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Show BEAVER GOLOIE STINMPRii Free Gold Showing in Bot torn of Shaft, With Val-ues Val-ues Increasing H gh grade gold ore continues in the new shaft be ng sunk by the Un ted States Smelt ng Refining & Mm ng com pany in the Newton mining distr ct at the camp of 1 ortuna, according to a let ter reee ted yesterday bj the secretary of the Beater Coldzone M ning company, the propertj of wh ch adio ns that bought recently by the smelt ng inter ests from Lumry & Moore INew men are arr v ng da ly n the Fortuna dis tnct pr ceB of foodstuffs and of water for cook ng and dr nking purposes are ns ng and the camp g ves every ind cat on of the beginning of a boom On the property of the Beaver Gold zone company the shaft s now down fifty five feet The ore is ncreasing a val e as greater depth is attained H J Harr s the foreman in charge of the work wr t ng to the effect that the pann ngs grow r cher each day At the bottom of the shaft the ore 8 show ng some free gold The ledge on wh ch the shaft is be ng sunk has an average w dth of sev enteen feet and the local officials are of the op n on fron tests made on av erage samples taken across the ledge at var ous places that the ent re ledge v 11 run $5 n gold to the ton The samples were taken near the surface Each foot of the fifty five sunk has Veen thro gh m 11 ng ore, and the com pany js conten plat ng the erect on of a imall stamp m 11 n the near future The Beaver Goldzone company is con trolled by local nterests is cap talized for 1 000 000 shares with the par val e of each share at 5 cents and there are 500 000 shares n the treasury Dr A V Ryke t s pres dent Thomas Mar loneaux s vice pres dent who with I or n Hall the secretary and treasurer form the d rectoratc |