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Show TH HEGLA CD. ifSBISTOBE (,lfpment Proving Re-' Re-' "t strike Larger Than Anticipated. v ,,i,iO tons of or hnv si leu from l 'if '" V 1r01H-riv. k.ont.M in -"yn'wood otMru-t, mi ouch " "'rt on tho recent strike i ' sheet to b. larger than ;:1;,';';-.,u-,-s i uvr. $.p ... ,;' edit "1 l-sul B"d " Ptfr il-r to tho ton. : ;:L,io ore bo.lv occurs hi . '- " on tho ioot level '" Tho ive.ko Ussuro hss '".'. for 'into past. Hi oro bOklv ' kiw,,r : TV discovery occurs ut T:;, irrularlv shsd pm, ' '.i,rj the intersection ot the Sni be.l of brecciated :': 'Z Westerly direction ;? working nd m plc " . .Vrt than a knit blnoo. The " ,L ami on the west side, ot ': .h -ado ore was met wuJi e of tolt fift? fe' frm hV foot level, above,, the ": " v,)v hi been opened up , width of si x feet ... the rre te ore js now ei-the ei-the lt'0-foot and the -oi widens out in places to 'V.V-'v feet. The management ;; '.,';t the average width of ji'-ht feet and it has so far :.;,JTor a height of 300 feet and ,.'..b of ?t:v l00t- Th" or.e; "...yd to the smelters, will in tlie neighborhood oi Vj'xiin tunnel level, about 300 s iv below the i.iO-foot level, is'hfiog driven with a view IZr&t a'continnation or this This workinc is about i ,,-t of its mark. The inter-"Ai-rt should be traversed ."C nest three months. Cyjh Hecla company is for-".---3 to meet its ore body just ;"..";'.- mine did a few mouths ii'.i be a very large increase "rs je et t::e property within a On the other land, it is '.r ie that the crosscut will not TtitPMter the ore body aud .--e drifting may be necessary. are very 'much in favor , ve!or3!ent Vork turning out V-isetoriv. The ore shoot nas - hz rrcved on its dip for more ''':' and. as other ore bodies Ti'inr.v have shown persistence - j siiiiar result may bo looked -- the wedee ore body. ,L the dimensions just given. ,::iiu2tioD of this ore body to ieve! will mean an adH- .1 tons of ore, which would iid asotier S4.0.0'JO to :?o00.-; :?o00.-; the va'.'e of the property. In - to this rich ore bodv the eom- vivi.l a Inw-rrae bodv of Irs whirls shipments were regu-ustiuJ regu-ustiuJ in the past. :. .nrftade ore averages about $12 I tit at the smelters. Accord-: Accord-: the management, this gives a to the companv of $6 per c:a on this ore bo3y is not De-rsertted De-rsertted at the present time, ow-. ow-. ii tew discovery, which yields -:.h tirher returns. Better 'tr-ans-t:: facilities are bein arranged li; it is likely that the shipments ::th Hecla will be considerably i-i in the near future from the or so per day which is now titt out. ' : tcrpany anticipates considerable from royalties received from to be shipped from the Kate j rjrjre. whk'h is under leaee. t if tated that the ore body has ;:jrei for a width of about forty iti it is expected to widen the trs on the Kate Hayes fissure, : r'hes the same bed of lirne-t: lirne-t: the ot.e in which the rich dis-"mtcewedp dis-"mtcewedp has been found, that :; body will be ten times as big opened up in the wedge fissure. |