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Show II To Tap Mil 1 of ikjll's Well !H Xong Drive to Its Rich Ores to Be IMj Inaugurated at Onco by the Kj Utah Copper Company. H To connect with the much-coveted AU'h Ml Well ledge which cuts, obliquely, across nj Its domnius at Bingham and to draw up- H on the wealth which awaits It there, the Hj management of the Utah Copper com-pany com-pany will begin sinking and driving at HI once. This was decided on by tho offl- Ul ciaJs of the company yesterday at which HI time tho recommendation made them by KJ Manager D. C. Jackllng-, after exhaustive H Inquiry Tnto tho ground, was unanlmous- H ly concurred In- Meanwhile his col- WM leagues had made personal examination mn and that connection with the ledge In Wn question shall bo mtulo to add almost HJ Immcasureably to tho company's rc- sources thcro Is no shadow of doubt This, WWt Indeed, has been conclusively demon. mm strated through tho workings of the Ohio B Copper company, by which tho All's Well H ledge haH been followed, practically, up jfu to tho Utah Copper company's end-line jti and to tap a source of tremendous rove- I nuo It Is but necessary to drlvo to It. 1 On the .TOMoot level In the Ohio the ldgo has expanded to a width of twenty- Hf five feot with a streak on the foot wall D1 that affords ns much as 50 per cent cop- I' per, whllo tho six feet overlying It yields ml as much as 17 per cent, tho next six feet 11 10 per cent and so on down to 2 per j cent. Tho shaft, which will be sunk that II a second heading from which to drift H may be established, will be put down on f the cast side of tho canyon. To connect til 'with tho ledge from this It will bo ncc- Bf eepary, said Manager Jackllng, to drlvo I J 7C0 feet, the oro body to bo tapped at a ll depth of SCO feet. Meanwhile a drift will II be extended to or connection with the If new shaft from the main workings on the n west, a distance of 700 feet and when an 1 outlet via tho main workings shall have l been thus established the shaft will bo J made to serve for air. ( President MacNeill and Treasurer Pen- jl roso left for Colorado Springs yesterday If much pleased with the result of their II observations and convinced of the merits 1 cf their stupendous undertaking at Blng- f ham The mill Is now reducing 600 tons tli of copper, gold and silver-bearing oro fi dally and may run the total to 20,000 tons If the present month. |