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Show Sensational Ore ' Strike in-Lakes Killarney Mine A sensational strike was made last week in the Lakes of Killarney property in the Ophir district A face of ore five feet in width was opened which gave an average assay as-say of 325.50 ounces in silver and 1.1 per cent lead. The ore Is some of the richest ever discovered in the state. Killarney has been in ore since the last. of June when it opened a bedding which has been followed one hundred feet entirely in low grade with many bunches of extremely ex-tremely high grade, some of the bunches running as high as a thousand thous-and ounces in silver. Since the first strike work has been confined to blocking out the bedding and development has been carried on from three faces, two of which have been on the strike of the ore body. The present rich strike was expected ex-pected by the engineers although they had no idea the assays would run so high. The point of the strike is sixty feet below an old stope which produced fifty-five thousand dollars and this old stope in turn is a hundred feet below a larger stope which produced over two hundred thousand dollars. Reports from the mine last night were that the ore still continued at about the same width and about the same value with the vein turning to the east and dipping at an angle of thirty-five degrees. Killarney is but a mile from the present workings of the Late Senator Sena-tor Clarkls Ophir Hill mine which has already produced 36 million and is in the same system of fis-suring fis-suring and beddings. A part of the Clark property adjoins the Killarney Kil-larney claims. Justice J. W. Cherry, of the Supreme Su-preme Court of Utah, is president of the company and Justice D. N. Straup, of the Supreme Court, is a director, L. G. Burton is a director and consulting engineer and A. B. Gatrell is on the engineer's staff. The property was financed by La Coste and Company, Boston Building, Salt Lake. At their offices of-fices it was stated that ore shipments ship-ments would probably begin during dur-ing September and it was believed that Killarney would be a permanent perma-nent shipper. Ophir has had in the past the richest ore of any district in Utah. Strikes were made in the Mona and Hidden Treasure of ore running as high as five thousand ounces to the ton. Both of these properties lie close to Killarney as does a large estate now being developed by the Chrysler Automobile interests. |