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Show ALTA CONSOLIDATED LOIDIiJO SHIP From the ore body encountered recently re-cently iu the A It a Consolidated property, prop-erty, located in the Little Cottonwood district, there has been taken out one carload of silver-lead ore and another carload is being broken, acnrding to A. O. -Tacobson. Tn dis'ii. iog the future fu-ture of the company yp-rfrda v Mr. Jacob-son said that it was gratifying to the directorate to announcr- io the stock-holders stock-holders that the company was entirely out of debt, wirh the property paid for and money in The treasury". The physical condition r.f the property i-beter i-beter than it has been for months. The tonnage broken will be sent to the local smelters a soon ai the roadways road-ways are in condition to ship. The management had expected to have flu-ore flu-ore starter to the market before this, and had the roadways broken prior to the recent snow-torm, which haa again blocked the roar?. The principal work being done at present pres-ent is wheri the strike was recentlv made in the south crosscut off the brain fissure, and where the copper ore bodv was struck, about "t'0 f t.t-i tu the wet of the lead-silver strike. Work is being pushed ahead in both places. A raise is being driven on tite copper ore hodv whi'h l.-i going up "strong. Tho lead-silver lead-silver ore is also holding out nieelv, and the management id of the opinion that the preet rlcvel'ipnient work will bad to furtirjir the downward extension of the old Matilda ore jdioot. 1 At The Colombo Kxtension property the miners are driving a raise on what is known as the zinc fissure. This will be pushed up to the quart zi to H'ne. ftone contact, which it is expected will 1 he reacherl within the next twentv da vs. The raie being driven to cut the downward down-ward extension of the old Tofe,r ore shoot is now up J 2d f ei-t. |