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Show SULPHIDE ORE CUT 1 BAKER TUNNEL Driving to Reach Contact Vein About Thirty Feet Wide at Surface. That the prospects of getting ore n paying quantities are growing brighter eacl day is ndicated by the increased mineralization in the tunnel being driven on the Baker Mining company s property located In the B g Cottonwood d strict and adjo nln0 the Maxf eld mine, ac cording to the officials General Manager Frank Boyer sa d yesterday tl at two of the 1 o es drl ed ln the breast upon be ng b asted had exposed su ph de ore con ta nlng zinc and lead va ues. the ma n tunne is now in a d stance of about 670 feet and is being driven to cut the la ge contact depos t of Iron ore show ng on the surface and conta nlng about twe ve Inches of 1 lgh grade s ver ead ore It wl be cut at a depth of about 500 feet iron the surface where the contact lying in the bedd ng p anes of the imestone s ows for a width of about thirty feet Accord ng to Genera Manager Boyer the contact should be cut with n the next forty feet of dr v Ing General Manager Boyer accompanied by W Baker one of the orl0- nal owners of the property and by N Ph lps v b ited the work ng-s a few days ago About twenty five feet back from the present breast of the tunnel the m ners encoun tered a strong quartz f ssure show ng chlorides of lead s ver, manganese and specks of ga ena The f ssure was str k Ing In almost the ame d rection as the tunnel was being driven Afte It had crossed the ma n breast the d rect on of the tunne was turned s ght y and It is now be ng driven a ongside the f ssure to reach the po nt where the f ssure w 11 intersect the contact deposit be ng driven for The Baker company s cap tal zed for 1.000 000 shares the par value of each snare being 10 cents There are about 400 000 shares in he treasury |