Show M mine ine development program announced the immediate sinking of the beaver gold shift shaft from the to the foot level and the rapid extension of the tunnel on ohp gold queen property at fortuna are the two important development announcements of the week in the beaver gold fields made public by R H strickland and A T burton mining engineers of suit salt lake and beaver who have just returned from the utah metropolis where they were in ron conference ferance with the dl directors of the beaver gold and fortuna gold queen mining companies the decision to prose cute with energy the tha development on both properties was brought about by the excellent showings already achieved and means that these companies will set the pace fur for the spring activity about to beet in 1 I found a very optimistic mining sentiment prevailing in salt lake said mr strickland and was gratified at the very marked interest now shown in the news from beaver mining men generally are watching this section carefully and I 1 have no hesitation in giving my belief that there will be a big influx of investigators to look at the quartz mines and the placers as soon as weather conditions ease up a bit or within the next sixty days directors and stockholders of both the beaver gold and the fortuna gold cold queen are a r e enthusiastic and will see through an c of development the first contract let for tle the beaver gold last fall took the new shaft down to the foot level where a crosscut cross cut revealed an 18 foot ledge of gold quartz declared to be the edme ledge as the famous sheep rock kock v vein ein 1 the showing here is so good that the dai directors actors have authorized another feet in depth and this work will be resumed in a few days the work on the fortuna Fortun aGold gold queen contemplates a tunnel feet feekin in length feet of which has already been completed it was planned to strike the ore shoot in a big outcropping cropping out ledge at a depth of about feet but for the last iasi GO 60 feet tha ahn tunnel has been driven in vein matter the ore a aei aging craning about 5 across five feet A picked sample taken from the high grade streak in this ledge returned 48 when the tunnel reaches its objective point at phelto foot face it will then in all kikeli hood bo be in the higher grade shoot of ore which averages about 20 as t shown by surface assays essays |