Show COPPER BOY TUNNEL Company Will Drive Ahead Operating Operat-ing the Erie Under an Option The Bulletin reviewing the week at Bingham says Having demonstrated to a practical certainty that It has low grade ores in quantity sufficient to warrant the Installment of a conccn Irallng plant whenever deemed advisable advis-able the Copper Boy company has decided de-cided to drive Us main tunnel ahead this winter 1 to cut the several eaSt undwost contact veins that have been uncovered and traced at surface DriftIng Drift-Ing will also be pushed on one or more of the northandKOUlh fissures and conlacts as they are encountered so that throughout the mine a considerable force will be kept busy Supplies of all kinds sufficient to last until Mayor May-or June are being put In also nil machinery ma-chinery and tools needed will be delivered de-livered antI housed before the roads break up John W Cairns and partners havIng hav-ing obtained a bond and lease on the Erie claim have just let a contract to drift 100 feet on a crossfissure starting start-ing from the Mystic Shrine tunnel at a point 100 feet In The drift at 125 feet is expected to cut the BIle lissome from which near the surface several years ago leasers made a number of shipments ship-ments of good pay ores ore-s the Tampa smeller will not be ready lo receive ore for possibly two months and the Yamyn and Boston Con mines are awaiting facilities for tilling their contracts with the Blng ham Con smelter Copper Belt con slrticllon work has within a few days been concentrated on the upper extension exten-sion und by the 1 end of the month the mines should be connected by rail With the lllo Grande Western track As soon as the connection is made Blnghnm will Increase its output 250 to 300 tons a day Tracklaylng has bczun on the upper extension and probably little will be clone on the lower extension before November No-vember |