Show COLD ILL HILL SAMPLES OF OFT FOOT fiVE T LEDGE Rr RICH H IN GOlD FORTUNA FORTUNA Utah Feb Four Four assays assays as- as says from the Gold Hill Hi property five miles miles' mies' mies e ast altof of Fortuna and and in in- inthe the same mining district indicate that this property property prop prop- erty has devel developed ped substantial bodies of ore The samples were taken by James A. A Robinson of Beaver in the vicinity of ore discoveries he ie e made early in fn January 1916 and are averages across a foot five foot outcrop at four tour different points They show in gold and silver 1597 1171 17 and respective respective- iver ly iy A tunnel that is leading to a point well wel under these thesa surface values has hs already already already al- al ready developed a substantial quartz body and Indicate occasional values running In rare instances as high as per ton The Gold Hill adjoins th the heep Sheep Rock mine which Hi has made quite quie a number of shipments of high gade grade gold and sliver silver ore The new find wilt will wi be developed by its Is Salt Sal Lake and Beaver owners as fast as circumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances permit The Beaver Gold property which Is on he the opposite side of o the Sheep Rock mine from the Gold lull Hill property has Hi launched the second comparatively deep mine project In the Fortuna gold region In m the shape of a crosscut from the kot- kot tha torn Im tom ot of its Is 3 foot foot fo t crosscut shaft shaf It I is estimated that thIs adit will WI wi reach the main Gold Hill 11 vein vein which is Is the south extension ot of J the Sheep Rock lode lode- in sixty more r fe feet of drifting The management has great geat expectations regarding results based on the occurrence of both high and low grade gade values above this point in the outcrop outcrop out out- crop and the fact that the vein was twenty feet wide when it dipped away from m the shaft shaf at at the sixty-foot sixty away level and n that most of the vein matter was a I low gram grade milling ore Sinking mater Was started t a little over a year ear ago when the uie company equipped the property with I a gasoline engine and nd hoist 11 th the The T mine e es management at the shaft f of J United nI s States Smelting Refining ln and I Mining Alining company at Fortuna is of ot the opinion that It is in a great get undetermined mined body of low grade gade milling ore near Its shaft shaf on the foot five foot eighty level as a result resul of explorations by means of its recent cent crosscut to the vein west of ot the shaft It I is said that an unusually wide zone of low grade values was disclosed wa by this crosscut The The fact that the operators operators operators oper oper- have started another crosscut eastward eastward east east- ward for another vein is taken to mean that they are still exploring a zone one one of ot low grade gade values It I is asserted that no high grade was encountered at the point where the crosscut intersected the west vein and that no attempt tempt will wi be made to develop ore bodies on either vein until after ter the company has completed Its pres ent eat plan to sink to the foot OO-foot level John Cleghorn well wen known mine owner of American Fork canyon of ot Utah and Seven Troughs Nev Is la visiting Fortuna The purpose of Mr SIr Cleghorn's visit is to st dy the camp and its it possibilities He expects to remain in the district for forI some time I |