Weekly journal-miner., 1915-05-19
UNITED EASTERN IS
 SCENE OF BIG STRIKE
By William P. DeWolf.

: ore assaying as high as several thou r sands of dollars per ton, and show, - ing considerable gold in the free, was entered the current week at depth of 565 feet in the United Eastern mine. The discovery is in all its as , poets the most valuable ever made in the mine as it demonstrates the pres , ence of a continuous body of pay ore
 from depth of 300 feet to a depth of 565 feet-the point of present operations.
 At the time of writing this dis patch the crosscut on the 565-foot level is out from the shaft distance
 of 135 feet and is in ore for length
 of 5 feet. How much of an ore lens
 lies beyond the present face of the cut is as yet conjcctural. It is, how ever, very evident the vein is fully as wide at this depth as where open ed on the 46O-foot level, and it is very probable it will show an even greater width between walls when completely intersected.
 Significance of Strike.
 In order that the true significance of the foregoing may be appreciated it is well to state that the United Eastern vein has a breadth of 41 feet on the 460-foot level and that it samples pay from the footwall to hanging wall. The crosscut on the 300-foot level shows vein width of 24 feet, with the apex of the ore about 100 feet above that point. These conditions prove that the shoot is widening with depth, and that it is to say the least consistently holding its gold values.
 Prior to tapping the vein on the 565-foot level there was estimated to be $1,5OOOOO worth of ore lying on and above the 450-foot level. Ii therefore appears probable the area of stoping ground above the 565-foot level contains at least $2000,0OO worth of gold bearing ore. An in teresting fact in connection with this very unusual ore showing is that the mine is of recent origin, having been nothing better than very promis ing prospect at the outset of the cur rent year. Since that time Long and McIver, the managing directors, have developed the prospect into mine destined in all probability to become the most valuable and most ! talked of gold producer in the South west, if not in the United States.
 Water Jacks Busy.
 The water jacks on the lower level arc hammcring the rock face and ribs of the crosscut with the precision and dexterity with which a sllillful boxer batters an opponent-resting between rounds of shots until the muck has been cleared away and then resumin gtheir merry tattoo and work of demolition. Every hole punched in the face of the crosScut discloses additional values and more completely demonstrates the right of the United Eastern to possession ot the gold belt of championship in the heavyweight mine division.
 All the way along the Tom Reeds huge ore zone, of which the United Eastern ore body is an integral part, mine development is being prosecut- ed OF an ever increasing scale and with an eve- increasing promise of financial success. In the Tom Reed main workings the shoot of high grade milling orc recently encount- cred in the west drift on the 1075- foot level is maintaining its gold content under the test of develop ment. The ore being broken there in continues to go direct to the mill from the mine and to add appreciably 10 the bullion shipments from the property, which have at present total value somewhat in excess of $100,000 per month A finch air pipe line has been laid from the Tom Reed main workings to the Black Eagle workings of the Tom Reed company and through its medium the work of developing ore in the south east extension of the Reeds ore zone will be greatly facilitated. The Black Eagle shaft is being lowered from a depth of 215 feet to depth of 300 feet with the object of test ing the vein and values at the depth last mentioned
 Ore Along Contact.
 To the northwest of the main workings the Reed management has opened ore along the contact in the Ola Oatman and the Red Cloud workings, Nearby, the United East crn people are proving up the ex tension of the Reed ore zone; and to the northwest of and adjoining tta ,tto- tho IT,;EoJ NKToe4orr ,,,ap