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Show ALTfl CI ME HT DM FIB ORE Surface Discovery Has Been Productive of Good Profits to Date. The development of properties within an old district is productive of surprises that one can experience in a new section, and the Alta Consolidated management 13 meeting with its share In the development of Its acreage In the Alta district. A week or ten days ago. while prospecting alone the surface, within the contact which has produced millions in high-grade high-grade ores in the earlier days of the camp, the Alta Consolidated management ran across old workings and five feel of first-class shipping grade ore. There was nothing to Indicate that any real mining had been done on this ore shoot, for there were no dumps or other evidence of extensive development. The management has found, however, that the original operators did considerable work, despite the absence of dumps, nnd the absence of dumps is not to be accounted ac-counted for any more than the frequent absenco of surplus dirt is to be explained round the holes of ground squirrels, unless, un-less, as some one put it, they began to dij,- from the bottom on up. The Alta Consolidated management continues con-tinues lo probe Into these old workings, however, and the chances are considered excellent for a substantial tonnage to be opened there eventually. Up to the present pres-ent time about 100 tons of ore have been extracted, th value of which is between $3000 and $4000. while the cost 'of producing produc-ing thr nn nin hnsf hpnn nhnnt S500. The management is raising from the lowor tunnel to catch this ore on its dip also, which new work has been Inspired bv the surface disclosures. When the ore Is found It ia estimated that there will bo at least. 300 feet of sloping ground available on the dip of tho ore. |