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Show BIG FOUR LEASE ON CROWN POINT HAS RICH VALUES Phenomenal showing, oro being? avada in tha nig Fwar loaoo oa tbo frown I'oint claim at tba top of Nenaal peak, whara tbo wondarfol vain anoountarad Ip tbo tnnnai at 0 vertical depth of eevenly foot baa wtdenod out to alawan foot of -oro and tbo aad la not rat. Tba loot pw oro ahoot. which la auppooad to ba a part of tha lain ledge, waa aooouototod OB Tuaoday with increasing value la otlTOr which hav already baon ropertod aa hlcb oa 121! to tbo ton. Tba minora bad advanoad two feet mora In this ore at laat raporta and had not yt reached t he foot wall of the vain, according to the Nevada Journal. The developments Id the Big Four leaae have been tbo chief topi Id th camp ol Rochester aad are ftlragaly clalailag tit attention of the entire weat. They have already opened up on of tha moat wonderful won-derful veins ever tapped in Nevada and their tunnel ta a till going tn am Tha main ledge waa tapped about two weeks ago. and each day haa only added to the excitement that haa followed the development of thla xtraordlnarv property prop-erty They croaeed through a body of ore aeven feet wide with six feat of It averaging 171 to th ton. They encountered encoun-tered a horeM in th vain a foot or two In extent aad again came into ore ?L higher grade, running from t0 to IKS to tha ton. They continued In thla or for forty inchea and again encountered a "horse, arrylng them three feet into country rook, after whleh they struck the third 'Jlvlalon of tha vla with richer ere than J n previously encountered. According o the laet advlcee received by the Journal, Jour-nal, they had progreaaed two feet Id thla new ore body and hed not yet en-ounterad en-ounterad the hanging wail. This gives a tutaj of eleven feet ol ore In the Big Four leaae, but owing to the fact that complete aaaay returns hav pot yet been secured, tha average vaJua qf the ore cannot b given The ayr showings, however, are of such nature that the mine la unhesitatingly declared one of the sr sat est of recent years, and mining experts, who have inspected the vein In the tunnel, are unanimous In tha pinion that a wonderful silver producer as been discovered. The reaulta of the development In tha nig Pour have only strengthened the !-tlef !-tlef of the Rochester Hills Mining company com-pany that In the Codd leaae adjoining 'hey will have the same vein and a property prop-erty of equal value. They are rushing their tunnel through aa faat aa possible. ..ml with twvntv feet more to mo. ainect ro strike the name ledge on the :tth of I IM month, or not later than tha flrat of Slarch. They have met with Identical condition kb those found In driving the lllg Pour tunnel and have already come ro the softening of the rock that Indl- Mee the nearness of the vein. As In the Big Four tunnel, the Codd runnel em-ountered a strata of extreme! nard rock at a dletance Indicating continuity con-tinuity nf tha strata. This rock waa of aurh nature that It took two aolfta to ut a single round of holes, aad thay were able to progreea only one foot In iwenty.four hours. This same trouble had been found In the Big Four tunnel, but after paaslng through thla aorta tha lock became much easier and thay pro-Kiessed pro-Kiessed rapldtv to tha vein. It la the intention of the Big Four iraaers to continue their tunnel for at least a hundred feet beyond the present point and It Is poealble that they will crosscut their entire block of ground. There will he some sloping on the vein in tha tunnel, aa thay have decided to 'Teate a dump at the mouth of the tunnel tun-nel for ore to he held ponding the completion com-pletion of the ore road. They will not stlempt anv estenatve shipping down llorhestrr csnvnn beyond sending out the are that was sacked from the shaft sunk on the outcrop of the vein |