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Show SENSATIONAL FIND IN BEAVER COUNTY Coming with all the glamour of a fairy tnle, in the story of success of two leaders on a diminutive fractional fraction-al claim of nine to ten acres located down In Heaver county. The best thing about this story is that it is true in every particular. Alout two months ago two Salt I-'ike men, George Gould and C. Bal-llnger. Bal-llnger. took an IS months' lease on a fraction kite shaped claim wedged in between the King David's mammoth mam-moth territory aud that of the Peacock Pea-cock Copper Consolidated Mining company. The property is owned by L. P. Block, president and general manager of the Peacock company. Tho fraction property belonged to the King David ground, but In surveying sur-veying this fractional claim was considered con-sidered so unimportant that the engineers en-gineers were Instructed to leave it off. When this came to Mr. Blocks attention he located It Just to keep out Interlopers. While going over the fraction this summer Mr. Block ran onto an inconspicuous in-conspicuous little mound of rock. Picking up a piece he was startled hyy its weight. Cracking It open with hl prospecting pick, there sparkled forth rich galena. Tho whole mound was of the same stuff, all gray and weather marked from exposure to the elements for perhaps 15 or 20 years. He searched the surface near this old mound, which stood beside a scrub tue, but his efforts were unrewarded. unreward-ed. About two months ago Block told George Gould, a green miner, who was eugaged to do the annual assessment as-sessment work, of his discovery, and he and Balllnger decided to lease the tract and hunt for tho vein from which this mound of ore had been taken. They worked and prospected, prospect-ed, and when discouraged and about to give it up In disgust, Mr. Block again appeared on the ground and Instructed them to put down a hole near tho scrub tree and not far from the contact between the porphyry and the limestone, A Lucky Pick. Tho first pick broke Into a bed of glittering galena. Within a few days they had on the dump a small car load of ore and about two weeks ago shipped it to the American Smelter nt Salt T,akv It brought $950. Word from there this week is that the boys have another car load ready, which will be shipped today or tomorrow. This will run aUut $r,o to the ton Tho pit from which all this, rich ore has been extracted is not over 12 feet deep and about 10x14 feet on the surface. sur-face. That will be over $3,000 out of this surface pit, and the bottom of the pit is a mass of ore. In addition, addi-tion, there Is a mound of 20 tons or nioro of ore on the dump which is worth $20 to tho ton. An analysis of the ore shows it Is strong In sliver sli-ver and lead, with 2 to 3 per cent copper. This copper content gives rise to the Idea that this may he a permanent body, or overflow from the fissure contact between the lime and the porphyry, this ore having made off into the lime. |