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Show Tellurlde Colorado Republican. The trike that was made in the Sheridan Sher-idan tunnel on the evening of Tuesday will be heralded to the world long before this paper reaches Us destination, and will turn the eyes of party owning properties prop-erties in this district with more satisfaction satisfac-tion to it. By making the strike the prosperity of the Sheridan mine, which is known in mining circles over the greater part of this universe, is assured. This great tunnel scheme was put through in order to tap the vein at a greater depth and to get it in shape for a greater production on a more economical econom-ical scale. After pretty near three years of suspense and the expenditure of not less than J750.OO0 the miners )n the tunnel tun-nel fired, the shot Tuesday evening which opened up a body of gray copper, brittle and ruby silver of no less than three feet in width, and the ore found at that depth is fully as- good as the ore from the higher levels which made it possible pos-sible for Nicholas & Fisher to undertake this stupendous scheme. The tunnel struck the vein when in about 8,750 feet, and 000 feet below the surface level. There Is, about 800 feet to go from the present shaft which has been driven to connect with the tunnel and the level, and is being worked both ways. They will come together by the" first of December Decem-ber or earlier and will then have a body of high grade mineral which.it is estimated esti-mated will take 8,000 men fifteen years to work out, or In dollars and cents, approximated from what the mine has produced there is fully $15,000,000 in sight at the present time. After the connection con-nection is made with the shaft a car-tramway car-tramway will be put In and all the ore will betaken from the mine to mill down an encline tramway of probably one and one-half miles in length, the loaded cars down pulling up the empties, thus making mak-ing a much cheaper way of getting down the ores and faster as well. |