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Show LEONORA ENCOUNTERS LEAD-SILVER STREAKS That the stockholders of the Leonora property all but received a mine for a Christmas present is the opinion expressed ex-pressed by Manager Xebeker in a leLter received by John Matson, one of the directors di-rectors of the company. In his letter Mr. Xebeker said that streaks of lead-silver ore. four to five inches wide, had been encountered in the face of the drift and that everything indicated in-dicated that an ore body of considerable size would be cut within a short distance. dis-tance. The drift has passed through the big ehale bed. through one bed of white lime and is now In a bed of softer lime which carries the streak's of ore. Mr. Xebeker said the miners were work- i ing in the first, bed under the beds which made the big slopes in the old workings, ; and expressed the opinion that the ore 1 body would be encountered when the next j bedding had been penetrated. |