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Show fELElPlii REPORTS STRIKE Ore Body Stripped Distance j of 40 Feet, With 18-foot Face Developed. Development of an ore body of higrh-gradc higrh-gradc milling ore on tlie Beilerophon prop-err prop-err y in Atncri'-an Km li canyon luis resulted re-sulted from exploration work done on thfj Uellerophon adit l.y the American Lt-asing con:pany, aceordir, to Theodore Cl-.-fe-horn, who returned from tlie mine yes' erday. Kecenily, C. Ii. l-'erlin, m:m-atfor m:m-atfor of tho Amer.can Leasing company, which has a lor.g lease on the Silver Wave, the I-;:llerophon and Yankee rnin-intf rnin-intf claims, decided to do further devel-opment devel-opment work in the Beilerophon adit, one of the many workings which has been run to prove up the tdze of the deposits. Thrt'e rounds of powder put into the Imaging wail side of the figure vein at a point approximately midway between the portal and a winze, brought down ten tons of high-grade mining ore, it is said. Seven rounds put in later, one of which did not. fire, brought down approximately fifty tons of ore, according to Mr. Cleg-horn. Cleg-horn. Since the strike, a face eighteen feet wide with no foot wall in sight has been opened up and the ore body stripped for a distance of forty feet. Inasmuch as this fissure vein has been followed for 250 feet by this adit, and a winze sunk fifty feet, in ore, average samples of which for the whole width of the winze show 8 per cent lead, 1.5 per cent copper, 16 ounces silver and SI. 85 in gold, officials of the company are much impressed with the new find. An ore body which so near the surface shows c7o ohniilrl if i Mi-i-iinrl show PV- eel lent values and considerable magnitude magni-tude in the Holden tunnel which will cut the deposit at a vertical depth of 200 feet below the Selleroplv.'ii adit. All possible speed is being made to develop the new found ore body in the Beilerophon tunnel. For the present, work in tho Holden tunnel, which will tap at depth all of the ore bodies known to exist in this vicinity, has been interrupted inter-rupted to facilitate development of the newly struck deposit. The mill lias resumed operations and will continue to work two shifts per day. It is planned to work in the adit two machine men and three muckers. The output of this crew will be sufficient to supply the mill with ore. Two teams are hauling the ore from the chute to the mill, it is said. |