| Show MINERAL VEINS AND OTHER ALTA MINES COMING TO THE FRONT WITH GOOD NEWS A few d days ays ago manager 0 A jacobson of the mineral veins coalition mines companas Comp anys properties in the little cottonwood alta district announced a strike at a point about feet from the portal to fo the wasatch tunnel that promises to develop into something of real importance ito the mine and the district the disclosure was made in south crosscut no 3 from the tunnel level bevel and when the report was released the ore body had been penetrated for only ten feet but all in a high hig h grade lead silver sulphide ore last advices advises from the mine are said to indicate that the new will prove a most important one in that it is proving the contention that thai it comprises the deep extension of the ore body in what is designated th the e silver vein which proved so rich and productive in the old workings of the columbus consolidated ground now a portion 0 of f the present companas comp anys extensive holdings in the camp of alta the character of the ore in the new strike manager jacobson declares is so nearly identical with the ore mined in the columbus consolidated that it is felt certain that the downward extension of the famous old ore shoot has at last bee been n level hundreds of feet below located on the drain tunnel the old columbus con s deepest workings samples of the new ore which were assayed soon after the discovery gave returns of 25 to 30 per cent lead 25 to 35 ounces silver 2 per cent copper and 80 cents in gold in a newspaper interview manger manager jacobson was qu quoted doted as follows while development of the new strike is being continued steadily the company is also d riving driving to the northeast along the same fissure to prospect t for the downward which in the 0 old id columbus body extension of the copper ore of large tonnage e of excellent consolidated was productive a ore fifteen hundred feet west from the new st strike rike lessels lessees lessee daily 0 of f ore from five tons of twenty are mining an average above distance the braine fissure at points in in raises a short from this ore the drain tunnel level net smelter returns the ne run on 35 ton drifts are being 12 are running about a level tunnel th the e dram drain bodies on fissure to open up tip these ore cottonwoods alta from th e other stimulating news been of fine or ore e has n feet section is to the effect that four territory ern opened up in the alta tunnel transportation that th ta e michigan that the cardiff is opening up new ore rations are utah is also looking mighty good while of the prepa alta buerge clerger round sells ground under way to bring the company into production through a lease woods couns n thus it begins to look a as though the place cotton feht in in tile the fi spotlight spot lint ht its right to a assert try was about to again |
