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Show BIO OBE ASSAY. Eight lnche of ore found recently In a four-foot ledge on Wheeler mine. Yering-ton Yering-ton district, assays almost $3000 to the ton. Reports of the (treat strike were received here yesterday by C. D. Rook-lidge. Rook-lidge. beneral manager of the mine. Other -assays of the strike average from $101 to $1300 to the ton. the latter figure predominating. Clarence Rooklldge. superintendent su-perintendent of Wheeler, stated In a letter let-ter to the management that the new-strike new-strike was made In what t known as the eaut vein, and was reached by a 1 on -foot crosscut runnlog from 'he tunnel on the west ve:n. at a point 13" feet below the surface. The ledge becomes richer with depth, it l. claimed. |