Show f Mines and Mining I Sprague s F. F Edited w. w e VEIN I N J SILVER iSLAND Disclosures of Utmost Importance Importance l tance Made by New Company S Opening Opening- of or ore feet teet below the faulting plane plane ore oro which appears rB to tc tobe be fully as M rich as that o of which r was shipped from above the thc faulting plane which Is la only only- thirty feel feet from the surface surface convinces convinces Murray E 13 King Kins that the tho Silver Island Mining company has hns not only virtually proven pro a n mine but has proven en the tho permanency of the district The significant feature of or the tho proposition Is that the tho ore bear S InS ing has cut through five ills ills- strata of or different kinds of ot lImor limestone lImo lime r stone with only a slight slip In one stratum the tho one at nt the surface The company's tunnel was waa run in atthe at nt atthe the root foot of ot a cliff clift where wh re depth Is la grained gained d vel very rapidly It has hils been driven S I about tort forty feet attaining depth of ot more than feet from tram the tho surface It was thought that It might have ha to tobe tobe tobe be run feet leet before results of ot consequence conse conso- quence would bo be obtained that being the distance required to get under tho the ln showing Bu But ore oro was encountered at twenty feet and Improvement has 1139 been steady The last t ten n feet there has been a foot loot of ore are which It Is believed od will run better hetter than HOO a aton aton aton ton In silver lea lead an and copper It Is Oiled filled with silver silvor chlorides and anel bromides and shows copper stains It evidently carries c higher sliver values than does dolos the tho surface ore with perhaps lesS lesS' lea lead Aside from flom the tho toot tool of ore which is known to be bo high grade is another twelve twel Inches of or honeycombed quartz quart which shows silver bromides the Indi Indications callons being that it runs rune 30 to the ton Experts contend that thoro there Is chanca for feet teet of ot productive e ground on this 11 fissure u re with strong possibility that chambers of ot tho grado high oro ore will be found at Intervals Another Lode Ilce In the tho company's ground are three or four tour strong fissures in all alj of which galena oro ore is found on the surface Andall And Anel Andall all of these fissures converge with a massive e Iron vein which courses through at different tingle and which is believed to be the mother lode the source of ot all the ore orr depositions AtS Atthe At the tho Juncture of ot one of at the fissures with S the iron vein has hns been found ft n chamber chambor of oC ore oro from which In sinking eight ht feet twenty five tons of oro ore were taken talen Tho The theory was advanced that this would be found to bo be ono one of ot a 0 succession of such chambers and at atthe atthe the tho time Mr King left camp tamp tho the theory ha had been confirmed to the extent that tho the second ore oro chamber had Just been encountered at nt fifteen feet depth I Work ork Is being dono in four different places laces In tho the company's property Mr King Ins Ins- says sas and It la Is all tending to provo prove that a vein system of tremendous possIbilities possibilities possibilities pos pos- is being developed eloped I I |