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Show BUFFALO CON. SHIPS Tonnage Sent Out From St. Clair Lease Improves in Values. Mocking out of ore, which runs In the neighborhood of ISO ounces of silver, .1 ounces of gold and 10. S per cent In lead to the ton, is going steadily forward on the property of tiie Buffalo Consolidated Mining company, the claims of which are located on i.ion hill In tho Ophlr mining dist riot . according to rerori. received yesterday at the local offices of the company. com-pany. Two shipments sent out recently from the blo'-k of ground under lease to W. tH. Clair has been settled for. The first car contained Hvl.l ounces of silver. .21 ounce of gold and ll.lt per cent of lead to the tnn. while tho second car ran 3 -1 'J . S ounces of silver, .2'5 ounce of gold ami 10.4 per cent of lead to the ton. Since the last shipment was sent out the development shows the ore body to be increasing in size and maintaining the values. The ore shoot has been developed to tho southwest, with the ore body showing up strong, and also to the northwest. The ilrift from the bottom of the Inciinn has been advanced by upraises No. 1 und No. 'u and, ncenrding to the local management, man-agement, the mine js In better physical condition at present than it lias been at am' time during the past ear. The development work on the property Is being pushed abend as rapldlly an possible. pos-sible. It being the. plan of Mr. St. Clair to put the property in a condition where oro shipment s may be ma.inta i nod wl I h moro regularity in the future than heretofore, here-tofore, lie p'a ns to keep the development develop-ment work considerably in advance of tlui point where the breaking of the ore will be. started. The property has recently recent-ly entered the lists of the dividend payers pay-ers and has a total up to dale of ?;;0i0. |