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Show MIHUKG JIGTIVE IN SOUTH FORK Tunnel on Price Ground in 120 Feet; Prepared to Work All Winter. T lie re is more mining a"t i i I y a nd more men employed in the South Fork of tlie pd t '( tonwood cannn at tho present time than at anv time in years, according to Fred W. Price, president of the Price Mining company, tlie Iemi-John Iemi-John rousoliflated Mining company and vice pros id in I of i ho ( drdif f com pa 11 v. President Price has returned from a trip of inspection to the Price Mining company com-pany 's ground. The main tunnel that is bciii driven for t he purpose of cutting one 0 the ore bearing 01 ns is now in 1 L'O feet. The ground is stifl ''heavy.". All of tho spiling, both top and sides of the tunnel, tun-nel, has to be driveu ahead and the tunnel tun-nel timbered. As a consequence the progress is slow, hut President Price i of the opinion that t ho it mi n breast is very close to the hard formation. Prep' a rat ions hr vo been made to cam on tif work throughout the winter months. The engineer in the employ of the company 1 now on tho ground making survevs and estimating the neec-sary distance to be driven by the tunnel before be-fore it reaches its objective point. It will ut one of the ore bearing veins at a vertical depth ot' about I'lOb feet from the ftirface. In discusbing the work at the Demijohn Demi-john property, located near Pioc he, Nov., President Price said that the main drift, off the IHK'-foot level, that i being be-ing driven in a northeasterly direction to cut the Yuba dike, was now in a distance dis-tance of feet. The blue limestone is apparently being left behind and the miners are beginning to encounter the gray limestone formation. Two shi f ts are employed, equipped with machine drills. The following com pa nies and proper-t proper-t ies are at present carry nig on mining min-ing operations in the Big Cotton vffod d ist rict : The Brandborg Mining coin- panv has three men emplovfM; Keed a Pcali company, five men; nst Carbonate Carbon-ate company, three men; Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood C onsolidated, five men; TarBaby, four men; Price Mining, six men: Monte C'risto, six men ; A merican Con sol id a ted Copper, six men; Kennebec, three men. ami the Cardiff, 11,1 men. Besides the companies operating, six lessees are employed em-ployed on the old Carbonate property, two men are working ou the Last Chance claim and two men are working work-ing on the Thor & Venus claim. |