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Show BULLION IS STAR IN ZINC SHIPMENT One Car of Twenty-eight Tons Crude Product Nets Better Than $1000. What is declared by smelter officials to be the richest shipment of crude zinc ore ever sent to the valley from any tributary mine is the last consignment from the Bullion mine, located at Good-springs. Good-springs. Nevada, Colonel J. J. Daynes, Jr., president and general manager of the company, having just received the settlement set-tlement sheets. The car was a trifle under the desired de-sired weight of thirty tons, which would have given the mine an "edge" on the cost of handling, but as it was the twenty-eight tons showed an average value of 45.115 per cent crude zinc and netted S1O0S. Colonel Daynes said that he was officially assured that the car was the richest in crude zinc of any ever received re-ceived at the sampler. The mill at the Bullion property Is still in active and successful operation. Two cars of concentrates arrived at the sampler yesterday and. while settlement has not as vet been made, it is known that the shipment is up to the usual standard of the plant, about 60 per cent lead ilnd fifteen ounces in silver per ton. from a tunnel and have followed high-grade high-grade ore in the fissure and five-foot bed for more than 400 feet. The face of the workings toward the mountain has now more than eight feet wide of high-gTade lead ore assaying 35 per cent lead, 20 ounces silver and jr gold. What is thought to he the same Hamburg fissure and bed was recently re-cently found on the surface on the other side of the mountain, through which the Hamburg tunnel Is being pushed, over 2000 feet from the face of the tunnel. This gives us every reason to expect we will have ore tho entire distance, and If we do our profits will greatly exceed 'our expectations. ex-pectations. 1 have the greatest confidence con-fidence in this property. The mine is only four miles from the railroad and it costs but SI. 25 a ton to place It on the cars. Hamburg is a high-grade mine in a district where large profits have been marlo from its or bodies. The Mendha mine immediately im-mediately adjoins the Hamhurg and is on the same fissure. From the Mendha nearly $SOO,000 profits have been already taken. Hamburg is in a camp of big producers. pro-ducers. It is the neighhor of the Prince Consolidated, another of the Godbo properties, prop-erties, which has paid in dividends $:J75,-000 $:J75,-000 in the last sixteen months and is earning earn-ing something like $25,000 a month. Hamburg, Ham-burg, the management states, is now making mak-ing money and has been for some time. A surplus is being accumulated in the treasury which will be used for the payment pay-ment of the first dividend, which will probably be some time prior to the first of March. |