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Show ORE BODIES eME AS DRIFTING PROGRESSES The ore bodies opened recently in the long tunnel of the Montaoa-Blng-ham Consolidated Mining company's property , continue w Improve a& the drifting progresses, according to reports re-ports received at the Salt Lake office this week. More than 250 tons C or is being stored until the market for the metal reaches a bigher'polat than the present one. Plans are being formulated by the company to continue con-tinue the driving of the tunnel some 700 feet farther, and It la expected that this work will he started In the near fat&rev . , J Lessees Parr and Furlin encountered the ore in frtf ting on a fissure- which had been cut by the crosscut tunnel at a point aboct 450 feet from the present pres-ent breast. This fissure runs practically practi-cally northeast and southwest ' The southwest frift has been opened Hp for a distance of eighty feet, the breast of which ts in solid ore that seems to b following 1 the hanging j wall. It 13 between three and one-half feet and four feet in width and Is of ' shipping gratfe. Taking Into consider-attooj consider-attooj the dip of( the vein, the present breast has a depth of about 2,000 leet. The northeast drift has been driven in a distance of thirty feet and baa about three feet of ore of a much highar grade. The same lessees are operating on the Bingham New Haven property and shfpping considerable ore which is returning them a net.pr fit of aftout $1,500 per month. They say that they are in no hurry ot ship the' ore at the present market prlce.4 for the metals. The objective iwint of the main cun-nel cun-nel Is the Conger vein, at which point the'awapany tspects to encounter ton.-siderable ton.-siderable ore. This will be reached in about "00 feet of further crosscutting, and when the work is resumed it wir. iia ri' shed to completion as rapidly as possible. ' |