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Show lorpd within a few feet and then the 1 crossout twill proceed to the main lode, which at ihr fifth level lies If) foot from the new or foot wall lode and nt ihe sixth level lies 197 feet away. The workings throughout maintain the usual appearance that characterizes character-izes the Lake openings. ALCOMAH ORE A LAKE SENSATION Unusual Formation Is Turned to Light In Newest Michigan Camp. The Lake country has a new sensation sensa-tion In tiio Alcomah propertj, one of the oldest yet heretofore ncprWted portions of that country. By means of an open cut an extremely rich deposit depos-it has been exposed, consisting of forma of the red roetal very unusual for that mlnlni; region, the rock belns Etilphlde. eillcato and carbonate. The A'gomah may alter Its r.re character wflh depth, but Lake operators belle o that this may be an exception to the wbole district In providing 1 sufficient sulphides of copper to make their treatment commercially possible. There Is a very Interesting ncconnt of several Lake properties In which Utah Investors are stockholders In the last -illtlon of Copper, the Gay and Sturgl publication of Houcbton, Mich-Ipau. Mich-Ipau. The following are extracts from tho review, dated May 21: Lake. Lake continue to operate eleven drills, which In practii.lly the limit of the air comprcssoi capacity. No work Is In progress al the first level. , At the second level one drill Is working lu tho raise that started 2P0 feet north of the shaft and has been pushed through to surface for ventll-latlon. ventll-latlon. Thf total distance to surface Is about 2S0 foet and the drill holed through to daylight Thursday. At tbe third level thr drills are working work-ing one drifting nouth, one raising lu the rock dumping shoot just north of the shaft and one raising In a ventilation ven-tilation opening that was started 340 feet north of the shaft and will hole through 10 the second level shortly. Al the fourth level two drills are working, one In the rock dumping chute jusl north of the shaft and the other drifting north, Tho latter has Jun bepun at that point, having been transferred from the cutting of a frump T)ar he shaft which was necessary t.. catch Ihe watPr that wag running diwn 10 the deeper levels. At the ffth level one drill Is drifting south and one north. AH of the foregoing Crllls are on the main Iake lode. At the slxlh one drill is drifting north on the new or foot wall lode and one 1r tlrirting south on the main Lake lode. In the shaft one drill Is sinking, nii'l it la expect fd that the shaft this month will be bottomed at the depth where the station for the seventh level lev-el will be cut, ro that station cutting ran begin early in June. The shaft K now In the foot wull of tho new lode, so that when cross-cutting be-Slus be-Slus this lode will first he encoun- |