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Show NEWS FRQMEMERALD Reports of Mineralization Increase and Disappearance Disappear-ance of Both Walls. News of a sensational character may be expected any day from the Emerald mine in the Tintlc district, in the opinion of President jr. C. Hoffman, and Secretary Secre-tary J. K. Oglesby, who returned yesterday yester-day from an inspection of the properly. , i. In the new workings on the 1000-foot j levei the face of the drift was in blue i quartz heavily mineralized when Mr. j Hoffman and Mr. Oglesby left the mine, I and their opinion as to sensational devei-1 devei-1 opnients was strengthened last night ! when a report was received from the ' property to the effect that the minerall-; minerall-; nation had increased with the last round of shots, and that both walls had dis- appeared. .Some time ago a large body of blue quartz was encountered on the 700-foot level. The quartz carried low values in minerals, but the indications were that the rich values had been leached to lower levels. The management then started lo drift on the 1000-foot level to strike the east and west break and intercept inter-cept the blue quartz which had been opened up above. The east and west break was intercepted inter-cepted and drifting eastward was begun. A few days ago a twelve-inch shoot of vein matter filled with iron manganese, spar and quartz was encountered, and Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Oglesby hurried to the mine for an inspection. They found blue quartz showing up in the top of the drift, quartz similar lo that encountered in the upper workings, except that the mineral values were not leached. The work done while they w-ere on the ground revealed more quartz in the face of the drift, and it is believed by both officials to indicate that a big ore body of unusual richness Is being approached. Some samples sam-ples were brought in yesterday and sent i to the assayer. Both Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Oglesby are i enthusiastic over the outlook, and de-! de-! dared yesterday that the prospects for making a mine out of the Emerald were never so bright. The report of still further fur-ther favorable indications was received i from the mine last night by telephone. Mr. Hoffman also announced that his opinions were supported by Frank Sned- don. one of the old-timers of the Tlntic I district, who was for fourteen years underground un-derground foreman at the Centennial Eureka, the Emerald's neighbor on the j north. Mr. Hoffman reports that Mr. Sneddon is of the opinion that the blue i quartz and the appearance of the vein matter in the fissure are extremely favor- able, to the location of good pay ore. The management of the Emerald Is of ; the opinion that the ore zones reputed to have produced better than $50,000,000 I lor the Centennial Eureka, traverse the 1 Kmeratcl ground for a distance of more than 3000 feet. The Emerald also has some other noted neighbors, including the Grand Central on the west and the Mammoth Mam-moth on the south, each of which has produced pro-duced millions. |