Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-09-03 | Page 6 | Big Cottonwood Coming to Front

BIG COTTOIUO Mli&J) FRONT West Prince of Wales Company Driving Tunnel to Cut Fis-sure Fis-sure at Depth. INCREASED ACTIVITY IN OTHER PROPERTIES Intention Is to Prosccuto Development De-velopment Work During the Winter Months. Another property in the Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood mining dipiriet al, which development devel-opment work is being carried on with veiy encouraging results ia that of the West Prineo of Wales company, of which David .lames is president and general manager. The property is located lo-cated at lho head of Silvor fork of Big Cottonwood canyon, and lies in between the ground control lod 1)3' the Prince of Wales, tho Queen Bess and the Utah Mines Coalition companies and consists of nine clniins. Tho company is incorporated and those who aro in-torosted in-torosted in the proposition say thrit it hns flnnncinl bncking sufljcient to instiro the enrrying on of operations al! winter at least. Work was started about n month ago in tho tunnel which is boinc run in on lho vein, and is now in a distance of thirty Xect. Thos. Bell and .1. F. Kcarns. who have boon at I he property siuro the beginning of tho work, wore in this city Thursday, and stated that everything was moving along in good they sav, to continue tho tunnel for about 300 feet, when they expect to cut the cross-fissure. At this point cross-cutting cross-cutting on tho fissuro both ways, nortli and south, wili bo innugtinitcd, and they figure that in following out this line of work they will encounter both tho old Queen Bess and the Ileed and Benson fissures, both of which have in tho past been productive of high-grade ore values. At the 300-foot mark thev state that the tunnel will tap the inouti-lain inouti-lain at a depth of 1.000 foot, so thai if t Ii 03 are successful in oponing up a body of ore, this fact will be to their groat advantage. Mr. Ivenrns, who has been operating in ihe Hig Cottonwood district for many years past, stales that at present that section of coiinti' is showing great activity, and that a number of the properties up there are forgiug to tho front in good shape. Tho recent developments devel-opments m tho Prince of Wales have naturally stimulated interest in tho properties nd.johiing. Mr. Kcarns says that supplies and provisions will he kept on handj so that it will be possible pos-sible to continue operations at the West Prineo of Wales during the on-tiro on-tiro winter.