Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-01-14 | Page 8 | Big Nebo Tunnel Nears Great Vein

BG NEBO NERS GREAT VEIN Wi Will Tap Ore Channel in Which Eva Has Fine Show Showing Showing ing The crosscut tunnel which s being drIven by the Big Nebo Mining company tap the geat great Eva vein eln In which hand handsome handsome some showings ot of ore have ben been opened north and south ot of te the Big Nebo estate by the Union Chief and Eva companies respectively Is just getting Int into vein matter at feet from the portal according to Manager W D RW Raw Rawson son who was In the cf city yesterday esterday The mountain into which the tunnel Is beIng driven Is so steep that the depth from the surface at the face tace of the tunnel Is 3 teet feet The outcrop ot of the vein Is 10 feet wide at the surface and It shows a geat great deal of carbonate and galena ore are The preliminary survey Indicated that the tunnel would have to be driven 3 feet teet to catch the vein so that the appear appearance appearance ance at 2 feet of vein matter carrying lead and silver values Is taken a as pretty good assurance that ore disclosures of f more than ordinary Importance will soon be made The Big Nebo company owns gound ground covering 40 feet teet on the strike of the vein In which the Eva company adjoin ing on the south and higher up the moun mountainside mountainside has at 4 feet depth opened a bod body of shipping ore ble ot of It running as high as 70 ounces In silver and 60 per cent lead While the Eva has been making shipments for some sometime time I it Is handicapped by being corn com to pack Its ore down the mountain mountainside side aide on the backs of burrs burros I It wl will have to build a tramway before It can hope to mae make much of at a shipping record Has Good Wagon Road The Big Nebo company Is beter better si sit In Ia that regard I It ha has a fairly good wagon road from the urine mine to the railway station which Is only two mie miles away The Nebo district has a formation like that of Tintic the dolomite limestone In which the ore bodies are found being 1 even purer than the Tintic dolomite Mr r Rawson says Bays The great zone or of ore bearing limestone cut cuts through the en entIre entire tIre range and al all indications point to some of the big mines of the state being developed there Jesse Knight Knight John Roundy Walker brothers and others a are working zone promisIng properties on the Eva