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Show fMCOiTlTEQ ! is mm good Production From New Ore; Body Officially Stated to Be Beyond Facilities. According to statements made yesterday yester-day over the telephone by A rthur JP. Tlwmeon of the Kmma Consolidated, who is on the ground at Alta, the production from the new Kmma ore body during the wek has been greater than the facilities for transportation of the ore to the amel-tor. amel-tor. Mr. Thomson said that the organization at the mine had been brought to a hlgii etate of efficiency and predicted that the new bnnanxa could, with adequate transportation, trans-portation, maintain an output of 1000 tons per day. Hundred of tons of rock have been excavated In driving this drift forward and by careful sorting of the rook after It was broken by the dynamite blasts the rich sliver ore has been saved and ltnpt separate for shipment. At the beginning be-ginning of the development In the ore body high-grade silver ore was found In massive streaks and high hopes were entertained for a rich silver deposit. These hopes have been more than fulfilled, ful-filled, for the abundance and richness of the silver sulphides have Increased as the drift has progressed. In the past fortnight It has bfien found necessary to fihovef the high-grade silver sulphides directly di-rectly Into sacks and ship it to the smelter smel-ter In that condition. Most commonly, hifrh-grade silver ores, particularly In lead-silver deposits of the same type as the Emma deposit, are found associated with large manses of the lead sulphide galena. The Emma bonanza Is unusual in this respect, for as a rule little lead fa firesent. Oftentimes only 9 or 7 per cent ead to the ton accompanies an ore containing con-taining hundreds of ounces of sliver. As a result th ore hs a friable, brittle, dark, metallic mass, sometimes found lying as a soft, mushy, thick 'mud In cavems in the rocks, and again as hard seams and velnlets running In all directions and dime di-me rfsion through the parent limestone or associated quarts. The physical condition, con-dition, of the mine can therefore be observed ob-served as' excellent for a property Just entering an era of active operation and production. Revere winter weather has retarded transportation to Salt Lake and thus held Up production and the marketing market-ing of the ores. I |