Show WILL DRIVE LONG TUNNEL special correspondence dixie ida sept 11 majestic gold and silver mining company operating at dixie idaho will drive a tunnel one and a half miles in length to tap its ven ve n at a depth of feet if the mill tests prove satisfactory the work will involve an expenditure of the company owns twenty nine claims twenty of which are on an immense porphyry dike 1800 feet wide the formation on the west side of the dike is quartzite while that on the east is granite the apex of the ledge has been crosscut for a width of 34 feet where the assays essays show in gold to the ton one claim in the granite formation has been developed with a tunnel of feet and a shaft thirty six feet deep in the shaft the average assay baue of the ore is CO 60 a ton on the full width of the shaft in the tunnel of the vidette claim an average sample of veins assays essays gave an average of several on the dike gave an average of 4 a ton in gold tunnel no I 1 has been drivon ninety feet and no 2 tunnel twenty two feet it is planned to drive this tunnel feet far ta trier er which will give a depth of from to feet |