Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 12 | Alta Tiger Miners Sacking Good Ore

Imta tiger miners SilClG GOOD ORE Building1 Erected for Accommodation Ac-commodation of Men Completed, Two miners are breaking in the ncih-horhood ncih-horhood of live sacks of high-grade eop-pt eop-pt r-lea'l-.silver ore per shift on the Alia Tiser Mining company's property, located in the L,ittlc Cottonwood district, according accord-ing to j'ejorts received hy local oftlcials from Superintendent J. R. Jones, In c h a r e of I li e w o i k . As the w o rk progresses, pro-gresses, the ore Hhowinp; continues to improve. A Hhipment -will he sent out in the near .future. Considerahle deia- was experienced by ihe company recently when it was decided lo construct a loardiiif; and hnnkhouse for the ac'cornniodation of the men employed. em-ployed. Due to the location of the property, prop-erty, which is in what is practically the heart of the Wasatch Mines holdinRS and at a considerahle elevation, it was deemed more economical to have the men employed at the property housed there, instead of at Alta. A boarding and bunkhouse was erected capable of accommodating ten men. and the necessary supplier for the winter months were hauled lo the property. The men who had been employed in the mine were taken out for the necessary grading grad-ing and foundation work of the buildings. build-ings. They are now .back in the mine working on ore. The work at present is beinp confined to the slope orT the incline raise above the Highland Chief tunnel level. The ore body is making between the blue and the gray limestone and it is believed by the management that when the fissure is reached that intersects the contact a much larger ore body will he encountered. encoun-tered. x The company has been financed to carry on a campaign of development work throughout the winter months.