Salt Lake Herald | 1905-09-17 | Page 26 | Reaching the Ore Body

REACHING R ACHING THE ORE BODY Changes Taking Place PI in n Long Tun Tunnel nel n l at Great Great Western Uncle Jesse Knight was up from 9 with wih the te news that that a D tn lt talking taking place in the face of ot ott t tunnel in the time Great Western We property at the te head of Big Cotton Cottonwood coton Cottonwood wood od that Is 15 the equivalent of ot a strike When Mr M Knight bought the te control of ot the tIme shares shar from David D nId Evans a t few ew weeks week ago the te mammoth mamoth lime belt through which the tle tunnel was then ten passing showed copper in every eer fracture and ad crEse of the te rock rock The Time at which a change was looked for fol was being approached aCed and Mr Ev Er Evans Erens ans ens stated state on the day da of ot sale that he expected to hear of ot the big contact be being bI belag ing lag entered before long Mr Knight exhibited samples of or his rock yesterday esterday It I was 09 a black blak stud fled fied lime and nIl all al through it I were ware par particles tIdes tices and splashes of enough of ot the te metal apparently apparent to tomake tomake tomake make the rock assay asay from 3 to 5 6 per percent percent percent cent in the red metal Heretofore the has haa been confined to the fractures in the rock Now it appears all al through it and nd while Mr Knight I states that the vein or deposit has lisa not I yet ct been tapped he Is confident of ot hay hav having hn haying I ing important news in a very er short turn II