Show CARDIFF STIR PUSHING TUNNEL Excellent conditions nt at the Cardiff mine In lug Big Cottonwood are reported by Director Gus Reamer who returned yesterday from an ami inspection lie says sas time the lower tunnel Is In foot feet with a vertical depth now of about COO feet The Tho face is- is still In the lime but time the Indications are that time the contact Is right at hand Tho limo Is hard Ilard but shows sonic some fractures anti and changing conditions Aim Any day now It ItIs itIs Is expected to reach time the contact with limo tho This Is time the same contact con tact which has imas produced ore oro In imm other parts of the property rime Tho present face la is about GOO feet away from time the known ore bodies In tho tue upper level but tho tito expectation is to flail find ore oro much nearer than timan that and possibly where time the contact is reached This lower tunnel will bo be about feet under time the upper affording at least SOO feet of backs besides fa facilitating fa operations by a large rich territory which has hardly been touched In time tho upper levels Two shifts of men are arc now working In inthe the lower tunnel but Manager Thompson said yesterday that a third shift will bo be put on the first of tIme tho car j-car when the work will be rushed At present the men are arc averaging about a foot and a half a day teaming outfits are aro kept busy hauling time tho ore down the tho canyon They The went up Friday and will vill bo down to to- to day They bring down five tons each or fifteen tons to the tho trip This ore Is coming from tho south drift about eighty feet above the collar of time tho This vein has been followed south feet It varies from ono one to four feet in width Tho rho last settle ettIe- settlement mont ment showed the tho oro averaging 52 a a. ton toll |