Show The Hale Norcross 8000Lerel The faces of the south and west drifts from the deep winze on the 3100level of the Hale Norcross mine are still in ore I The face of the west drift shows a marked I improvement Saturday the assays giving an average value of 100 per ton The average assay value of the ore in the face of the south drift of 95 The west drift is now out 32 feet from the station which gives the vein between the two I drifts a width of over 100 feet But the most interesting feature is the cutting of I cuting oro in the west drift from the station on sttion the 3100 level of the Combination shaft shaf which occurred yesterday The drift has drft just penetrated the eastern edge of the rein and this morning the average assay value of the ore in the face was 2485 per ton in the proportion of onethird gold and twothirds silver The west drift from the Combination is Combinaton over 200 feet south of the face of the south drift from the deep winzo station which therefore gives the ore body that length A drift has been started north from the west drift in the Combination to meet the south drift now coming from the winze The situation this morning looks more promising than at any time since the vein was cut on the 3000 level and the local management concur in Mr Borlands opinion H that she is a bird A south lateral drift will be started into I the Chronicle Chollar 15th ground tomorrow Virginia I I |