Show lower louer mammoth mining co held its annual meeting at the annual meeting of 0 the low er mammoth mm alin ng co held at salt lake on tuesday afternoon of this week the following directors were el acted W S 8 mccornick F D john dern A reeves beeves george if dern J C D ck ek anam P braffet general manager Manage rJ en 0 D ck sub bub in eted his report in which he be said that one during the past year had been confined confined con finel principally to proa pros pecking th tha ter territory atory overlying and nt ait t toi th immense deosie of it low grade tin no eore ore between th 1 1500 and levels ea leas ng operations have he boeyer e e been carr ed on on throughout fie e older workings of t the in ne A large part of the company a work nork has been in upraising from the 1500 level and cros crosse ng and drifting from these raises in this work some small depos depoi ta ts or at org ore of a shipping grade have been encountered but in i A a instance was the yield sufficient to repay the outlay although the work emphasized the extent of the ore on the property it lt As 13 estimated that the partially developed zinc ore is tons assaying about 13 per cent z no this is in the form of a zinc carbonate an ani zinc s licate and some progress has been made in a met allara cal process by which the re luct duct on may be made commercially but it can only be considered a future asset it is the belief that there will ba be found above the zino zinc deposit some large ore bodies of a commercial grade witch wh ch will account tor for th source of the zinc at greater depth drifts were mere started on the buo ani 1000 1030 levels last lat month to reach the territory directly over the zinc de pos pas ts and the intention is to con t nue these drifts to the contact upon which the main ore body on the 1703 1700 level was wag found several years on the level the ore was wag de for fifteen feet on the strike at an average width of four feet A raise on the shoot for th arty feet re s gilted in breaking down ISO tons an I 1 three cars of th s ore shipped ga gave e net smelter returns of 3 8 to the ton to n the ore in the top of the is at present low grade carrying twelve ounces s iver a kittil col caiper per and some gold A small bunch of it gh grade ore was ene encountered when the laise was started shoving about oun ces silver the raise has been dis continued and sinking a on the shoot has been started the most promising ons have been found on the 1000 level the west drift fissure co the south is be ing prospected by this working h is no v out about GOJ feet from the shaft the last fifty feet of th s ork has sho strong ore in indica dica eions ani a few tons have been picked out the company slipped sh aped tons of zinc during the year to the east ern refineries ani 1259 tons of cop A per and lead ore to the valley amel the company has some money on hand ani it is booed thit that some permanent results will soon be ob tamed |