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Show CARDIFF PREPARES FOR INTER WORK Company Will Confine Its Efforts Upon Lower Tunnel Tun-nel This Season. Ezra Thompson, president of the Cardiff company, stated on Tuesday that the management wan preparing the property for an energetic campaign of winter operations, op-erations, and the teams bringing down oro from this Big Cottonwood proposition axe tailing back supplies of every description. descrip-tion. The company Is making no endeavor en-deavor to crowd production, nor will such be attempted until the lower tunnnl lias been sent to the point where the ore at depth should make Its appearance. Work on this lower tunnel for a. short time past has not been crowded, but when the ore hlpning season la at an end all work on the upper or original levels will bn discontinued for tho win-tor win-tor and all the men put to work driving driv-ing tho lower tunnel. Splendid progress Is anticipated and when the spring of 1913 begins to smile upon Big Cottonwood tho lower tunnel should havo a dcckled-lv dcckled-lv gra.tifying story to tell shareholders. " Tho tunnel Vias penetrated tho drlfl material and is In solid rock formation. The contact Is not far ahead of the pres-nt pres-nt faco and when this Is gained It will be followed into the hill, and It is logical logi-cal to expect that this contact will disclose dis-close ore bodies at any time. |