Show i I I SOUTH HECLA ECA r RAISES ORE SHIPMENT TO 80 TONS DAILY General Manager Watson of the South Hecla reports that the mine is keeping shipments up to an average of eighty tons a day The long drift drifton on the big ore body on the foot I level of the Wedge workings Is now out feet from the point where It first entered the ore ore and the face shows ore of the same grade that has prevailed for the entire entre gade distance No S raise Is up forty forty five feet teet and continues continues con con- in ore of or exceptionally good grade gade A A. crosscut was run this week on the drift level between No 7 and No 8 raise rise and proved the vein to be twenty five twenty feet between strong well well- wel- wel defined walls wals In the lease workings the raise on the Kate Hays fissure is up feet The ore at this point is not looking quite quie as good as heretofore but is still of good shipping grade These lessees have made a large output for several months and there is a considerable tonnage tonnage ton ton- I nage in sight The development work has been kept ept well wel ahead and It will wi require months for the ore to be worked out ut It I is expected that in following the he ore out on on various levels from the raise rise it I will prove up more extensive than has been shown any anyplace anyplace place placa in this working thus far Car The drift on the level 1 Is being sent ahead ts as fast Cast as conditions will wi permit No ore development of consequence consequence con con- con I seque sequence e has taken place as yet yet but conditions Ideal for a big ore deposit have been found The management still sti has faith in the ore being developed devel developed on on this level but it may be bo necessary necessary necessary sary to do some crosscutting to get a aline aline alne line lne on the dip of oC the shoots that appear appear ap ape ap- ap pear to be coming down strong from the workings higher up When the ore is cut on this level a connection wl will willbe willbe be made with the upper workings working and this cheapen will wi mining facilitate development and I |