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Show -i Horn Silver Now Staging Comeback Staging its most impressive cometbock since 1931, the old Horn Silver mine at Frisco is going in for gold production. Including a lease just granted on the 300-foot level, operations are now in progress pro-gress at three places. The main shaft, equipped with a new electric elec-tric hoist, has been reconditioned to the 300-foot station, and the Christopherson Leasing company, a Eureka organization, is developing develop-ing a vein which in 1931, when last exploited, produced 6500 tons and brought the company about $90,000. Then there is a gold deposit in the Farnsworth tunnel, recognized .as a new discovery, from which 112 tons were shipped in March. Manager Sidney B. Harman expects ex-pects it to produce 300 to 350 tons monthly while it is being opened up. And, finally, there is the "one-man" "one-man" operation of Tony Svalina in his lease at' the south end of the Horn. The Christopherson company is composed of George Christopherson, Christopher-son, Elmer Snell, David Gwilliam and Frank Bengter. The stope in which they will work is between 200 and 300 feet south of the shaft and on a north-south vein. The ore normally carries about a quarter of an ounce of gold and is somewhat better than 10 feet wide. The silver in it runs from five to 10 ounces. Superintendent Karl Hanney is opening up the Farnsworth ore crosscut from the bottom of a winze 50 feet below tihe tunnel. He has the north wall of it, but the south wall has not been encountered en-countered in the 20 feet the crosscut cross-cut has been driven. The vein, i with a north dip, is apparently I making straight into Grampian I hill. Two shif ts are employed. ! Tony Svalina has a small gaso-S gaso-S line hoist on a 150-foot shaft and I now has a man helping him. They take out five tons of lead-silver I ore daily. |