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Show HIDDEN CREEK MINE OF GRANBY COMPANY VTe understand that the exploratory work now belnf? carried on at the new Hidden Creek property of the Granby Consolidated company is meotlnir with very favorable results. The oro thus far encountered In the further proving up of the known ore bodits and in the prospecting pros-pecting for the extennlon of Fame would indlcato that the property Is turning out larger than won iormorly expected, wo are in receipt of advices from our western correspondent to tho effect that In the lower tunnel which has been driven driv-en into the mountain, over 100 feet of oro has been opened and this Is of a. grado fully one-third higher than the average of tho tunnel a.bove. In the diamond drilling work vhlch U a or? in progress some very promising holeii havts been obtained. ob-tained. Some of the drills havo disclosed as high as 100 foot of ore averaging over I per cent copper for tho entire distance. in addition to the prospecting work now being done at the mlnt, the known ore bodies which aro more or less developed, devel-oped, are being further blocked out and opened up preparatory to actual mlniu. This work has proceeded so well that it Is estimated in three months' tlmo the mine could easily he In a position to ship 2000 tons of ore per day. Good progress is being mado on the construction of the new smeller. Thompson, Towlc & Co. |