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Show EAGLE & BLUE BELL TO START SB With tho station at the 1875 foot level ia the F.aglr- & Riue Bell mine, ! locuted in the Tintic district, completed and a dtir't started out into the ore body that was cut while ninking the shaft, the management, has arranged to continue con-tinue the sinking of the main shaft to the water level. This should be reached at t lie liOtiO-i'oot point. It will pass through virgin territory and laterals will be driven to develop this ground. Conditions at the property are very good, according to General Manager liner lYtt. The sump, sunk twenty-five feet below the lS7."i-rout level, shows the ore body to be con t in nous below that level. "In the drift that has been driven from the station at the 187.")-f 187.")-f oot level tii ere is a full face of ore. This drift was out about twelve feet yesterday and is being driven to the east to explore the ore body in that direction. Average samples taken of the ore, as it is broKen for shipment show it to run from 'Ml to 4.) per cent in lead and from 12 to 15 ounces in silver to the ton. The strike is one of considerable importance im-portance ns it. shows bv the development work done to date. It will add materially mate-rially to tho tonnage being produced. The company is at present shipping at the rate of fifty tons per day from three of the workings in the mine. Considerable Consider-able development work is under way at the property and when the new ore body on the IS 7.1 foot level is developed it is expected that the tonnage will be materially mate-rially increased. Inasmuch as the ore is showing in the sump the company will employ only two shifts of miners in sinking the shaft instead of three as heretofore. The ore will he saved for shipment as the shaft is sunk. |