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Show (MONITOR WILL DRIVE NEW DEEP TUNNEL To tap the ore bodlos at a depth of 2000 feet and to provide facilities for developing de-veloping adjoining properties, tho Monitor Mining company will run a long lower tunnel In Its property, In the Mullan district dis-trict of Idaho, according to announcement made from the Spokane office. The tunnel tun-nel will be run from a point near the Chicago, Chi-cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway tracks, and engineers have completed a survey for a water power plant, which will be located near the portal of tho tunnel and will generate ample electric energy for the mine and surface equipment. equip-ment. The Monitor In the last few years has shipped a number of cars of high--gradc copper ore. carrying additional values In gold, and the Richmond and St. Lawrence properties, located on a. parallel vein and adjoining the Monitor, have excellent ex-cellent showings of high-grade copper, according to reports of engineers who havo made examinations recently. |