Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-02-06 | Page 17 | Superior Shaft is Cut by Tunnel

SUPERIOR SHAFT IS CUT BY TUNNEl Drainage Bore Cut Four Ore Shoots on the Way Ready for Mill From the mine of the Nevada Superior Mines lines company in Humbold county Nevada came word to Secretary John W Geiger yesterday that connection had been made between the drain tunnel and the shaft The tunnel is 2200 oro feet long and andt It t cuts the shaft at the depth of feet Connection with the old workings had hadeen been een previously made by raising to the level But Bt connecting with the shaft drains the time old mine 50 feet teet deeper and takes tak 8 the tunnel further on the way to o the best ore bodies of all Which are believed to lie He several hundred feet fur lur further lurther further ther in the hill bill The tunnel now discharges a steady flow of water ample for the needs of at the large concentrating mill which the company plans to build at the mouth of the tunnel While the main purpose of driving the tha thelong thelong long ong tunnel was to drain the time old work worl Ings where bodies of milling ore ire have been opened to the depth of feet it has exposed a great deal of new ore are The tunnel was driven on the I veIn ein 1500 feet and In that distance it cut four our ore shoots varying from CO GO feet to SO 80 feet in length and from five to 22 feet in width with values running from 15 per percent percent percent cent to 50 per cent lead and from 12 ounces to o 45 ounces in silver Continued south from the shaft the tun tunnel tunnel tunnel nel will gain depth It is the In Intention to drive it as quickly as possible at least far enough in that direction to get under the No 2 tunnel which has opened open d an excellent ore showing near the th surface The drain tunnel will there at aln tain tam a depth of ot feet teet from the surface The same strong fissure extends on southerly through the property of the An elope Springs Mining company compan where there are ire being mined large bodies o ot relatively ore The ore bodies opened on the he fissure all show marked improvement with depth