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Show BIG Mil IS BEING (IPEKE1I M TOOELE Situated in Settlement Canyon, and Promises to Be a Wonder. Special to Tho Tribune. v TOOELE, Jan. 24. It has long been thought by the people' of Tooelo that up the left fork of Settlement Canyon, through the natural course of Improvement Improve-ment in method of development, there would somo day be ono of the mines of the age. Most of the old settlers realized that this was good mineral ground, and even farmers nnd Others acquainted with mineral min-eral conditions could seo the different cropplngs on the surfaco of the ground. During tho last thirty years tho ground has been located and relocated by different differ-ent local parties, but no deflnito systematic systemat-ic work has ever been done, for tho reason rea-son that no practical miners ever had possession of tho property until recently. Two and a half years ago the ground passed Into the hands of three miners from Bingham, Carlson, Ferlln and Parsons, Par-sons, who Immediately set out on a campaign cam-paign of development along proper lines, starting a. big tunnel deep down In the gulch In such a way as to cut the formation forma-tion and uncover tho veins at depth. Lacking the necessary funds to carry out their plans they organized a company lost summer. Among the now members of tho company are Superintendent McDonald Mc-Donald of tho Utah Copper mine at Bingham Bing-ham Junction, A. Smith of Salt Lake City and F. J. Mallet of Tooele. To put themselves them-selves on safe grounds and find out cx-actly cx-actly their prospects, the company secured se-cured the services of some of the leading oxperts of the United States, notable am.ong whom were Professor Peck of the School of Mines at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania and a United States government gov-ernment export who pronounced the property prop-erty equal to the best In Bingham. The work is now continued to the driving of the main tunnel, in order to reach the first vein as soon as possible. Then the work will be branching out In different directions on this vein, which, according to surface Indications, Is a very large ono. while tho tunnel will be continued on tho other ten veins which parallel the first one. The directors aro confident of opening up ft big mine In "the near futre. Its outcome out-come will mean a great deal to Tooele and the surroundhiFT country. |