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Show DEVELOPING ORE ON THE 800IH HECLA Company Now Shipping More Than Carload Per Day to Smelter The ore body encountered recently on the Wedge fisure In the Bouth Hecla p operty located in the Little Cotton ood distnet, has been stead ly opened up dux ng the past week and continues to show the same results as heretofore The ore body maintains ita size and width Regular Bh pments of from ono to two cars per day are being made and give net smelter returns of about $3o the ton. Above the 2o0foot level the length ot the ore Bhoot iaa now been proved 0 be about e ghty f ve feet. The ver a he cht of the workings s also abo t e ghtv e feet But there s st a considerable distance from the top of the ra e to where the ore has been opened up on the 100-foot level. On tne tunnel level which is about feet ert callv below the 'uO-foot 1 e the drift s now ad anced to a 1 stance of a out forty feet in the fis ure and t is expected another s xty fee will ha e to be dr en before the soluble lime bed s encountered which on a ns the ore on the level above The manage nent is f rmly conf dent that the h gh grade ore will extend to he tunnel leel and as soon as the work proves this the value of the mine w 11 be pract cally doubled On the Kate Hayes f ssure a ra se is being steadily advanced by the lessees on tne shoot of rich ore which was encountered and is now up about loO feet measured on the inci ne above the tnnnel level The ent re extent of the ore has not been proved but there s nndoubtedl a good deposit of mer chantable ore exposed in th s working It s stated it will average lo per cent lead and 20 ounces silTer Ore bins have now been completed and com mencing today the le sees expect to make regular shipments of two cars of ore per day from th s oro body Mining Notes Lead was quoted at J4 50 per hundred rounds by tl e American Sme t fig & Re f ningr companj n New To k yester day The Utah Ore Samp n company re ported the fo onlnp ore shipments re leased yesterday Ft e cars from Co o ado two cars from Nevada and four cars from Colorado Manager Frank Bergner of he Utah Ore Sampling mil at 1 ver City sajs t a necessary to wo k h s force o er Ime in order to hand e he heavy ton nage being sen out from t e Tlntlc d s rlct Beginning ast Mondaj the Card ft M n ng company comme ced shJpp ng 200 ons of o e pe dav from the m ne In t e Big ro tonwood dlstr ct |