Show T GOLD GA BY LITTLE MA MAY Y Values Found at Vein Intersection Intersection Inter Inter- section in Raft Raf River Mine Having accumulated eight to ten tenons tons ons of quartz that he estimates to tobe tobe toc be c worth around Gust W. W Maim Malm- borg org superintendent of the Little Lite Mays May's Raft River mine at Park Vale Valley writes Rf glowingly to t President John Matson Maton of the prospects at the prop prop- erty ert- The ore was saved in putting up a foot 25 Te raise from om the lower lower tunnel l at t an art intersection o oi 01 t Ine soum nonn-soum fissure and an west east break In a letter dated February 3 3 sent out ut by snowshoe Mr Malmborg says The Te ore in the raise is getting beter bet bet- ter er going up and in both directions It I is i getting wider ii in the top top about about two wo feet fee now We are ae storing the theore theore there ore re in the cast crosscut which is about half hal full ful now now In view of the difficulties of trans trans- at present Mr Matson Maton proposes pro pro- pro poses joses instead of authorizing a shipment ship ship- ment to the smelter to treat the ore oreIn orein in i the pilot piot mill mi at the mine This Thi can an be done successful successfully it is be- be be as soon as the water line lne to the themi mill nill mi thaws out a matter mater of two or three irce weeks In addition additon to raising Superintendent dent ent Malmborg is driving the lower main tunnel northward on the vein The he tunnel is in from the te portal about 00 feet feet of lead and gold are re practically continuous running into nto the pa pay class cas al at Intersections with wIt the he east and west fissures Fifty Fity to feet beyond the raise now ow being prospected another cross cross- vein cin of equally good possibilities should be cut There is no question queston in Mr Ir Maton's Matons Matson's Mat Mat- sons son's mind that the gold in the mine has las been carried by water from a parent lode and wherever where the le formation is permeable To reach the 19 of the enrichment Is the chief hief purpose of development de The Theold gold old deposition seems to be quite quie independent independent in in- dependent of the silver lead mineral mineral- except as they have mingled lizton through accidental assimilation though A A |