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Show MOM LAKE HUE SHMiE RICH ODES Tunnel Being Run 390 Feet to Strike a High-Grade Lodge. Special to The Tribune AMERICAN FORK. July 25. William II. Gardner of this city came homo last evening from tho Mountain Lake mining property, near tho Park City rnlning district, where he had gone to Inspect its workings. This property has become very well known during the past few months because of the attention which "Uncle Jessie" Knight of Provo has been giving It. The company Is a very largo one. having hav-ing In all about sixty-seven mining claims, thirty-one of which are patented, and cover an area of about two by four and a half miles, reaching from the Snake creek side over into the Alta district. According to Gardner the work Is now In a. depth of 3500 feet on the long tunnel, tun-nel, which ls now being run lo strike tho contact of a largo outciopplmr which lies above and In which avlues running as high as $1000 a ton have been mined. They now figure that It will be necessary to run about 390 feet before they sit Ike this contact. In running' this tunnel they have crosscut cross-cut large fissures of ore. which they have gone oh past In an attempt to rush the completion of ihc main tunnel. The amount of ore in some of these fissures is of huge proportions and a big mine by thomselves. |