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Show ALTA CONSOLIDATED SHOWS IMPROVEMENT Better Values in Copper Being Encountered on the Bedded Vein. Under the new plan of development, the Alta Consolidated, located In the I-lttle Cottonwood district, is showing most satisfactory sat-isfactory improvement. All five faces have showings of ore. The drift on the hedded lode yesterday afternoon was in about seventy-five feet from the main tunnel. General samples of the ore extracted ex-tracted during the past two days show, respectively, 2.16 per cent copper and 2.3 1 copper. The whole of the drift continues In ore. The magnitude of this ore body will not be determined until crosscuts are put out. The face of the drift Is now in proximity to the fault fissure, fis-sure, which should be met within the next fifteen or twenty feet, according to the mine plans. The winze In the west drift on the Brain fissure has been unwatered to a depth of twenty-eight feet. A new pump has been ordered and was delivered to the mine yesterday. Ore extraction should soon be commenced from this working. In the No. 2 east drift the streak of ore recently encountered continues in the face. It assays from $20 to $2a gross value, . The crosscut north oft the No. 2 east drift is beginning to enter the mineralized area. The six-inch streak cut on Sunrtso assays 13 ounces silver, 6 per cent lead and 2.86 per cent copper. This is an Isolated Iso-lated streak, but Is indicative of the possibilities possi-bilities of the ground that Is being explored ex-plored by this crosscut. In the No. 1 east drift the streak of ore continues in the face and is being drifted on to the westward. |