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Show COPPER-SILVER ORE CUTOmEONl Miners Strike Promising Showing Driving Along East-west Fissure. About six inches of copper-silver ore has been encountered on the Leonora Mining company's property, located in the Star district of Beaver county, according accord-ing to A. C. Nebeker, superintendent in charge of the work at the property, who arrived in Salt Lake yesterday. The strike was made in the fare of the drift being driven on Ihe east-west fissure and the ore showing is being followed to the east. Considerable work has been done on the property in the past few months for the purpose of prospecting the contact between the monzoniie and the limestone. This contact was cut in driving along the north-south fissure which Intersects it. In driving along the north-south fissure the miners also encountered its intersection with the east-west fissure and a showing of ore was developed. The ; work of driving to the contact was coo- tinned, however, and when It was reached considerable work was done along It, ' both to the east and to the west of where It is intersected by the north-j north-j south fissure. ! Recently Superintendent Nebeker started start-ed the miners to driving east along the east-west fissure, which has resulted in striking the ore showing. This has been cut at a depth of about 325 feet from the surface. One promising indication, in the opinion of Superintendent Nebeker, is the prevalence of quartz that is in- creasing in the fissure as the work of developing It is pushed forward. The ore showing has also been improving and he is of the opinion that ore in commercial com-mercial quantities will be opened when a more favorable limestone formation Is reached. He will return to the property today. |