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Show BIG STRIKE AT PALOMA. Five feet in ore and the actual extent of the body only to be determined deter-mined by future development work, is the story that Superintendent C. J. Graff of the Paloma Gold & Silver company sends up from Be.pver county, where the new strike was made this week. M. P. Braffet. president pres-ident of the Salt Lake Stock & Mining exchange, and president and general manager of the Paloma, is elated over striking this $175 bornite ore so soon after leaving the new station recently recent-ly cut on the 600-foot level. The drift was out only twelve feet, says the Herald, when it encountered encount-ered the ore. This was much sooner soon-er than anticipated. Superintendent Graff writes that the fissure must ha'e spread as it gained depth, or he would not have encountered it for ten or fifteen feet more. Yet it is possible that it changed its dip slightly slight-ly at depth, which would account for the agreeable surprise. The way it is now-pitching it is thought that a continuation of the main working shaft twenty-five to thirty feet further fur-ther would catch it. Most of this work on the 600 has been in the monzonite, which seems to be associated with the ore deposition deposi-tion in that part of the Star clis- |
