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Show OPEN RICH ORE IN ROCHESTER MINES The SOO-foot level of the Rochester Mines company is looking better than it ever has heretofore and the ore is getting rlrher and wider as work progresses, according ac-cording to the weekly statement of the com pa ny. A station has been cut. on the 900-foot level from which a winze will he sunk to the 1 100-foot level. Work on this winze will be started early next week. Crosscut ting on the fifty-foot level fr the west vein in block four, known as the old Hunter lease, has started. The mill has been treating on the average of 190 tons a day sine t he tramway resumed re-sumed operations. The tramway is work-ins work-ins perfectly now and enough cable is on hand to repair any ether breaks that may occur. "Some startling developments in the Rochester Combined Mines have been made during the past week." says the statement. "Tn raise No. 3 of the Working Work-ing tunnel we have opened up a good body of ore. with neither foot nor hang-in hang-in g-wa 11 1 n sight. The ore assa ys from $23.40 to JS3.54 a ton." Reno Gazette. |