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Show I Honerine Extension Sends Old Honerhie Tunnel Into Some Rich Resources. I HAS THE FAMOUS OLD I ... TIOXERIXB RESOURCE Heretofore Avoided Ground Is, Xrnv Shown to Be Extreme-I Extreme-I ly "Well Provided. .. j I li has been said ot'teu relative to tbc I I resources of the Stockton mining camp, I as fav as tlie Honerine property was I roncernod. that i ho torritoiy east, of the Connor ore shoot, or the Kathcvmo j crossing, was barren of mineral, and it ' wa hardlv Worth whilo demonstrating I anything else. Bus it lias remained for rho Honerine Extension company to prove that this theory, like many thco- j ries of Stockton, is erroneous. . J. , Raddatz, the well-known imnnier en-eineer. en-eineer. Avho is interested m ,the Honor-I Honor-I ine "Extension property, with several I other well-known Salt Lakers, revealed I a sfto of facts Monday morning that is ! ful of promise not only for tins company com-pany but for the entire btockton camp aENof far east of the dividing lino bo-, tween the Houcrioo and the nonenne Extension properties, the management of the latter organization a. good long time aso drove in a. oOO-foot tunnel. At a point about 'J00 feet in, ilns tunuel encountered a crossing of two lissurcs, which in reality is ihc famous noner-ine noner-ine vein. This upper tunnel was then sent forward to the 300-ioot point, where a full breast of ore was found, in order to get ores, tho old JTononno tunnel was continued into the Honcrine Extension property from the Houerme mine. , , , The story of this work has never been told, and perhaps it never will be wily appreciated. Iu the first place the management was face to . Jtaco with aboutas difficult a proposition as ever confronted a mine management anywhere. any-where. The old Honerine tunnel years zco developed some very rich ore, and if is a veritable beehive of old stopes. ' The Extension management found it a very difficult proposition to keep men on tho job, and not so very many weeks ago a c'ava-in entombed a torce of miners min-ers for eighteen hours, the men being rescued by their comrades from tho daylight day-light side of the tunnel. But the work, was rounded out alter considerable time and expenditure or money, and late last week tho tunnel broke into the Honerine vein, or tbo saraens that tapped in the upper tunnel tun-nel at the 200-foot point. Mr. Eaddatz last heard from tho work late Saturday evening, and up to thnt time the drill; had proceeded for twelve feet into an ore body which was wider than the drift itself. The general average of the faco was 25 per cent lead, 14 ounces silver and SO cents gold, but the average aver-age of the rock as it would be sorted out for shipment runs 45 per cent lead, 30 ounces silver and $1.60 gold per ton. The significance of this find can bo appreciated when it is taken into consideration con-sideration that tho Honerine tunnel is 500 feet vertically deeper than tho upper up-per tunnel, and down to tho nonenno drain tunnel it; is 1S00 fcefc from the upper tunnel, which means on this one rc shoot there arc 1S0O feet of backs. It iv ill be necessary to drive the old Honerine tunnel 125 feet further into tho hill before the second vein is found, tho vein showing a full faco of ore in the upper tunneL In the Honerino drain tunnel it will be necessary to drive 900 feet yet before bringing the breast of his working into the Honcrine Extension Exten-sion territory. When asked relativo to tho significance of the find as far as 'he camp was concerned, Zvlr. Raddatz aid to The Tribune: "Tho Honerino company has demonstrated, demon-strated, that the Honerine vein extends to depth, and we on tho Honerine 15x-thsion 15x-thsion property did not have to show that this was the- case, although wc have done so definitely. "We have also demonstrated that the country east of tho Katherine crossing is not only as richly mineralized ns that portion to the west, but wc have shown that the silver 'and gold values increase tho farther cast you go. The Honerine Mining company still has 900 feet of undeveloped virgin territory on the great Honerine vein, and the Houcrjne Extension property holds 5000 feet of Mus same vein, all virgin territory. V"c have been a long time bririgiug out the Extension property, but wo have done so and it means in a large part a new 'Stockton district " |