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Show MINERAL FIAT H HEW IRE BEPOSiT Reports From American Fork Say Property Is Opening Up Well. STRIKE MADE IN MIDDLE TUNNEL Work Continues as Usual and Still Further Developments Arc Looked For. Special to The Tribune. j AMEttCCAN FORFv, Sept. I I. .Reports .Re-ports of a most, encouraging nature arc coming from the property of tlic Mineral Min-eral Flat Mining company. Tho latest news is to tlio effect that a five-foot breast of galena ore lias been uncovered in the middle tunnel, and Manager .1. C. Jensen and 1j. W. Neilson, who visited vis-ited the mine immediately upon receipt of the information arc very well pleased with conditions as they found them thoro. In speaking of the recent, strike Mr. Neilson slated that the ore body certainly looked very encouraging to him, ami he believes it to be the. most important discovery that has yet been made at. (.ho property. The discovery was made in an upraise up-raise which Avas started only a short, time ago, and which has been run about ton feet, and late reports; from the mine are thai the oro is showing on all sides of tho workings. Between four and live tons of the ore have already been broken down and it. all shows high values. The lower tunnel, which is now in about MOO foot, is still in the Vdack lime, though the while linto formation, in which the ore makes, is expected to be broken into in a very short, time. It is the same contact that is expected in the lower tunnel that has just developed de-veloped into ore in tho middle tunnel. |