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Show NEW STOCKTON MINE. Results Show What Hard Work Can Accomplish In a Mine. Visitors to tho property at Stockton of tlio New Stockton company and they aro very numerous nt this Interesting Inter-esting period of tho mlno's history are unanimous In their expressions of surprlso and satisfaction over the excellent ex-cellent conditions provalllnc In this Infrequently mentioned property. Tho Kathcrlno vein, which hns provided no small amount of shipping oro from tho very surfneo to tho depths whero tho' sulphides havo entered, Is exhibiting with depth proportions that lead tho visitor to the realization that this vein would mako n mlno In Itself. Tho change from tho carbonates to the sulphides In tho Now Stockton began be-gan to bo marked nt tho 700-foot level. When the vein wnB reached on tho 850-foot level a clean breast of oro from six to eight feet ln width was encountered, and an upralso to tho 700-foot level exposed tho samo char acler of hlgh-grndo oro for something mora of tho oxtent of this great sul--phldo deposit, a drift was run' along. Its side for nlnety-threo feet, exposing expos-ing for this wholo distance about the sanlo character of oro. A winze from tho 850-foot lovel In tho sulphides has been started, and n crosscut Is being,' pushed to Intersect It on tho l.OOQ-foot, level, thus practically blocking out another an-other 150-foot stopo of even larger dimensions di-mensions than tho other ,, Over to tho west of tho shaft on tho i 700-foot Wei a falr-stzcd shoot, chief-.! ly-c.atbajjotCflv.'ftnponcd,an!l on Un'J 8fio-foot level this oro has changed nl-j most entirely to sulphides. The richer part was found to bo nbout four feet across tho faco and thlrty-flvo feet along tho strlko of tho vein, This mentis 3,500 tons of ore averaging nbout $700 per enr not Tho most Interesting developments, howovor, nro yet to come, tho management pushing their work In several different directions direc-tions on tho 1,000-foot lovel to open up sovernl shoots of ore. Upon tho nttnlnmont of this object, tho New Stockton will bo In shnpo to presont to tho visitor ono of tho most striking Illustrations of what hnrd work done qulotly and ngnlnst great odds can accomplish ac-complish In n mlno. Exchange. |