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Show NATIONAL CAMP IS VERY BUSY SECTION The National Mines company has Btruck a larger body of high-grade ore than ever in tho lower levels. Nos. 5 and 6, says the National Miner. This Is very encouraging to the owners of the property, prop-erty, for this proves that the vein Is increasing in value with depth. The company is drifting to the south on the rich vein and at the same time sinking the large work shaft to a lowol level from which it will again cut the rich vein and open the same up. Jesse L. Workman, the founder of National, and the firm standby of the camp, is at tho county seat attending to business. Mr. Workman before his departure expressed himself as confident of the outcome of the development work now In progress on the three leases on property owned by himself and associates. asso-ciates. The leasers Just before he left cut the vein on the Radiator Hill claim. The crosscut tunnel taps the vein at considerable consid-erable depth. Where cut, the vein shows a line streak of ore. The values are' mainly silver. The gold contents are very small. The ton value. a3 broken rates better than $50. The Baldwin-Hlnes lease on the White Rocks Is steadily progressing to the south. The values attained when the high-grade pebbles in tho drag were encountered are maintaining their Importance. The face of their drift Is in panning values. Dan McCloud on Auto II ill Is encountering encoun-tering in his surface exploration work high-gradn boulders and cherts characteristic charac-teristic of the first high-grado silver-gold silver-gold float found on Auto Hill and which led to the development of the National district and the opening of the National mine. D. McCloud, who a short time ago secured a lease and option on Auto Hill, has already uncovered the famous Auto Hill vein, from which high-grade ore was taken where the same vein was opened tip on the saddle above. Mr. McCloud Mc-Cloud has obtained some fine pannlngs. The Charleston National Mining company com-pany has about completed the task of Installing the large hoisting plant. The Charleston Hill Development & Mining company has cut out a station In the lower workings and started to drift to the south from the same on the vein In which It has some very valuable pieces of properties opened and from which it has taken some very fine pannlngs. pan-nlngs. This piece of property Is located between two very valuable pieces of property, namely, the National Mines to the north and the Buckskin National Na-tional Mining company to the south. Goldflold Tribune. |