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Show Massive Galenas in Bingham Centra! Interesting Condition Developed While Driving Whitley Tunnel Across the Country. From tho properties of tho Bingham Central Mining company, whose domains are among the most extensive In the great camp if copper. Manacer 1' ('. Jai kllng returned yesterday morning, bringing with him evidences of mineralisation minerali-sation thai fori teii the moai aubatantlal results from exploratory work now being be-ing prosecuted. Not only did he return with mineral, but with "re- in which was ro onlerl a nuUISlVS galena, enOTUStSd with a sulphide of iron containing copper percentages and gold values, and while this ore is. as vet. confined to intervale In the iinn some through which Whitley tunnel is being punoh d to connection with the main contact, the condition Is one that In less experienced hands might Justify somo excitement. This avenUO has now advanced In tho limestone a distance of li I feel and while Its objective la 800 1 1 from tlx brejLPt of prr-s- til workings, there Is much to denote Its approach to an ore body In tho great lime lode Tho tunnel is advancing said Manager Jack-llng. Jack-llng. at tho rato of ilfty feet a week. t'ondltlons In the .Jeff I air. 1 inii'i, with which the company's estate Is be-inR be-inR developed from ' the other side." are fjullo as gratifying, this tunnel having penetrated the zone already to ji distance nf Cm feet, with connection to W made, or promised, with tho Bonham contact on Its dip from the upper workings In Bonham territory In the n. t V" feet. At tho Ohio, and under the Montgomery option, Mr. jackllng by whom further researches are being conducted, reports Cunningham tunnel again forging ahead in tho copper-bearing porphyries. while to further determine the nature of the new fissure In Utah Copper company's ground east of trc- canyon, two new crosscuts cross-cuts are being extended to It. |