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Show GOLDSTRIKE MM 1FTIM VEIN High-grade Streak of Gold Ore Is Encountered in the Shaft. 1 Excellent progress is being made in de- veloplng the property owned by the Gold-strike Gold-strike Bonanza company, located in the : Jo!dstrike district, forty-five miles south-cast south-cast of Moriena, in Washington county. ' According to local officials who have re-j re-j turned from a trip to that district, there is considerable mining activity through-! through-! out the district. 1 The main shaft is being sunk through the limestone on an Incline of about "6 1 decrees and has attained a depth of I eighty -four feet. It is equipped with a I whip for hoisting good for a depth of 300 I feet. At the bottom of the shaft one i foot of quartz vein material was encountered en-countered near the footwnll, striking northwest. This has heen drifted on for a distance of twenty-one feet. The breast shows a foot of quartz and gouge material. ma-terial. At a point twelve feet from the collar of the shaft a streak of high-grade gold ore was encountered, varying in, width from one inch to three Inches, and averaged aver-aged samples ran 21. US ounces in gold and R.l ounces in silver to the, ton. This streak strikes diagonally across the shaft practically due north and ils apparently dipping toward the northwest. About thirty-eight feet south of the shaft is a porphyry dike eight feet In width cutting the limestone formation and striking easterly and westerly. This dike carries gold values and is probably responsible for the ore located up to date on t lie property. Work is being steadily prosecuted on the Goldstrike Virginia property, where the operators are sinking a shaft which is now down about 350 feet. Work has also been resumed on the Hassyampal. |