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Show f GREAT FIND MADE IN PIOCHE GROUND General Manager Murray C. Godbe ccufirmed the report on Tuesday that the Centennial Pioche company had encountered water and ore In the lime at a depth of 510 feet In the shatt, which necessitates the Insiatlatiou of more powerful hoisting equipment and water handling machinery. Mr. Godbe further stated that the equipment had teen purchased yesterday; that It would be shipped to Pioche today, ar-r.ving ar-r.ving Monday. Inasmuch as word to the aboe effect was not received until Tuesday morning, this quick work on the part of the company is directly In line with i's avowed Intention ex pressed a short time ago to go after the Centennial resource without gioves. and In the most approved workmanlike work-manlike manner. The new equipment couULs of a 50-borsepower 50-borsepower hoist, new cage, a complete com-plete pumping plant and all auxiliaries, auxil-iaries, the equipment standing the company a tidy cash sum. Tho significance sig-nificance and importance of the discovery dis-covery made In the shaft are great t othose familiar with Pioche. The same geological conditions of tho camp are considerably higher In other sections. sec-tions. Mils being tho first time that ere in shale has been found within the permanent water level. Engineers have predicted in the past that such ore. when found, would be extremely rich, and the Centennial company is now on the verge of demonstrating :be truth of this prophecy. |