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Show RICH ORE FOUND Hi GALENA IN BEAVER LAKE DIST Three feet of ore assaying $2 In gold per ton. 50.3 ounces of silver, 9.1 per cent lead and approximately 3 to 4 per cent copper has been opened open-ed upon the surface of the Galena Mining company's estate, situated twelve miles northwest of Milford, according to President and Manager M. C. Morris, who has returned from a week's visit to the Beaver Lake district dis-trict property. While going over the surface nea the Galena shaft 1500 feet west of the Chloride shaft, Mr. Morris saw what he believed to be a promising lead. On putting in one round of holes and blasting, three feet of ore was opened up for a distance of six feet. Being impressed with the favorable fa-vorable appearance of the mineral, which carries iron, bromides, cholo-rides cholo-rides and malachite in a quartz gangue, Mr. Morris took an average sample. An assay proved that the rock carried the values given above, he said. The ne wstrike js 0r a nl0ct promising prom-ising nature, according to Mr. Mor-h's. Mor-h's. bv re-icon of the favorable geological geo-logical conditions. The vein carries fully fifteen feet of quartz. From the old Galena shaft about forty feet east of the new discovery considerable consider-able good ore was mined during early days. Conditions on the ninety-foot level lev-el of the Chloride shaft sunk on the same vein 1 500 feet to the east are gratifying, reported Mr. orris. Thirty-five feet south of the shaft a cross break five feet wide is being followed Throughout the vein matter, consisting consist-ing of spar, lime and quartz, Is scattered scat-tered wih considerable high grade silver-lead ore. All indientionsi are said to be favorable fa-vorable to the belief that the downward down-ward ey'ension of the ten Inches of ?nn ore followed for some distance on the fifty-foot level should be soon encountered Tribune. |