Show important strike at the Opo hongo leasers get into high grade gold ore between the and level face sample sh shows 0 ws about two and a half ounces A very important strike has just been made in the opo hongo ongo mine at mammoth a splendid body of gold ore being opened in a block of gro ind upon which mark ste stee stele le and william johnson have a lease I 1 these hese leasers teasers have been at wora in tha the Op j for the past eix six months and during I 1 that time they have slipped sh aped about three carloads of very n ce copper and it was while following fol folio loving ving a small s nall bunch of copper ore that they en countered the gold bearing quartz when it was ras first lo 10 abed this quartz contained nothing but the gold and the leasers passed the ro k ip for several days considering it of no particular value but later they had it assayed and when the report from the assayer showed that it carried five ounces in gold they nearly died of heart failure other assays betherl were made and all of 0 them sho shoved ved better than an ounce in gold golda the best go ing as higa as a x ounces theodore hatfield th the sec of the company was m out from the cap ital yesterday ind find in company with supt bupt samuel cox made a very thor ough examina ton on of the nev ne v find they state that the new ore b body is fully fen en feet in width and that a pile sample showed t vo and a half ounces in gold as well as a little copper I 1 itus his means that the ore is dorth in the ne 0 of 50 to the ton just as it is broken down by the miners to start with it con tamed only the gold but the last few days some copper has been corn com ing in in III s ore is entirely d from anything that the Opo hongo has had in recent years mort most of the ore that has been mined f from roni th s ground during the time that leasers teasers have been at work mork there has been what is known as arsenical arsen cal copper wh ie the new ore body contains what might be termed gold quartz there is con sid erable iron and spar in the quartz and the ore depos t has the ear marks of permanency the new dis dig covery aas has been made in a I 1 port ort on I 1 of the property that has bag not been developed to any extent and conse there is a splendid chance of it mak n a into so son neth ethna bis bi T an afe other thing that makes it gaw importance v the fa t thatis that it is deeper than any of the oie bod es eg that have been feind in this m mine in the past few years I 1 most of the ore that has been in n ed from the Opo hongo and from which the company has paid its divi bends was taken from the workings above the level some work was Z done to a depth of feet and a small deposit of rather lo 10 iov v grade copper ore was found on th s last mentioned level but systematic pros pecking 0 the vein failed to reveal anything of in poi tan e the ore body that steele coinson have op ened is about fifty feet above the level and from present ind ca tiona it will extend to even greater depth other blocks of ground in the opo hongo are being worked under the u leasing system by and sm th and wilde and S 8 nith copper ore be ing mined in the upper workings mor kings of the in ne supt bupt cox is prospecting an entirely s new nemr ore channel w th 0 conditions o very favorable for getting into some ne nev v ore As a result of the ne v strike in th a mine raine the Opo hongo stock has ad danced a few po ants on th salt lake t 0 exchange and further adeane s w 11 no doubt oe in order if it the ore body II 11 4 continues to improve |