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Show parent veins like huge branches and 1c?vpb from the parent, tree trunk. The possibilities of the ground may be guessed when It Is known that ono walks on the downward continuation of these ore bodies in travertins the tunnels, and that the face of the Silver IUU tunnel exoses the continuation of the ore body, which at this point fhows an average width of five feet nnd an average value for this width of 110 ouuees to the ton in silver. An extensive merles of assay from tho floor and . faces or the tunnels disclose dis-close extensive shipping bodies, with average values ranging from 50 to 500 ounces In silver, In addition to small rallies In copper, lead and gold. Picked Pick-ed samples from the vein assay as high as 3 1-2 per cent copper, 1 per cent lead, $36 in gold and 2,800 ounces to the ton In silver. Basing its judgment upon these reports re-ports and assays the company confidently confi-dently expects soon to be able to Like from the two tunnels approximately approxi-mately $2,500 In values per week. What the disclosure of so much ore In the tunnels means may be judged from the fact that they are all above the 200-foot level and 1.200 feet of virgin vir-gin ground still lios tfhead of the tunnels tun-nels to match against the 800 feet already al-ready explored. Seven hundred feet ahead of the Borland stope a great ore outcropping was recently discovered, discov-ered, fully fifteen feet wide. In the dumps at the mine fully $50,000 in profits have been figured. Contracts for drifting have been let and tools, cars, sacks, etc., have been ordered. The ore-bearing formation consists In a belt of lime several hundred feet wide between granite and quartzlte. !n this zone occurs several well defined de-fined characters of lime, shot up with iron and basalt fissures. MINING NEWS UTAH TALENT AFTER SILVER Famous Old Ryepatch Mines Form Basis of Local Corporation The organization of- the Ryepatch Consolidated Mining company, which Involves the resurrection of one of Ne-radr's Ne-radr's greatest silver mines, has just been consumateel In Salt Lake city, following discoveries of a startling nature na-ture that have just come to light in the' old Ryepatch mine workings, . fbout fifty miles from the Seven . Troughs district In Humboldt county, Nevada. The Byepatch mines, induing indu-ing tho SilverBcll and the Alpha, which have produced in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of $14,000,000 in values, and which were tied up in hopeless lit i-S'otlon i-S'otlon prior to 1S73. have been found by C. D. Ray and associates to still contain evidences of wealth that promise prom-ise to completely eclipse all the for-Mer for-Mer glory of theso famous properties. Following a quiet Investigation cov. erlng the old mine workings, the surrounding sur-rounding grounds, Humboldt county records and deeds and titles In San Francisco and lasting for more, than eight months, Mr." Ray has effected the purchase of both the famous old producers and much surrounding territory, ter-ritory, and the organization of a company, com-pany, which began taking out ore several sev-eral days ai;o, and it can be safely predicted that operations and dlsclos-urer dlsclos-urer are involved of greater importance import-ance than anything that has come to light in Nevada in recent years. The officers and directors of the company are C. D. Ray, president; lames II. Linford of Logan, vice-president; S A. Greenwood of Salt Lake, pecretary; Weston Vernon of Logan, director; J. E. Ray of Salt Lake, director. di-rector. The company is capitalized at 1.000.000 shares at a par value of cents a sare. Most sanguine predictions as to Ihe issue of the new ontorprlso are based Lpon a series of careful examinations and assays covering the last six rronthp and culminating in an examination exam-ination and report just made by Professor Pro-fessor Bowen, geologist and chemist at tho B. Y. college at Logan. These examinations and reports show that the colossal product of these two properties, prop-erties, which is attested by the Humboldt Hum-boldt county bullion tax records, same entirely from above the tunnels, which ntrain a total depth at the deepest point of only '200 foc-L In this surface ground there have been opened up by twenty-five enormous stopes, pome large enough, it Is said, to contain an average building block, and one in particular, the Borland stope. from which upwards of $2,000,000 In values was extracted In ninety days In the early seventies. These stopes rep re-tent re-tent a bewildering displacement of ore chambers, formed by the displacement displace-ment of the lime, ramifying from the |