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Show The San Franpisco Chronicle reports that arrangements ar-rangements have been perfected to thoroughly drain the old Comstock and uncover yast deposits depos-its of low grade ore known to exist in the depths, op the 1G50 foot level of the Caledonia, where a great body of ore running from $10 to $20 per ton in gold exists, also on the 2200-foot level of 1 the Alta there' is a body of ore 125 feet wide with values greater than those of the Caledonia. At I 1.20.29 for silver. Comstock ore runs 56 per I pent In silver and 44 in gold, so the $10 ore would bo worth about $17, which, with the mines I drained ought to leave a profit of perhaps $8 per f ton. Those mines have been submerged more Jthan twenty years. y With the work inaugurated Virginia City 'Ought to take on something like the ghost of its former self. By the way it was our esteemed fellow citizen David Keith, who sank the Cale- donia shaft. |