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Show I NEW ORES FOlF I IN 11 II Pittsburg-Idaho Company Is Working Now Upon the H, Sixth Level. H TUNNEL BENEFITS FELT ; Nine Feet of New Silver Ore H' on Sixth Level Promises u Large Returns. A. S. Rosf, president of the Plltsburg-Idaho Plltsburg-Idaho company of Idaho, is back from the mine, and reports for shareholders that underground conditions nre in a very satisfactory shape. The management lias , been delayed In the installation of the ( tramway, but this should be completed. he 3tates, by June IS, from which time will be eliminated all hoisting above the -100-foot level, also the wagon haul from the mlno to the railroad tracks, thereby bringing the costs of production down to ( a material degree. ' Some decidedly interesting development work Is being done in this dividend pay- , er, now that the long tunnel is completed to and beyond shaft connections, and re- suits already arc beginning to reward the efforts of the company. Last fall the management encountered water on the 600-foot level, and not being In a condi-tlon condi-tlon to handle it as economically aa would be the case with the tunnel, then in process, completed to the shaft con-nections, con-nections, work was temporarily aban- . doned on the 600, and the management , j began paying attention to the 500. New Ores Opened. A crosscut was driven east on the 500 ' until a large vein of good ore was opened, and when work wns resumed on the bOO-foot bOO-foot level three weeks ago the manage-, manage-, ment felt sure of catching the same ore at the new depth, but attention first was paid to crosscutting to the west again-At again-At the 05-foot point west, a stringer or good ore was cut, and at the 110-foot point a much bettor ore body was broken into, and the crosscut has ponetratcd the ore now for nine feet. While at the mine hist Sunday, Mr. Ross took a sample of this new ore. and I it assavs 25 ounces silver, being higher , than was expected. He has ordered a i car lot shipped to the Salt Lake market , Immediately In order to give the ore body a more thorough test. Drifting Is being done both to the north and south, and from this work will result the car shlp-ment shlp-ment , ,, ... Mennwhlle, on the same level, the 600. crosscutting to the east has been under wav to encounter the ore known to exist I on "the 500 as above stated, and after proceeding for about thirty-five feet some first rate oro was found, but time has not been granted for its proper dovelop-merit dovelop-merit at this moment. It looks, however. to be worth exploring, but as from sev- , cntv-five to eighty foet additional cross- cutting should bring the objective point to view, the crosscut is being continued. Big Porphyry Belt. Drifting to the west on the 600 is be-ing be-ing continued also, for sixty feet ahead of the present face is the gigantic por-ph-ry belt that cuts through the property anil the count rv as well, and the series of new veins which the tunnel in Us progress west of the shaft already has demonstrated on the -100-foot level. The . development of this great porpnyry belt at depth is looked upon as of prime Im-portance Im-portance by the company's engineers, as it unquestionably has had a very proml-nent proml-nent part to play In the extensive mln-irallzatlon mln-irallzatlon of the Pittsburg-Idaho and neighboring properties. It will be plain, thefefore, that the Pittsburg-Idaho company Is In for a Tilghty interesting summer's development work, and stockholders will be gratified to receive the assurance that ore shlp-mcnts shlp-mcnts will continue as'of old during the I development campaign, thereby allowing dividends despite the large amount of new work that Is under way. |
