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Show KEWM5 DRIFTING 01 S1EC0 W To Follow Contour in Hope of Finding Commercial Deposits of Ore. Drifts have just been started along the s'nale contact from the winze that was lately completed to this point by the Reorganized Re-organized Kewanaf Mining company. Following Fol-lowing the completion ot the amp, a large working station was cut at this point, Mu feet below the surface, and a waste or ore pocket of large dimensions was prepared to facilitate the handling of mat ml broken in development, says the Goldlield Daily Tribune. An electric hoist rait-es tiie material to the station at the end of tho cast crosscut driven Into Kewanas ground from the main shaft of tho Lagnna. on the ToO-foot level, the wtnz having been sunk from this station H'J feet to tue contact. All prepa rations have now been completed com-pleted for the exploration of the shale con tiie t over a wide area and the drifts Just starting will continue to follow the contour of ihe shale, in the hope that deposits of commercial ore will be found here. The fact that the winze, upon reaching the shale, exposed about four feet of quartz that was shown by ass-ays to contain some gold, is accepted as evl-Jence evl-Jence that tome part, possibly the edge of a vein, has been penetrated, lying along the contact, forming a condition similar to ihat found in the Jumbo Extension Ex-tension mine, adjoining to the south. There. Is cs yet no means of determining determin-ing whether this is any vein that has been found or explored nearer the surface, sur-face, but conditions generally lndlnate that tho extension of the greit Red Tup-Laguna Tup-Laguna vein will be found extending along the aha!e in tias territory, as the vein dips In this direction and has been developed to a considerable extent ot depth in the Iiguna property. The vein Is of vrjst dimensions nearer the urfa e .1 nd has prod m-ed high-grade ore to The val'ie of in. any millions in t he Rd Top and I.aguna m!ns. The fact that the . ftiale lias betn found at about the Fame j d.-pth ,,cre a a in the Jumbo Ete!i.-irn : mine that geological conditions in the two pron.-rtir-s are almost identical has led to ih'1 be'lef t!at important ore bodies bod-ies will I e found hero in exploring : he shale contact. Conditions are now favorable favor-able for making rapid proyreb In this ' work. |