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Show BETTER GRADE ORE IT UM DEPTH Improvement Noted on Tenth Level, While Deeper Work . Is Progressing. Crosscutting to the Halifax vein from the 1100-foot level of tho shaft Is now making good progress with two shifts of miners, and the crosscut Is now out fifty-live fifty-live feet from the shaft, and will probably prob-ably havo to be extended about another 130 feet before encountering tho downward down-ward extension of tho vein on Its northern north-ern dip, says the Tonopuh Miner. On tho 1400-foot lovel the east drift is out 470 feet from the shaft, and Is now cutting good, wide streaks of quartz, which may possibly prove to be on tho foot wall of the north and south Contact Con-tact vein, which "was drifted on on the 1000-foot level to the east and west vein. On tho 1000-foot level the raise from the west drift, west of the main face of ore is twelvo feet wide, of which two and a half feet Is very good grado, the remainder being of good mill grade. Tho raise from the cast crosscut was extended ex-tended during the week on from ten to twelve feet of ore which is of hotter grade than any heretofore found in tho mine. This raise Is now being timbered and fitted with an ore chute. The east hanging-wall drift on the vein was extended the usual distance during tho week, the face now in mill ore, but in the past week this drift encountered encoun-tered some very excellent grado ore, and this work has proved an ore shoot about eighty-five feet long, but apparently the drift has been run near the top or apox of tho ore shoot, which gives indications of carrying better values at greater depth, for tho reason that vory much hotter hot-ter grado ore exists at the bottom of tho drift than was encountered at any time in the face. The east foot-wall drift was extended the usual distance during the week in low-grade ore. Below the 1400-foot level the work of fitting tho shaft with piping has now been completed, and the concrete foundations for the motor to operate the pump are being Installed on the 1700-foot level, and it is expected that the pump will bo In operation In the courso of a week, when crosscutting on this level will bo commenced. com-menced. , , , A newly patented ore crusher, claimed to have a great crushing capacity at a very low power cost, will bo installed at the property in a few days and thoroughly thor-oughly tested and If found suitable will be adopted by the company. |