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Show MERGER DRIVING TO INTERESTING GROUND Rumors wero current on the streets today of Important developments on the proporty of tho Goldfield Merger Mines company, the reports coming as a result of the advance In the quoted prices of the stock from an opening at 31 cents bid to sales at 41 cents, the stock closing at 3S bid. Inquiry brought out the apparently authentic Information that some fractures frac-tures of small fissures that are characteristic char-acteristic of thp ore bearing formations forma-tions of tho district havo been ex posed In tho crosscut that is being driven from the Merger shaft, on tho 1, 330-foot level and to the west, for the purpose of connecting with tho Consolidated workings of the Grlzzh Bear mine. It Is also said that n strong flow tZ water has been developed In thlG crosscut and this has been accepted as ovidence of the proximity of the faco of the cut to a vein, a condition which is often found in tho district but which Is by no means an infallible infalli-ble Indication of the near presence of ore. It Is said that no quartz has appeared ap-peared at this point in the crosscut, but that the formation Is regarded favorably fa-vorably by the management Gold-field Gold-field Tribune. nn |