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Show SHIPPING QBE FROM Mi COiOblTEO High-grade Body of Lead-silver Lead-silver Is Struck on Property. Ore shipments were started from the Alta Consolidated Mitring compauv 's propcrtv iu the Little Cottonwood dis- triet oii Mnrch 2 and will be sent out regularly from now on if the weather conditions permit, according to the management. man-agement. There has been mined on the property in the neighborhood of ISO tons of'ore, a portion of which is a high-grade high-grade lead-silver ore. This runs better Than $loi) to the ton. The high-grade ore is being mined from a drift driven to the south off the raise driven up on the Brain fissure, which was followed up from the. tunnel level. The r.ai-r is up thirty feet and the drift is out thirty feet to the south, following a bedding plane in which the ore is making. The drift is being driven to cut a cross-fissure where it intersects the bedding plane. The ore being mined is of the same character as that mined in the old Matilda ore shoot in the upper workings. The old Matilda ore body was lost when a fault was struck at a point shout .jOU feet above the present workings. The management expects to cut the downward ex torsion of this ore shoot wir'dn the next fifty feet of driving to th-1 southwest. Confidence in respect to this feat tire of the development is felt, due to the fact that in the Xo. 1 raise, some feet fuither we-t. the ; minors are rVHow-iM the same character j of ore. tvhi'-h is making in the same bed. ling plane and toward the same ps-p nmiiany is also mining a good gnuie of shill ing ore that is bring broken bro-ken in connection with the high-grade Nvi- being developed. In the neighborhood neighbor-hood or" six mine cars of shipping ore n-e being broken v.-ith cn.:h shift's -,vnA, Th-""'1 heiivj two r-hift-; employed, l-iri.-e of si-clter for a period of twehe j vears be lure the Kuropcau var was be |