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Show M'DONALD-ELY RUNS TOWARD MACEO ORE Mftchino drills are humming again at the McDonald-Ely to push forward the head of the 320 level on tho Maceo claim where the opening up of a large "body of ore is anticipated, fays the Ely Expositor. This level is now out about 1"0 feet from the shaft and is headed toward the northeast, Tt will be necessary to drift, about 350 feet from the shaft, as far as can be judged at present, to reach the Maceo ore body, but when It is struck it is expected ex-pected to be the making of the property. prop-erty. riome distance from the shaft a soft iron formation was cut by the level which later entered very hard lime and work was suspended as no machines were being used and but slow progress could be made. The company management manage-ment recently determined to concentrate concen-trate all ofr'ort on tho extension of the level so the machine drills were started un aeain. The compressor is in the old Kobust mil building about a quarter of a milo from the shn ft and water for tho boilers 'a pumped from the Ftation in the canyon up toward to-ward Lane City. Ton men are m-ploved m-ploved who are divided into two shifts and the work will be pushed steadily until the objective point is reached when it is likely new development plans will be adopted by the company. |