Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-01-21 | Page 14 | Highland Boy Product

tilGHLAND BOY PRODUCT A Great Weeks Run at the Companys Smelter GRATIFYING FROM THE MINE 2To 7 Tunnel is Still Penetrating the Oro Body Without Coming to the Hanging Wall Report of tho Weeks Mineral Shipments Manager Man-ager Mclntyros Report from tho Mammoth Promising Develop I ments nt stocktonFormer Holders Hold-ers of Dixie Option Have Regrets The Highland Boy of Blngham closed the week with the production of nearly OOOOO pounds of copper and the smelter smelt-er running on a little over 200 tons of ore dailY This Is not as gratifying however as arc developments at the mine where tho No 7 tunnel Is still penetrating the ore body without a sign of hanging wall How far It haa now cut Its way into the ore body could not be ascertained Some say it Is approximating 200 feet It sounds big but there Is nothing Incredible about It On the No C the tunnel was driven Into tho ore body 198 feet before any intimation of the second wall was had There the metallic contents of the ore began to diminish but It was not until the peg was driven at 203 feet that the real wall was encountered Thero is I nothing to Indicate that the ore body Is any less below und with the present showing the proposition becomes one of the most remarkable on earth What will be found at lower 16vels I on the monster chute of ore Is a most Interesting Inter-esting query Superintendent Channing came In from camp yest rday for church but of the mine and fts performances his Ips are scaled