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Show PROSPECTS BETTER AT M TlllEL Breast of Big Bore Heavily Oxidized and More Mineral Showing e raa b east of the tunnel being d ven bv e Alta Tunne iS. Transporta on compa y 5 now ooking better than a any lme s n e t e work was star ed a o dint 0 Pred V Bodf general nan ger ho has retu ed from a trip f nspection to the property It Is lo a ed at t a head of SI ve Fork ih the B g Co tonwood d s r c Th b g bo e wh h is being driven al rn t due south fo t ansportation and min ng p rposes a d w ch has deve oped a eav f ow of vate s o v in bejond e 1700 foot po nt tvhere a dep of about 1000 fee 1 as been at ained Fo the ast 400 feet of dri -ing the tunne has been passing through limestone impreg nated w th sulph des The miners have e-tperienced considerable difficult due to the heavy flow of water Tl e main breast is now heav ly oxl dlzed the seams in the rock are fil ed with mineral and when Mr Bodfish was at the property each ho e was delivering vater wl lch has Increased according to the report he received last night from the property He is of the opinion that the miners are about to break Into the Coop er fissure the most norther y ore producing pro-ducing fissure In the Little Cottonwood district . The breast Is jiow presenting the same appearance that was found In the Prince of Wales property Just before the miners struck the ore on the ground under lease to Mack &. Hansen j Reports from the property are to the effect that the Mines Development com pany leasing a block of ground from the Alta Tunnel company has broken Into about three feet of ore Fred jL. Schrott, In charge of the work on the leased ground has telephoned the local officials to send up a supply of ore saaks There is about two feet of snow on the level at the portal of the Alta Tunnel accord ing to Mr Bodfish and about four feet of snow on the level at the Prince of Wales property |