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Show LEONORA PROPERTY HIS GOOD REPORT Professor J. H. Weber, geologist and j 1 mining engineer, who returned Saturday j : night from an examination of the Leo- I ; nora mine of the Star district, Beaver 1 ! county, 'has submitted a report to John i Matson, president of the Leonora com-, com-, pany. President Matsen authorizes the ! issue of the official report, which in part I follows; ! j The formation Is identical telth the J j great Tintic district and especially j i that part where so many mines have l been found which, have produced over : $100,000,000. . ! The carboniferous limestone, with I its beds of dolomitlc lime, and the chert beds inters tratified with jas-peroid, jas-peroid, which Is intimately associated asso-ciated with the ore, as like the shell of an egg surrounds the meat, so ! is" the sillcification of the lime, as na- ' ture has power to change 75 per cent of lime and make 85 to 95 per cent silica, have been prepared by nature na-ture as her golden egg. Many thousand thou-sand feet of stiafts, pits, open cuts, drifts and crosscuts were run in search of an ore shoot. Six hundred and thirty-five feet In a northerly direction from the shaft a , drift was run to catch a sheeted zone running east and west and on this zone here and there values ,were found. A cross -fissure running north and south was intercepted 258 feet in. After much discussion and advice, a i drift was run north 440 feet to a monzonlte dike, and here drifts were 1 run on each side of the dike, but no values were found. Then a drift was run sixty-five feet south and the best values ever found on this level were encountered. So, after due deliberation, de-liberation, etc., it was thought best to drive on this sheeted zone eastward east-ward and get under a big, rich ore body that had been taken out in early days. The outer shell of the ore body had been pierced and now an ore body, in the form of a bedded deposit, de-posit, is in the drift. This bed is nearly four feet thick, in hard silici-fied silici-fied lime, and the ore assays. In gold, silver, copper and lead, from $40 to $100- per ton. Fifty feet from the shaft, in a northerly direction, the drift has passed through a great leached zone, about 300 feet long and twenty to thirty feet wide, and the ore makes by replacement on the beds. By sinking sink-ing an Inclined winze less than 100 feet long it should make a big body of ore, as it has all the earmarks of an ore body. The formation is the same as that which surrounds the ore body 700 feet east. With this showing and a few hundred feet of development work the Leonora mine will become a shipper and should be a dividend payer. i I |