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Show i . . SEARCHLIGHT HAS HIGH-GRADE STRIKE I Opening $100 Ore In I X L Lease Is Encouraging Other Operators Operators In Searchlight district i are deriving encouragement from a I strike of high grade ore that has just ' been made in the Smith & Fessler j lenso on the I X L property. On the KJo-foot level of their workings i the leasers have cut Into five Inches of ore, It s said, which averages $100 a ton. j The rich ore was found about 2.1 feet from the shaft. In a crosscut. A little further, at the face of the crosscut, cross-cut, is a small body of $30 ore. with indications thnt additional work will open something better In that direction. direc-tion. Tho shaft of the lease is almost at the apex of Duplex hill At the Inn-foot Inn-foot level a crosscut encounteied 2" feet from the shaft a good quantity of ore which, sent to the mill, returned re-turned S0 a ton on the plates. The new strike Is directly below that ore, showing that the values increase with depth. The leasers believe thnt they have the main fissure of the hill, nn opinion that Is held as well by two experts who have recently examined the property. The vein outcrops In manv places along the ridpe of the hill and It c?n be traced for a long distance. dis-tance. Both hanglngwall and footwall are well defined In the Smith & Fessler Fess-ler workings, a condition which has not obtained elsewhere In D'iplex hill. |