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Show GEMINI DRIFT IS SHOW UP WELL Development on 1800-foot Level Promises to Reveal Big Body of Ore. Special to The Tribune. EUREKA, Oct. 29. Superintendent John H. McChrystal. states that in the fiemini a drift is being driven toward the north on the big JS00 ore body, while stoping; operations are also under way on the same deposit. Tho ore is of excellent grade, equal to anything yet taken from the mine's lower workings and it is in a part of the mine in which there is ample room for it to make into-i into-i something big. Another piece of Mork ' that is of considerable importance to the I . Gemini is being prosecuted on the mine's 1600 level, from which point somo excel- lent ore is also being taken. Bbth the Gemini and the Ridge and Valley, operated through the same shaft, are shipping almost their normal, tonnage of ore notwithstanding tho labor shortage short-age and scarcity of railroad cars which has effected several of the Tlntic mines. At the Godiva tho work of opening the new ore deposit on tho 900 level is under un-der way, drifts being sent out to the north and south. No stoping will be taken up until the drifts givo the management man-agement a better line on the- extent of the ore, but there are many things to in-dlcato in-dlcato that tho mine is "coming back" after a long iean period and that heavy shipments will soon be in order there. Mr. McChrystat says that I. H. Spriggs. who has followed leasing in Tin tic for many years and who sterns to have a "cold nose for ore," has picked up a new-deposit new-deposit below the 700-foot level in the Godiva. His kase is not far from' the Knight block, from which some exceptionally excep-tionally rich ore has been taken. Recent assays show that the ore which Mr. Spriggs is mining will carry from 30U to 400 ounces silver. A shipment of this oro will soon be on the market and the Nisonger and Coombs and Anderson blocks of ground in the Godiva are also producing pro-ducing some excellent ore. The miners at work on the last mentioned lease are driving through an immense deposit of low grade material in which they are finding1 occasional bunches of good ore. |