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Show LOCAL MEN INSPECT SILVER SHIELD MINE ji excellent showing of lead-sulphide ore with considerable Iron pyrites Is being be-ing opened up In the Silver Shield mine in the Bingham district, according to A. C". ChriHtensen. who, with Harry Cram, secretary of the company, K. G. Woolley and Allen T. Sanford, visited tho mine 3b Tuesday evening. An upraise from the main tunnel le-vel encountered this showing at a distance of approximately eighty feet above the tunnel, which la said lo be malting off into a bedding of favorable limestone. When Mr. Chrietensen visited the mine tho back of the upraise at Its -widest place was twelve feet wide and ten feel nigh; ore had been taken out for a distance of Mix feet back of the back. One round of holes brought down a larpe amount of Uiia ore. Holes bored up In tho top of the r.ilwi proved that tlio oro extended at least two feet higher. It ! said. |