Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-09-09 | Page 8 | Buffalo Con. will Send out Shipment

buffalo con. will SEIiD OUT SHIPMENT Ore Body Improving in Bottom of Winze; Driving Main Tunnel Ahead. The nre body if improving in the bottom bot-tom of the winze, on the Buffalo on-aoli.late'l on-aoli.late'l Mining & MilliiiK company's j.i-operty Im-ute.d on Uon hill, in the Ophir district, H-fording to reports thnt have rcii.-hoil the local ofTVml?,. The miiin tunin'l is being driven along a fis-fmre fis-fmre into promising territory. There is broken for shipment about twenty-five tons of Hilver-lend ore, and ore is being broken for shipment in the. win.e. The winze, which it- down on an incline in-cline below the tunnel level about seventy sev-enty feet ia being sunk, on the ore body, winch in Hbout. eighteen iiu-hen in width. An average sample of the ore shows it t.u run o.n4 of an ounce in gold. 20.4 per lent in lead and til.lio ounces in silver to t ho ton. An average nample taken from the ore in the uie bin returned 0.04 of an ounce, in gold, UUi per cent in lead and tiO.ii ounces in silver to the ton. The ore body in the winze occurs in a bedding thnt is being followed, and any round of shots may diwclose a much larger bodv. Thi has' been the history of tiio ore bodies in the Ophir district. They occur in bodies of varying sizes, depending upon the nature, it is understood, under-stood, of the limestone beds in which they are found. The main tunnel is in beyond the 1000 toot, point and is bring continued along a tisauro toward a fractured zone which lies to the west, and where n commercial com-mercial ore body is expected to be encountered. en-countered. The' limestone beds in the vicinity being driven for are believed to offer promising territory for the deposition dep-osition of ore. Tho crushed zone has been caused by cross-fisRiiring, and "when the objective is reached it will be at a. point where the St. Claire brothers encountered shipping ore ;'it a point about 225 feet above where the present pres-ent work is being done. The holdings of the company consist of live claims. The company is capitalized capital-ized for 1,000,000 shares, par value 10 cents, and approximately H70.000 shares have been issued. Car Meyer is president, presi-dent, (Jeorge A. Steiner is vice president, presi-dent, V. TJ. Pollock is treasurer, and these, with Oeorgo Clark and Allen T. Wan ford, the secretary of the company, form the directorate."