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Show SHIPPING ORE FROM THE BULLION ILL High-grade Body Showing Improvement as Tunnel Is Driven Onward. One carload of ore has henn shipped from tlie new strike on the Bullion Hill property, located at Bullion, forty-five ft miles -west of Faust, the loading station of the 0. K. Silver Mining- company, on the Salt Lake Koutc, and another carload car-load is broken ready for shipment, according- to J. P. kelson, who has returned re-turned from the property. As the mam tunnel is driven forward" along the vein, the ore showing continues to improve. The unnel is now in a distance of about fifty feet and has attained a depth of about thirty-five feet from the surface. In the breast the ore body is between eighteen inches and two feet in width. The values are in lead, silver and copper, the ore running 68 per cent lead, 6 per cent copper and about 30 ounces in silver to the ton. Plans are under way between Mr. Nelson, A. K. Tiernan and associates, owners of the Laurel group, to install a motor truck to haul the ore. There is broken at present at the Laurel property more than fifty tons of ore that is to be shipped, and four men are working . at that property breaking ore for ship-r ship-r went. Work is also to be started by Mr. Xelson and his associates on the Gol-conda Gol-conda property, which adjoins the Bullion Bul-lion Hill property. This croup of claims has been opened by a shaft sunk to a depth of-100 feet on the vein and by about 00 feet of drifting. In a shoot about twenty feet to the west of the shaft there is high-grade lead ore exposed. ex-posed. The ore "body varies between two and three feet in width, and ship-l ship-l menta made from it returned 81 per cent in lead and four ounces in silver to the ton. Thsre is considerable mining activity throughout the district, according to Mr. Nelson. He will return to the property tomorrow. ( 1 |