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Show TINTIC-DELAWARE SAMPLESPRDMISiNG Two Important Finds Made in Widely Separated Parts of Property. Bringing with him a little chunk of lead-silver ore taken from the newer workings near the tunnel fa.ee and tipping tip-ping the scales at 244 pounds, Manager W. D. Rawson of the Tintie-Delawarc returned yesterday from the mine. Mr. Rawson also brought with him some promising samples of carbonate ore taken from a recently discovered deposit in the drift being run toward tho foot-wall. foot-wall. He asserts that the piece of high-grade high-grade ore was the smallest of four shot down from the big ore body. During the past week important discoveries dis-coveries were made at two widely different differ-ent points in the mine. In driving to the foot wall to crosscut the formation the miners opened up a vein of carbonate ore which, when Mr. Rawson left the mine Thursday, showed a width of more than six feet. The ore body is being developed both by drifting and sinking. ,,,No assay has been made of the new discovery, but assays of the same character char-acter of ore opened up at a different place near the surface gave values of 21 per cent lead and ten ounces silver. The crosscut is being continued to the footwall, which is approximately 120 feet further on. Several small veins showing ore have been opened on the surface and it is expected that they will be cut by the drift to the footwall. The drift on the north side near the tunnel face still is in high-grade ore. It was from this drift that Mr. Rawson obtained ob-tained his 244 -pound sample. A drift also is being run along the south side of the ore body and paralleling the north drift from the tunnel face. It also has been in ore all the way. By this method of development a. vein of high-grade ore twenty feet wide is being blocked out, crosscuts being run occasionally between the drifts. The ore in the big fissure vein hac steadily increased in value for tho last 140 feet. Because of the extreme cold weather the movement of ore to the railroad has been deferred until ore bins and sorting ! rooms can be completed. It is probable i that shipments will not be started until after the first of the year. |