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Show Hi FISSURE III mm lie Lung Tumi cl 'Taps Another Vein Whose Values Are Extremely Ex-tremely Hidi. TUNNEL DRIVEN IX FOUR THOUSAND FEET Main Contact and Principal Resources Re-sources will Be Tapped by April. On Tuesday word reached Salt Lake City from the property or the Mountain Lake company that on the previous day there had been a new find of ore that made those interested In the company very jubilant. While the facts available lack official confirmation, they wero so persistent that they boro the stamp of truth, and wore readily received. U seems that tho find is another one of those frequent fissures found aioxig the path of the main tunnel, only thai tho ore runs to unusually high altitudes In the precious pre-cious metals. It was staled that values ranging to as high as $600 had been obtained ob-tained from the new rock.' : The main tunnel Is now In a distance ot somorhing like 4000 fcol. which will be a mntter of some surprise to those who have not been keeping closely i touch with the work of this company. Thero is not a company during the past few months that haa bcon putting In mote hard licks than the Mountain Lake, not pausing to catch its breath oven during the thick of the financial panic. It is understood that two miners are now working on the new fissure, and that they are taking out anywhere from five to ten tons a day of the ore. The company com-pany in the meantime Is sending the tunnel tun-nel on in. hoping to reach the main contact con-tact some time In the coming April. It Is this contact on which the main hopes pf the officials are based, and if the ore IB there found In anyways near Its condition con-dition on the surface the Mountain Lake will have one of the greai mines of the M.te" F,om t,,e P()it where the tunnel will tap the contact to the surface It is about 1700 feet, and the surface showing Is magnificent. ' During the past few months the management man-agement lias been handling considerable pre, both in doing development work and in following fissures, as In the present ease. The snows up that way are deep at present, but with tho coming of the spring mom hp. and with more umplu smelting facilities that those at present, the Company should send In a fine assortment assort-ment of rich rock for marketing. |