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Show SILVER REEF MINING MATTERS. The Hljrh Rates of Mllllnjr-The Old Leeds Tnrnlngr Out Well. McCornick & Co., received $2,690 worth of Stormont refined silver, this week. The Stormont and Christy mines and mill are all working smoothly, with favorable fav-orable results. Ed. Lockney, of the East Reef Bonanza, Bonan-za, has temporarilv suspended operations, opera-tions, discharged his shift boss, Mr Smith, and gone to Frisco to become a wage worker. His property is a good one, the ore averaging forty ounces, but he cannot work it to profit until the mills meet miners half way, and reduce ore at a rate that will leave a reasonable margin mar-gin for the mine owner. The situation must shape itself thus before the Reef can hope for prolonged prosperity, for it stands to reason that miners will not work for glory and go without grub. Kimple & Lewis, the lessees of the Leeds, while their work so far has been directed toward prospecting and opening up the mine, have several hundred tons of ore on the dump and broken in the workings ready for hoisting. They have within the past five months, by the "application "ap-plication of good judgment and hard work, developed a big mine out of property prop-erty that was abandoned several years ago by a poor management, as worthless. Judging from the ore bodies in sight and the appearance of the ledges and formation, forma-tion, we can safely say that between forty-five and fifty tons of ore per dav can be extracted for months to come. The ore body in the ledge, at a point about eighty feet "below the old tunnel, is fifteen feet in width, and at another, two hundred hund-red feet below this, twelve feet wide. The ore in these ledges assay from fifteen to thirty ounces per ton. A few weeks ago, the feather edge of a vein of ore was discovered in the floor of an old stope, which, on prospecting, opened up to eighteen inches of sixty-ounce ore. |