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Show BIG STRIKE AT PALOMA. (Continued from Page 5) trict. The new station is being timbered tim-bered and a sump sunk to expedite future' operations on a larger scale. The sample of the ore forwarded to Manager Braffet gave returns of 43.6 ounces silver, 11.2 per cent lead and 43.95 per cent copper, making: a $300 ore. Another important piece of work which the Paloma has in view is drift- j ing from the main shaft out under a , big mineral outcrop 200 feet to the ' north of the collar of the shaft. Sur- face work proved the ore down tP j about twenty feet in depth. This outcrop out-crop is in a parallel fissure which can readily be reached from the new working shaft. The Paloma domain is located a little lit-tle southwest from the Old Hoosier Boy mine of the Majestic Mines company and is not far from the Moscow Mos-cow and Cedar Talisman. The Hoosier Boy shaft is now being sunk from the 600 to the 1000 level. There was a strike on the Hoosier's j 600 last spring. j The officials of the Paloma are M. J P. Braffet, president; Charles W. Olsen, vice president; Willard Se.ow-erot't, Se.ow-erot't, H. B. Cole and B. F. Caffey, ; directors. R. D. Pomeroy is the secretary and treasurer. The office is in the Judge building. j |