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Show STRIKE IN COLUMBUS; RICH ORE IN TUNNEL A strike of great significance is the result of the latest developments in the Columbus of Alta, and from present Indications In-dications not many shifts will go by lefore the property will again be productive pro-ductive of a steady output of high-grade high-grade ore. Ten days ago In the lower tunnel, which is now in a distance of 925 feet, the porphyry dyke was reached and alter cutting through this for thirty feet, stringers of rich ore began to come in which have constantly increased In number and size in the fifteen feet of progress made since the dyke was cut. These stringers are from one to five inches in thickness, carry about 40 per cent lead and 100 ounces silver per ton, i and the face, top. bottom and sides of the tunnel is composed of this mineralized mineral-ized product. A few more shifts should bring the miners into solid ore, where the vein will be tapped at a vertical depth of 300 feet. The pitch Is so flat that between this tunnel and the upper workings the company will have nearly 400 feet of eloping ground. |