Show BIG COTTONWOOD I SOUTH FORK ACTIVE Rexall Rexal Nearing Interesting Ore Zone Other Adjacent Properties Having attained a I point between ZOO 8 and an 99 feet leet fet from front the portal of IU Ita it tunnel and with wih but 26 21 feet more driving ing ahead before teore this great tunnel should cut the objective vein vain the Rex Ilex Rexall ex exal all al property pro pert In South fork of Big Cot Cottonwood Ct Cottonwood Is right now In a I decidedly decided interesting physical state stata of develop development went ment ment according to P F T Roberts Roberta Robert of Roberts Roberta Robert Heist Helit Heit civil civi and mining en engineers engineers who has hag ha lately late returned from froman trman an Inspection of the property bearing the Vein riD ein Judging from front prospecting above aboe which has ha given us the dip of the out outcropping outcropping cropping vein we estimate that in 25 5 feet further progress in the tunnel we should strike the vein vain we are making for said Mr Roberts yesterday Ve We e have been driving through a aver very com eom compact pact pct Quartzite but for some distance now this has been softening with wih tale talc tlc seams ams showing and Ind then a a indication that Interesting de do developments deI I are close at hand This Thin will wi give us a vertical depth of feet fet from froni the collar colar of the old shaft shaf The vein we e are art after was pros prospected pro years yearn ago by a vertical shaft shafton on the tie fissure from which It IK is I claimed a bunch of ore was shipped in early erly days probably in the SOS This shaft is partially caved In now and I have been unable to Inspect It I Work rk Alt All 1 Winter I 1 expect to go up to the property tn n about three weeks when the vein should be cut About a foot toot progress is 18 being made a day da In the tunnel Fifty nine feet of the contract have been driven Iriven If I things look good then than the chancy chance are we will wi send out a drift drifton on the vein The property will wl probably probably ably abl be worked all al winter and sup being sent In to that end Old Jaek Ore OreIn Ore OreIn In going down the canyon canon from some of the other old workings on the Rex Rexall Rexall all al Mr lr Roberts found where a sack of or orore ore had evidently slipped from a con conveyance and rolled down the steep side into the gulley guie The sack was old and rotted but a little pile Pie of ore running high In copper and silver values told the story stor This ore had undoubtedly come from one of the theother theother theother other old shafts on the property up the hill Extension hl The Rexall Rexal adjoins the Columbus Cardiff Shipping The Cardiff is still working a a a force torce of men meR and keeping up Its It regular ore shipments to the smelters It has been ben employing five fhe or six ore teams teal all aU summer It 1 is understood this prop property property erty arty will wil continue shipments until stopped by b bad bd weather and then than it i will wi work the property all al winter and tore store the ore Kennebec Baby flaby Carbonate The Kennebec Is still sti employing a few men The present work is il a adrift adrift drift from the tunnel for the ore body Baby McKee Is still working and pro producing ore It Is Is s reported this property recently got Into quite Quie a big body of Qt good shipping ore are tre The Carbonate shut down some time ago It I put up an expensive tramway got at a big deposit of ore but it i did not prove quite Quie high enough grade gade to cover the expense of mining hauling and smelting so the mine closed down temporarily It I is under understood understood 1100 stood this ore are ran about 5 to the ton |