OCR Text |
Show SHIPPING $450 ORE FROM ROCHESTER For the first time in its brief history his-tory Rochester experienced guards protecting a high grade shipment of ore, en route from the Raven lease, Lincoln Hill to Oreana. consigned to the Thompson smelter, says the Love locks Review-Miner. In operation only fifty day6. the lease has proven the most phenom enal producer of high grade in the camp. If not In the county, the shipments ship-ments being said to average $450 per ton. This estimate is taken from the assays of from $350 to $1000 per ton The ledge, its jagged ends protruding protrud-ing a foot above tho ground, where I It was hidden under a boulder, was uncovered by Tj. W. Harwood, Mo ritz Norden and Jack Flynn. Clusters of gold Impregnated the quartz from ' the surface. A shaft twenty-eight feet and a drift nine feet have proven the consistency of the vein together with its value. While the first shipment amtmntB to a little more than thirty tons, another consignment of 100 tons Is being sacked to be hauled as soon as the roads become more solid. After the teamsters had hauled the ore from the lease to the roadway Wednesday, the sudden thaw made A continuous trip to Oreana impossible, and the ore being of the picture variety, vari-ety, was allowed to remain neRr the roadway, guarded by three stalwart miners. |