Show OREGON sumpter american otto simons who is working on a tunnel contract at the ophir mine was in town tuesday and wednesday he reports the work progressing rapidly and will be completed in a week the tunnel is a new crosscut that is being driven to open the vein system about feet deeper than the present workings the new tunnel cut a ledge that was not known to be in the property soon after it was started the ledge is between seven and eight feet wide and looks quite promising for developing being opened but a few feet under ground it will take further development to prove its value |