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Show FOUR MILFORD MEN DEVELOP NEW MINE ! TEST SHAFTS UNCOVER LEAD SPER ORE DEVELOPMENT WORK CONTINUES AT CLAIM GASOLINE HOIST IS INSTALLED SUNDAY The installation of a gasoline hoist last Sunday at the Big' Project climaxes the development work that has been carried on throughout the summer by the owners of the mine, R. E. Ellings-worth. Ellings-worth. Jim Hembv. Don Workman and Bert Nichols. The claims are located seven and a half miles south east of Milford in the Bradshaw mining district. Early in the -spring, Workman ami Hemby uncovered a fissure of rich lead-silver-zinc ore. Tracing it, they established that it is at least 2,500 feet long and takes a downward course from the point on the side of the mountain where it was first uncovered. un-covered. A thirty-five foot cut was made some hundred feet lower on the hill and here a two and a half foot ledge of lead-silver ore was exposed. Finally, Fin-ally, at the bottom of the hill a fifty-foot fifty-foot shaft was sunk and a thirty foot drift made from the bottom of the shaft where a strong vein of lead-silver lead-silver ore was found. The ore assays 20 percent lead, ten ounces of silver and ninety cents in gold and some zinc. With the conclusive establishment of the presence of the metal in quantity, quanti-ty, the owners installed a gasoline hoist Sunday and will be prepared to take out the ore as soon as the market justifies shipping. Work on the Big Project 'has continued con-tinued without publicity since the discovery dis-covery of the fissure this spring. The owners, though confident that they had valuable property, were disinclin- ed to make statements until the extent and the quality of the metal had been definitely established. |