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Show COLUMBUS EXTENSION GETS IHE BODY Five-foot Face of Copper-silver-lead Uncovered in No. 2 Fissure. i An unexpected ore body has been uncovered un-covered in the Columbus Extension around, in the AUa-Big Cottonwood district. dis-trict. Within a week miners will be put to work developing It. The work of in- ; stalling the air line for ventilation pur- , poss, however, must rirst be completed, funeral Superintendent A. O. Jacob pon has returned from a trip to the property, ! whfre he went with Superintendent J. A. Cowan. Superintendent Cowan will renin re-nin in at the mine and push the work along as rapidly as possihle. Th new ore body was found In the No. 2 fissure and Is located about 1"".0 tr'-t lack from the breast of the main tunnel. When this fissure was cut alout three vear aso It contained eo much water wa-ter that It was necessary to bulkhead it. The tunnel was driven onward and no attempt was made to follow the tia-s:ire tia-s:ire to t he contact. In the course of retimberinc portions of the tunnel recently the bulkhead was I removed, whereupon the ein material In j thy figure bee:n caving. While removing remov-ing the muck the miners found large houldei-H of copper ore. C.menil Super-inUndent Super-inUndent Jaenbson and Superintendent Cowan climbed up over the caved mater! ma-ter! il dav before veterday and In the r.xf came upon five fe-t of copper liver-lend liver-lend ore where the vein material had raved awav and exposed It The nsure cnnt.i!n1nc the ore Is in the rjuartr.te ar.l will be followed to tho contact te-twp te-twp tho lime and the quartzl!. Three other Ilsoures that have been ct nnd MilkhadMl in th- murse of the tunnpl and which hnve since hr-n drained nf water will also be followed t- tne contact con-tact The work, hnw.-ver. will not be started until the timbering and the ven-'ilatlon ven-'ilatlon svstoni have been conipletr-1. The n'r line for ventilation purposes bus -er-n tVnrfrrrd from the Klnpstafr tunnel tun-nel tn tbe Columbus Extension tunnel nd Htrung out. It now l-cmg connected con-nected on md this work. a well as the rrtimberlnc work. III be completed within with-in a week's time. Te breast to the north and the brejist to the south mi the contact are now Ho ffet apart nnd are beimr driven onward, ''nth brensts art? he:i vllv mbiernllzed. .Tu-t ns soon as IN- breasts of tlie tunnel Hint Is belli' driven on the contact !n or-nnpltf. or-nnpltf. direction! from the hlch-cTade. ort hodv encountered recrntlv are far enouuh avvav from It to allow work to be stand on It it 1" o be d.-v.-loi.e,l. A raNe will .e driven cn It. as well as a drift out Into Ibe limestone. This will be within tui ilnvrt or two weeks. Superintendent Cowan will remain at the propertv nnd piiwh the development work ahead that has been outlined. |