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Show Old Abandoned Mine Is a Likely Producer Old Clipper and Slher King'- Wr" Vein nf Lead Carbonate Heemereil A I Depth. From an apparently reliable source. It Is learned that during Hie past week, the new owners of (lie old Clipper and Sliver King have again broken Into tho rich ore sluile that several yearn ag promised to make 111 ml"" famous The ore was originally round In the upp'T tunnel, from which point It was stopped up In Hie guise rools The new llml was made in (lie lower tunnel, and Is with little doubt Hie same elu that was lost BO or 00 feet above, excepting Hint it has wld ,.ed frnni six Inches wlieie It wnt-Inst, wnt-Inst, to iwelio Inches where It was broken Into Hits week. will be remeiiilieied that Hie nit owners, during tbe boom of soei. o. !g 11 yea is ago, rnr.ncd a. corpora ton took the properly over and ciea ed i jeiisa ion by Bl rlklng a line von o ? 'carbonate ore thai J wards or 7U.O T Ion. Sev e . I 1 dred sacks were Inkei. out mil m "l, and after doing hundref re ir nroi'pecting work, looking In aii for tl e vein, the stockholders r red or paying IrlBli illvlilfi.tl. Ilit company ailed lo pay Itfl corpo rn 'ox at.d Ita charier was ....null I. ' the properly was nbaudoined lll Hi statement that the property was on i other proor that American l-oil can! on dist rlct was only a BniM root . pocket camp. U Last January Charloy liarljAud Ike Wadley, knowing that tho-fpropoity had been nbnndomcdTor Bovcral ycara, went uii the canyon oil snoVi? shoes and relocated It There, fa w'bfg por-idijry por-idijry dike running through tho.Kiouinl tor about IJ.OUO loot. Tills porphyry rcnemblcB the Illiigham oro rjuid Is known to carry alucs li' gold, silver and cojiper It was for Uiof'purposo of tcBtlng out this vein, with, a view or milling It ir tho vnlu3 proved Btif-llcont, Btif-llcont, that Messrs Karl mid AVadlcy aciiulred the propel ty. jf, Last week they went over tho property pro-perty to got Bomo samples for the purpose pur-pose of making mill tcsto of them. Whllo getting the necessary .samples, Ike Wadley, who Is a prospector by natiiic, began examining tho formation forma-tion whero the ore wns encountered eight or (en yearn ago, and tlicn.yWcnt down Into tho lower tunnel - and lo his surprise found tho same, formation forma-tion between the porphyry mid' tho lunitzltc, To his surprise hofotind that the pld shaft had been BuiiKjfroin tho upper tunnel to the lower tunnel without having hit (lie vein In i'C single sin-gle place (Ho natural oconli-of' ore told him that tho shaft had bccnBUtik practically all this distance wlthUac oro casing for one wall ot tlio shaft. To tesi out his theory ho sunk" his pick Into the casing, and almostnIth the llrst blow pulled out lino carbonate carbon-ate ore that will probab'y aBsayJ$70 per ton It lies In (ho quiutzltOjiiuxt to the porphyry Tho old owncrirliad i mi on" Into the softer porphyry! for hundreds of reel, beciiuso It showed mineralization and was easy digging, and like many other mliicrit dldnot expect to llud the oro in tho quart-zlte. quart-zlte. ; Messrs Karl and Wadley iiro.bolli reticent about ca'llug tho Btrlkofan Importnnl one, and did not wnutUb say muchaboiil It till they liavo hud an opportunity of doing several weeks work on ft. Hut while tho strlko has not yet been proven, indications aro very strong Hint tl Is the old Clipper .Mill the Silver King's vein mid Is quite likely to develop Into a shipping proposition pro-position this summer If the new llml is n real strike, tho lackey owners will have about sixty, feel or sloping ground rrom the present pre-sent tunnel level, and by going dowtf the hill on the Silver l.nko Bide, a tunnel may be ran In on tho porphyry and a depth or 800 feet obtained. . The Wadk'' HiotlieiB have auothor ear or ore ni Pleasant (Irovo ready to ship to the muelter from their leaue on the old Miller mine. Thoy have about four feet of ore, but. whore 'It Is now making the ground Is bo loono that the, minors are experiencing groat riiniculiy In Inking It out ami kccnltiEi Jt qlonVi. -It-pi almost Mm drtYhya tunnel Hirnugh a big dump. |
