Show iOFfMANYS FAST WORK Tunnel Driven 320 Feet in 35 Days ON INDIANAPOLIS GROUND Ho and His Mon Made Over Three Foot Each Shift They Are After f Vein Nearly Five Hundred Feet Wide and 700 Feet in the Hill Ed Hoffman sunerlntendent oC the Indianapolis Mining companys property prop-erty In the Erickson mining district has accomplished one of the most rc jnarlcable feats In this State driving a tunnel 320 feet In thirtyfive days and timbering the entire distance The formation for-mation is of course favorable to the work breaking cleanly and evenly or no amount of labor and equipment would have made the achievement possible pos-sible In many parts of the State five feet per day is considered rapid progress pro-gress ant a miner who proposed to make over nine feet every twentyfour hours or three feet per shift would be regarded as an exhaler of superheated atmosphere The Indianapolis tunnel Is being run to reach an Immense Vein measuring 196 feet from v all to wall This huge deposit will be reached In 700 and some odd feet from the mouth of the bore In driving toward It Superintendent Superin-tendent Hoffman has crossed several small fissure and gush veins assaying1 well In copper and lead and currying some silver It Is noted that as depth Is gained the tendency Is for the lead to replace the copper Mr Hoffman will go back to the property next Monday |