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Show I YANKEE CON. STIES HIGH-GRADE SHOOT I Shaft From Surface Passes Through Forty Feet of Lead-silver Ore. The new strike of lead-silver ore that i wan made recently on what was pranl-I pranl-I tally the fliirface of the Yankee Ooneoll-U Ooneoll-U dated property, looated In the Tlntlc dl-j dl-j trlut, kIvch every Indication of developing ; Into one of the Important ore channels of j. that part of the Tin tic district, according i to conservative mining men that have re-ij re-ij cently visited the properly. Those conversant con-versant with the ore deposition in the neighboring properties are of tbt opinion j that the strike on the Yankee ConaolMar -'id ground Is hut the extension of the ore channel being mined at present on the May Day properly. A heavy tonnage of high-grade, lead -Silver ore lias been shipped by th May Day company and is I being shipped from the ore channel In I question. True shaft that was started on the sur-i'l sur-i'l face of tlie Yankee ground in now down about sixty feet. A raise from the under-il under-il ground workings Is being driven to meet I I iho shaft in order that the ore may be handled In a more economical manner. It I is said thai the raise has about seventy ' feet to go before making the connection i with the shaft. I The shaft is said to have passed through :i about forty feet of ore. which ore shoot Is ' apparently dipping about 4& degrees to M the north. Average samples taken of Ihe ore body shows the t it runs between Ml 1 1 and 36 per rent In lead; from 50 to 10 o 1 1 ounces In nllvsr and higher, apd samples ii taken on the lower side of the ore body M ran from $3 to 930 In gold to the ton. ii Mining men of the Tlntlc district are ;i watching the new development with con-1 con-1 1 Blderahle interest and it has already given 1 ' greater Impel us to the work being done in ii, lip neighboring properties. |