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Show LEHI-WIC CUTS HEW BODY OF 01E George Xielioles. mine superintendent of the Lehl-Tintic property of the Tintic rlistrlql. came up from the mine yesterday yester-day with the news that a new hotly of ore had been cut in the work of runnin? the airline tunnel. This was project p and turned some months ago to make direct connections vith the wire from the main working shaft, with the main object of solving the ventilation problem for the mine. This airline tunnel is now in about 60u feet and will reach -the desired connection connec-tion at a farther distance of lO feet. The cutting of a body of hish-rade iead-cilver-gold ore in this section of the workings, s:ud Mr. Nicholes, was not at nil expected, but. ;-o i.n" as the development develop-ment atrnifKd durinsf the Ia--t lew shifts l1. has shown, it appears tu he of much importance. im-portance. He said that the ore is about ten feet wide and the mi ncrs have Lione In on it for a distance of iifteen feet. Samples takr. for assny show values of 13 per cent, .3 pc.v cent. 5" per cent l-ad, ol ounces and S'J ounces bilver p-r ton. one sample carrying ?2 in gold. Since start ins; the a irl i nr tmmel, id Mr. Xiclmles. the Lehi-Tintic has cut live dh-Unct fi-:?ires. with valnen that demand development, anrl, in !iis opinion, tih'-ii' is no quest ion of tiic paying future of i he property v hen Ihe connection toivinj,- I'n-s vntila timi problem t-iiall have Leen completed. |