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Show BECK TUNNEL DOES ; GOOD RECENT WGRK Ore Followed Four Hundred Feet From the Uncle Sam Property. Tn Its review of the mine operations j in the Tlntlc district during the week ihe Kuieka Reporter .av.-. the incline drift irom the main tunnel level of the Heck Tunnel vias now followed the ore for a distance of about 400 feet and there t still a very good showing ol ore In the face, although the values are hsrdlv as high as they were a short time ago. Still the ore Is a vrv good shipping product, and for the purpose of prospecting it at great 1 depth, and perhaps furnlehing better out'et for the ore. a drift hes lust been ftarted from the 175-ioot level of the No. i rlmft. This drift should cut the ore body 100 feet deeper than the point at which ft Is now Ik-!ng Ik-!ng bandied. The north drift from the 300 level of the No. 2 Shaft was- discontinued dis-continued after cutilng a flssurs In which the 01c Idlcations were none too favorable. The. management la trying to make tha mine dhv it? way, and for thnt reason cannot undertake an? extensive prospecting. Later, work may again ba taken up toward the north or the shaft The hunch of ore which last week was opened frutii the 300 level of the No. 2 shait at the Colorado is holding out well, according to Buperlnti idont Perry Fuller. This ore Is to the cast and a Mttie below the main ore channel chan-nel In Oils mine nd is undoubtedly an offshoot of the big deposit from which the company has been shipping regularly. regu-larly. According to ntesent indi'-.i-tions. tills ore will connect up with one of the old ."-topes and this means that it will extend for a dlstanct of thirty or forty feet. The development of the Richmond A- Anaconda, property Is heinc handled through the workings of (he I nele Sam mine and retumK are expected from this work within a erv abort Mm Tin fact that the Uncle Sam people are mining min-ing an ore hodv which sppears to he mnking over Into the Richmond A Anaconda Ana-conda ground adds Interest to ihe work which is being done in behalf of the latter compariy The Uncle Bam officials offi-cials viave for sonie time had considerable consid-erable faith m th adjoining ground in which they have the controlling interest, inter-est, and the reeept development 1 In the fjncla Sam make (he Richmond v Anaoondn look exceptionally good to them. At the Mav Day mine tegular shipments ship-ments are being sc-nt out from the new ore body which h;- been pretty thoroughly thor-oughly opened on th 400 level The efforts Io jjet Into the shipping ore from the eve hf'nw have as vol hern Unsuccessful, Un-successful, but it i only a Question of a little more work until a connection will bo made TV'i tl 1 the ore hodv from the raise, which Is now about sixty-five feet above the 500. A drift Is. no--- being driven trom the ton of tl Is ralss ami Is cutting through some very line quartz which promises to make into shipping ore with every round of holes. Toe usual lonnace of ore Is being sent out from the Mav Day and the mine is In exceptionally good condition. Superintendent w D. Loose Btal that he, is now drlvinf a dtifi i'r the purpose of prospecting the ground beneath be-neath the cave which was found In the Sioux mine last week. This cave has good ore Indications, hut the development develop-ment worl which has already been done has failed to locate the proper values. The ground in the vicinity Of the cave will, however, be thoroughly prospected. |