathy wlth the strike stopped work and left the district. "Wo were ready to begin work In the Alpha territory wh-n wo reach.-d t he maximum dully production, but It wll b-necessary b-necessary now to direct our full attention lo mining concentrating ore until wo can get the force up to nornuil bnsls. "In regard to the Alpha ore body, a glance at tho last nnnunl report will show conclusively that the company has In this ore body a treasure of enormous extent, but the development work hns been done so that It Is Impossible to give un estimate of tonnage. , , , , Al "In drifting on the 1200-foot level the mineralised zone was found to be more than 400 feet wide, and the same ore and general conditions were found on Iho 1000-fooL 1000-fooL level. The ore disclosed by drifting and rotlmbcrlng on the 1000-foot level showed larger on the floor than at the top of the drifts, from which it appears that tills levol is nearly at the top of the ore bialles. At the same time the chances are favorable for an upward extension of some of tho ore to at least the 770-foot level." |