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Show ELY-GIBRALTAR NOW BLOCKING OUT ORE Since the Salt Lake people have "been in control of the Ely-Gibraltar Mining company property, located two and a half miles nortn of McGill, they have shipoed approximately ?500 worth of lead ores. It was hitfh grade, the last carload carrying carry-ing 79 per cent lead, 3 ounces silver and 40 cents In grold to the ton, says the Kly Expositor. Recently lessees have been operating on the property and the expectation ex-pectation is that if they do not erect a mill next summer to .treat a large tonnage of second-class ore in sight that the company may earn' out this proposition, according to General Manager C. E Street of Salt Lake. A t present a small force ie driving ahead the inn in tunnel. This is in a distance dis-tance of 550 feet. The face is about 400 feet underground. By carrying this channel chan-nel ahead, an ultimate depth of 1000 feet may be secured. The formation is sil i-cious i-cious limestone. It (s tniin'h anil hmUn badly. Accordingly, progress is slow. Already the Ely-Gibraltar has exposed three good veins of milling grade. The third was opened last fall. In one place the ore is sixteen feet thick, and Mr. Street says the disclosures Justify Uie erection of a mill. One of the veins' is below the main tunnel and the expectation expecta-tion is lo inlc m it Tn -i Tii.vr,".-.-,,- -n places on the porphyry bunches of high-grade, high-grade, copper have been found, some assaying as-saying up to 30 to 40 per cent. There are hugs bluffs of silica which assay 96 to 9S per cent pure. About two years ago a great fifteen-ton fifteen-ton boulder of the lead ore uas discovered. discov-ered. It was broken up and shipped, averaging 74.4 per cent lead. The men back of the Ely-Gibraltar company nre C. E. Street, Tj. O. Willey Jr.. Thomas W. Jones and William P Davis of Salt Lake and D. C. McDonald of Ely. |