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Show , r:S0UTH HEGU MINERS !! BIG ORE B89I Shipment Sent Out by Albion Al-bion Lessees Returns $50 to the Ton. Dim to a Htrf'.ft rumor t h fit ihe ore I ha-1 Ihm-ii stru.-U on tho HOO-foot Wei of thu JSonth H'i-I;i property, loratt-tl in ', the Little ( '()( toil wouU dintrirt, the stock t ; howi;J ('oii-iiiT:ill(' a-1 i v it v on the ( Ifn-fil cxTlian'c this wuck. lJn:si(.(;nt ( iooruM II. Wat sun, when askeil reanl-, reanl-, in the rumor, .-ninil that tin; ore bad ' r n rut, hut aiiinil thnr tlic fare of t t f i e i-mss nil hcii) driven to flit, Ihe iloivnwanl extfiiMoii of' ) hi on; body ( as Inuliui' exceptionally tfoo-1, arid 1 , that. he expected to encounter the ore , with any round of nhoN. 1 ' On tlin LiO toot level the drift on 1 , Uit Liy ore body has advanced 210 1 j feet, t rom Ihe point where the ore was 1 lirt encountered. Six croNs-euts have been run from wall to wall, proving the : ore deposit to be from lit'teen to forty-five forty-five feet wide. ine raises have been put up from thirty-fi ve to J 15 feet a ho ve the tunnel level, nil in ore of tfuod shipping grade. Work is now progressing in raises 7, 8 and 0, which 1 nre up forty five, forty and thirty -five jVft , respect ivel v. j 1 The company is employing thirty "'miners, and shipments continue from ; the Wed'O work ings at t he rate of a forty-ton carload a day. 1 The lease on the Kate lays fissure, j in the eastern section of the property, is senrli ug en rlond to the sa in pier every other day. The ore is coming from two raises, one of which is up ; l;iO feet, ami the other 1H0 feet. '. The Albion Mining company on Fri-I Fri-I day receiv ed returns on a eo i load of ore from the lease on its Wellington i gron nd. 1 1 ran forty -six ounces silver, 1 22.7 per cent lend, 1.7 per cent copper fifind $1.70 gold, or ahout $H0 a ton. ; Two more carloads reached the sampler , I'Vidfi y, making six carloads shipped from I lie lease workings since the ore , was st ruck three vveks ago. The vein . shows betwen four and five feet of ore, all of which is shipped as broken down. Tn the company workings the detour I rift; tli at was started to get around i the caved area is out 125 feet, follow- I ing n streak of good ore varying from! six to fifteen inches in width. An assay I taken this week from this streak ran I forty-nine ounces silver, 6 per cent copper, cop-per, " per cent lead and $ I gold, or i about a ton. In the caved area a cross-cut has 1 , been driven from the cave a distance 1 of fort v-five feet to catch the hanging-Mall hanging-Mall of the contact. Th formation ) contains numerous stringers of hicrh -grade ore, and the entire mass is highly I mineralised. |