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Show llTll-BIIOffl ODE BODIES IMPROVE More Than 250 Tons Broken Bro-ken and Being Stored for Higher Market. The 6re bodies opened recently In the Ions tunnel of the Montana Bingham Consolidated Mining company's property continue to improve as the driftinf progresses, according to reports received at the local offices yesterday. More than 250 tons of ore have been broken, and the ore is being stored until tho market for the metal readies a higher point than the present one. Plans are being forrau- : lated by tho company to continue the driving of the tunnel some 700 feet far t h er, and it is ex po c t ed t ha t this work will he started in the near future. Lessees Parr and Furl in encountered the ore !n drilling on a fissure which had bf:en cut by the crosscut tunnel at a point about -100 feet from the present breast. This fissure runs practically northeast and southwest. The eoutti-wue-t drift his been opened up for a distance dis-tance of eighty feet, the breast of which is in solid ore that seems to he following the hant-'iiie wall. U is between three and one-half U-i and four feet in width nr.d is oJ" shipping grade. Taking into i-onpid-ration the dip of the vein, the present breast has a depth of about 2000 feet. The northeast drift has been driven In a distance of thirty feet and has about i.hree feet of ore of a much higher i-'rade. The same lessees are operating jn the Bingham New Haven property iind shipping considerable ore which is returning them a net profit of about $1500 per month. They say that they are in no hurry to ehip the ore at the present market prices for the metals. Tho objective point of the main tunnel tun-nel is the Conger vein, at which point the company expects to encounter considerable con-siderable ore. This will be reached in about 700 feet of further crosscutting. and when the work Is resumed it will be rushed to completion as rapidly a 3 possible. |