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wUAW (vv; v**vv-v. — \r .: 4 ,;‘4 * :Ainsworth Mining News,*• * ■ -»*- . * v * • • * • : i ’The Side Line, a claim owned by Mrs:Gr. B. Wright, adjoining the Mile Point, has developed a fine - shoot of ^ clean ore.The vein is oyer eight feet in- width.' A ; the' surface there showed but a few specks of galena, in the quartz, at a depth of ten feet there is two and a half feet of clean ore, and about twelve tons have: been taken ■ out* in sinking the twelve feet. The Highlander drift is still in ore and 36 feetv has been driven the past week. . The average width of clean ore is three and a half feet, and assays go 54 ounces silver and 82 per cent lead. The lower tunnel, 1200 feet depth, in the Highlander is still drifting in ore, ^hich continues the full width of the tunnel. In the tunnel above this same shoot was over 400 feet. long. D.P. Strobeck has taken the contract to run the tunnel on the Albion, and has just completed a trail to the mouth of the tunnel. This will, be worth a great deal to the mine, and it has been hard | I to approach before. He |ms cleaned out the old tunnel, and is now ready to start live work. The Albion adjoins the Highlander lt;
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Nelson Tribune
Nelson, British Columbia, CA
Fri, Oct 25, 1901
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