Show new strike made at victoria mine 0 ore which may be continuation of deposit previously opened is located in crosscut on 1550 mine looks good manager imer pett ot of the bingham mines properties was in eureka on thursday for the purpose ot of inspecting spec ting operations at the fagle blue bell and victoria mines both of which are owned by his company at the victoria a new strike was made a few days ago a tine fine bunch ot of ore which runs well in gold sliver silver and lead being opened in a cross cut about feet above the 1650 1 level all ot of the victoria work la Is being handled through the eagle blue bell dell the main levels of 0 the latter mine are used but the point at which the new strike has been made Is about 1680 feet below the collar of the victoria shaft some time ago a raise was started from the 1650 1550 level more for the purpose of ventilation than anything else and when it reached a point feet above the showing was so encouraging that a crosscut was started started and only 80 feet of work was necessary to open the ore which may possibly be a portion ot of the big 0 oro 4 0 channel which has already been tapped on a number of the upper levels manager pett and bupt william owens are highly pleased with the manner in which the victoria Is responding to development work much new now ore having been opened during the past year and they look for this mine to equal the splendid record of the eagle blue bell most of the ore which has recently been encountered in the victoria has been of excellent grade the gold being baing beher baher a rat rather her important factor at the eagle blue bell mine about the most important piece of new work Is the drift on the 2000 level something ime feet of work has already been done on this thle level and within the next feet it Is 18 sate safe to say the ore channel will be encountered for the month of december tho the eagle and victoria shipped a total of one hundred carloads of ore for january their output was ninety two and there Is a very good chance of the february record exceeding that of december no effort Is being made to crowd production however because of the difficulties and excessive expenses under which mining operations are now being handled n |