Show I I I I IMORE DEVELOPMENT IS MORE PROMISING AT El Y CON MINE MIN President Sam Levy Ley of the Ely Consolidated Consolidated Con Con- Mining company lisa has ha Just returned re returned returned re re- turned from an Inspection of the tha properties prop prop- ertes in the Robinson mining district I He lie Ie reports good progress being fIred Ired made Ireda in drifting mr f front from g the fourth l level of f the Lack Zack a Urr shaft While in the camp he hE gave Kave out the following interview to the Ely Kly Expositor The inspection has shown me that the conditions arc changed very veo much for the better since I was here last Inthe Inthe In Inthe the Zack shaft the crosscut Is now twenty feet flat In ore The ore ores ore's Is oxidized in character character char char- acter actor and Is largely quartz porphyry While the crosscut Is now twenty tenly feet In ore arc tho the face still shows that the full ful extent ex extent ex- ex tent of or the ore orp has hal not n bc ben shown The Tho entire entre face of the crosscut is in the tho same material with no sign of ot diminution We Ve have have driven drifts north and south on the contact between tho the limo lime and tho 01 ore a total distance of sixty feet and both the north and south faces facos are still sti In the tho ore The values in the crosscut range from 29 per cent copper to o 30 ZO per pcr cent copper The higher grade of f copper ore C comes In J bunches and while h It ft It raises s the general average o vales val val- ues es and Is a most encouraging r sign I would not care to overestimate the tho vales val val- es of o those these bun bunches es of ore because th they are re not sufficiently large to make a a ma- ma mo difference in the standard of the general output of or the mine Tho The recent changes In tho the Zal Zack shaft shaf wih with the continued Improvement that IsI is beIng icing shown have caused tl tile tre o company company to o change the tho projected plan to explore the le depths beneath beneath the tha bottom of the ack Zack Zac by means of a churn drill dri which would operate through the tho man manway way from the ic surface The Tho showing Is so good that a little later the tho shaft shat will wi be sunk unk to greater r depths as we are that the showings that such development will wi make lake will wi fully justify that movement The he shaft will wi be he iriven driven straight down downto to o the beds In th the American Amerian shaft we have ha e encountered en- en countered a shoot of load lead ore and have haw followed It for forty feet along the wIn vein cin In the west drift The ore Is of good grade prado rae averaging 30 pet pel pel cent lead with wih values averaging about 22 2 in gold and nd silver We e do not know kow the extent ot of f this ore oro hod body as we are not through It t at the bott bottom mIn m. m In the north and south drift of the American Amerian we have not vet yet cut the east tast and nd west st veins for which h we are driving and the drift will wi be he continued until unfit title this vein Is reached In the east drift we re are arp In a good looking vein but thus I far ar th the ore has luu not developed I Ith In I the Brilliant shaft I we ar ara setting getting I rs th ho the ore In the raise in the west drift It Itis Its Is s a a. low grade iron Irn copper ropper sulphide The wins is I do down to water All Al In all the progress being made In Inthe th the he property Is 18 entirely satisfactory and we wo are aT well el pla pleased d with the latest sho show show- Ings in the various workings |