| Show apex standard may soon develop into bonanza shareholders of the apex stand dard mining company are highly elated on account of recent develop ments on the level where drift ing has been in progress for several weeks and where some ore has been uncovered manager lewis merriman states that while the new discovery can hardly be called a strike it Is by far the best showing that the com pany has had and it is almost a cinch that a genuine strike will soon be made giving the east section 7 an entirely new mine and placing those who have been backing the apex standard in the capitalistic class aff the a drift on the level of the ff apex standard caf in which 0 aw the ore has been disclosed has 7 been driven 7 a distance of about ff feet toward the north during the iffa entire dis W tance faw it has 4 been following quite close to the contact 7 between 7 the a quartzite or soluble cliney and the other limestone some bunches of ore have been encountered ria from time to time 2 a but the most 7 important development came about a week ago when pieces af lead silver ore be came more plentifully scattered through avy the vein ff matter wy which for the ef e f past twelve ag or fifteen y a feet fey has covered almost the entire face of the drift V it is a very easy 2 to pick 4 up some a fine pieces of ore some of the assays showing yaffa ew exceptional at lead and silver values but the ore as it occurs is not of commercial 2 w grade and no eniy effort 2 is being made to save any of it 11 manager WW merriman f is confident that he is now on ff the right track for f ww a big tyas ore deposit vy lie may possibly y have ofey to change bwy the course taff of the w i drift before getting into commercial wy v ore j and assar ass there Is Kr a possibility that wv he will have to 7 go deeper and ff so waw i it will be asaf with a which will ff wy follow the lead already opened up ff n vy future waft developments will be watched with keen 2 interest by everyone who Is interested in the east awa aw see 7 ff iffa tion a because a strike diw in the w apex fv 7 wa standard will haven SK sw an important w bearing on half ewy a dozen tw other pro a bertles and is will yay mean 0 unusual vyv ae in that r section 7 as which lies 7 vhf to the south of the gintic tintic standard the apex ja cef standard company owns ww a large tract diw of mineral land to 70 the wf south and east of the aff gintic tintic J stan dard az the anuw claims paris nave tv for many v years isy been held by local ayi wy people i lewis merriman organized a the com a pany something like two years ago and w hag devoted all of his time to f ww the development campaign jy but iskow out of the 1 shares y wa w have been issued www and the greater sw part of this stock Is held y locally ff among the heaviest ff shareholders jf be aisy fi sy w ing mr merriman james ejk norman w hugh heffernan frank wal ter 7 jensen george tinsman and others no assessments have been levied fiyo on apex standard 7 stock which was kaw first put out wy at 10 isy cents and if affy which while not W listed jaff Is fefe now reported f to be bringing several times aisy that s amount |
