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Show SiuUikUlLil li'idku iiitittm mi Unr Late Developments on Twc Properties Such as to Give Much Encouragement. OPENING NEW BODIES Campaign Is Being Vigorously Vigor-ously Pushed, With - Good Results, lie ports received i n Suit La ko ves-tnrday ves-tnrday from the manaoement of the Friedman tro pert icy in .Novada tell of important developments at the two Rochester propert ies, including latest bullion shipments and the steady production pro-duction of $2o0 ore at the Seven Troughs mine. According to this information, the Adams vein on t he 700-foot level of the Rochester Mines company property lias widened out to fourteen feet of exceptionally rich ore, many specimens showing native silver and free old throughout. Much importance is attached at-tached to the fact that the operators will start to crosscut into this same vein on the 900-foot level in a few days. They are drifting in the foot-wall foot-wall of tliis vein. The bullion ciean-up for this property for the last eighteen days of May amounted to $26,943. Strike Is Growing. The sensational sho-wiii of silver ore on the o!K)-foot level in from the working work-ing tunnel of the Rochester Combined I.ines company property is developing into a mammoth body, comparable to the showing in the same body in Shepherd Shep-herd tunnel io. 1, 160 feet above the -working tunnel. In the upper workings work-ings this body proved to be a succession succes-sion of lenses of good milling silver ore, having a total "width of 173 feet. Pisclosures of about two weeks ago showed that this body was gaining rapidly iu ' enrichment with depth, the ore oji the 390-foot level running from twenty-eight to ninety ounces of silver per ton. Reports from the mine yesterday yes-terday say that the working tunnel is now in -ISO feet and is still in good ore, the past two or three weeks of work having apparently been done in ore. A raise has been started on this body on the 390-foot level to connect, with the tunnel 160 feet above. Better Than $250 Ore. Yesterday's reports say that the management oi' the Seven Troughs mine, at Seven Troughs, Nev,, is taking tak-ing out ore continuously from the 700-foot 700-foot level that has been averaging better bet-ter for the past month than $250 a ton. At the same time considerable mill ore has been placed ou the dumps at this property. Additional news from tho Eochester Combined Mines company 'is to the effect ef-fect that a new drift ami raise from the Shepherd tunnel are in good ore; that machine drills have been started in the Bacchus tunnel; that the cross-out cross-out in Link No. 1 tunnel and the drift in. Link No. 3 tunnel are in rich ore; that the Mavnaugh tunnel is in :SS0 feet and has been in good ore several davs; that the crater has been turned in the main pipe line and is flowing at the rate of sixtv gallons per minute, and that grading for the Eochester Combined Mines mill v.'ill be completed by July 10, and that more .than half of the lumber for the mill is ou the ground or in transit. |