Show STRIKE IN THE JESSE EWING vernal express perhaps the most important strike that has ever been made in this section of the country was made a little over a week ago in the old jesse ewing tunnel about 1000 feet into and feet from the top of the hill this makes it the very deepest mine in uintah county some time ago an account of the discovery in the jesse jess e ewing tunnel of a vein of quartz containing pyrites of iron was published in the columns of the express A test of the material unearthed at that time proved it to contain no values the work on the tunnel was abandoned for a time but just before leaving the district henry A woodruff having been directed by mr hacking put in a few days work in the various drifts in the old workings As it happened the last shot broke through the pyrites and unearthed a fourteen inch vein of what appears to be red oxide of copper and beside it a large body of copper glance the size of which is not yet known the discovery was followed no further than to clean the up ore th loosened by the ane one shot waa the copper glance has the same appear anna ance as the high grade ore that was fl ered at the of the top hill by jesse ewin by him followed between fifty and sixty f 06 where a fault was encountered and the lead I 1 was lost it was to find the lead below S the fault that a tunnel costing over e 30 was 3 run years ago and an abandond abando abandonment nr abent of the work was cau caused S ed by the death of jesse jess ewing for that reason the findan finding g of 8 high grade ore in such deep working is al ai most an assurance that a permanent anent mine has hag been opened which fact is proven by the new vein cutting the formation squarely arid and bein found in place between well defined walls there are several interesting 11 circumstances connected with this disco discovery veryl one of which is that the original owners worked the tunnel to within a few feet of the rich ore and that lyon and weber who sold the mine to its present owner quit work at one place within six inches of it another curious fact is that the vein cropped up from below and had the top of it been a few inches lower the tunnel would have passed over the top of it mr woodruff discovered it the very last half hour that he put in for mr hacking 11 he has left the district for good as he will leave for alberta canada canarain Can adain in a few days the present owners are Aless rs james hacking lycurgus johnson and county clerk peter hanson they will have the ore tested in a few days to ascertain whether it contains any values in gold and silver there is no doubt that it is rich in copper |