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Show GALENA 01 STRUCK ON ALPINE EMPIRE 1 j Eight-foot Ledge Encountered Encoun-tered Carrying Values in Silver and Lead. Ad eight-foot ledge of quartz, showing show-ing values in lead and silver has been encountered on tho Copper King No. 1 claim of the Alpine Km pi re Mining company's pro perry, located in the Al-, pine and Silver Lake mining districts, according to Theodore Nichols, vice I president and general manager, and Jo-soph Jo-soph L. JJ unk ley, secretary and treasurer, treas-urer, who are in Salt Lake on mining business. Samples of tho ore have been sent to the assayer. The strike was made at a point about 200 feet from the portal ot the main tunnel. The tunnel is driven on the contact between the limestone hanging, wall and the granite footwaii, and wheu in a distance of about -00 feet an eight-foot eight-foot ledge of quartz was encountered, the quartz showing galena scattered through it. A drift was started along the quartz ledge to the east, which is now in a distance of about twelve feet, with the ore showing improvement. The , ore is apparently making in the lime- . stone beds. i At a point about 150 feet from the! portal a vein of high-grade copper.-ore1 was also encountered. An incline winze i was sunk a distance of forty feet below the tunnel level, which at that depth broke into a cave which is apparently lined with copper ore. The cave is in tho limestone and shows a width, of between be-tween six and eight feet and is thirty1 feet in length. It has been impossible.' to determine its height as yet. The company owns eighteen claims. 1 One shift is employed. The company is capitalized for 500,000 shares. A. E.Gibson E.-Gibson is president, Theodore Nicholas vice president, J. Jj. Duukley, one of the three promoters of the Pacific mine in American Fork canyon, is secretary and treasurer, who, with W. H. Lee and C. H. Cody, form the directorate. |