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Show Old MINES H J 2 Seven proporties under active dcvol- H opments, each with men working on H ' ore, and tho camp at present employ- H ing between forty and fifty mincr3, B conditions in the Lucin mining dls- B trlct in western Box Elder, on the mM state line, and half a dozen miles mM southeast from Tecoma, Nev., are H' most gratifying this winter, is tho mM report which C. F. Whipple, general H manager of tho Mineral Mountain mM Miuing company. Hl An important discovery for the dla- Hl trlct has lately been made hy Alma IHI r Tanner, superintendent of the MIn. j oral Mountain. Heretofore ail the big J mines of tho district have been on tho south dip of the great east-west ore zone. Rich float has been found HJ on the north dip, but no ore found Hl , In place Until a short time ago when H ; Mr. Tanner, who Is a Utah miner, H1 formerly of Tooele, discovered a cop- H per mineralized porphyry dike 300 H feet wide. This Ib apt to point the H way k) tho opening of largo now H mines in this old producing district. I Hi Mr. Whipple says he has Just com" i H pleted tho installation of a twonty- H fivo horsepower gasoline hoist at tho H : Mineral Mountain's 2S0-foot incline B shaft. This was justified by a striko B made in the shaft fifty feet back of H v. the present faco. The entire face Is H J in ore, Showing Uireo rich streaks B - which run from $50 to 80 a ton. This Bt carries four ounces silver to the unit T ' of lead with $2 to $3 in gold. It Is B figured from present indications that B less than fifty feet further theso three B streaks will unite in ono heavy vein 1 of high-class shipping grade. B This property has produced at odd B J limes slnco the GOs $100,000, some of Hlj it having run extremely high in silver. HI ' A car showing $125 was only ordinary. Bi Next wedc the force will bo doubled, Bj r nnd i(- '5 expected this incline will B I catch one of tho old productive ore M i shoots within a short time. m 'ii- n i'uiiu. wv 1001. irom uio moutn HI of tho Incline a drift Is being sent out H i to cut under another portion of the HI old productive territory It Is in eov- Hl I onty-fivo feet now, and when 150 feet HI should reach the objective point It I wJH cut seventy feot under tho lowest old workings. Up thero Mr. Wlilpplo M tested ore found in the lowost places, 1 and found tho oro body going down H s strongly, showing values as high as H $125, silver iredoniinating. H - The Salt Lake Copper, which is ship. ' ping almost constantly a high-grade of copper oro to the Salt Lake mar-H mar-H J hols, recently broke into a now oro a body fifteen feet thick. This Is In the B 'ViKKw' B0IJtn ond o tno 0,fl "filory holo." H JrSte1 aAJvcn UI so zuuch food ore. |