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Show I RAISE i CARDIFF IOW UPRFT, PEI f Strong m Ore, With Aver- ajje Sample Returning Sil-1 Sil-1 ver and Lead Values, f 850 TONS SHIPPED j Body Opened Along Strike 160 Feet and Crosscut 1 43 Feet All m Ore 4 ' The ore In the raise that la being driven ! trvm the main tunnel now In more than one half mile of the Cardiff mine lc- oated In the south fork of the Big Cotton f wood canyon still continues strong and has been opened up In width for a dls tanoe of about ten feet, aocording to a report received at the local offioes yes ' terday from Superintendent A. L. Hurley An average sample taken aoross the roof erf the raise returned 17 4 ounces In sll : tear and 2.8 per cent In lead to the ton. The raise la now up a distance of f fty feet. Its width Is doe. to the fact that two sets of timbers are required to carry the ground. The timbering ihas also lm pedea the progress of the ra se With the Umbering caught up however both timbering and raising will be pushed ahead as rapidly as possible. The raise will bo driven on up to con neot with the upper tunnel In order that oettei ventilation may be Becured and also to afford the miners a better means of entering the main tunnel The upper tunnel Is conneoted with the surface bj a shaft, the co lar of which on the surface is close to the boarding house. Pushing Raise Ahead The work of driving the main tunnel ahead has been stopped as has also the work of drifting a ong tl e supposed hang ing wal the management being desirous of pushing the ral'je ahead with all pos s ble speed. Another reason for confining the development v.ork to the raise Is that the ore be ig mined from that por ! tion of the proper y is keep ng the teams constantly emp oyed in 1 auling to the , smelter at Murraj i There has been shipped from th s one strike up to date approximate y 850 tons 'I of ore wl h an average alue of $30 to I: the ton. All of this ore thas been taken I out during the progress of dove opment work and no effort has been made to Increase the tannage In fact the man Iagement has been des rous of keeping the tonnage as low as the necessary de ve opment work would permit The low price of the roeta s and the lack of fac 1 Itles for stor ng the tonnage that could be mined has been responsible for the low tonnage In tlew of the magnitude of the strike II Extent of Development i In driving the ma n tunnel along the lime quartz te the ore body was encoun tered, and t 1 as been opened up for ap proximately 1G0 feet a ong Its strike with the roof breast f oor and both sides In sol d ore fo the greater portion of that distance At a po nt about a xty feet back f o n the breast of the main tunnel la crosscut was dr en easterly and west erly to determine the extent of the o e body V en la a d stance of twenty five feet in the east crosscut, what was sup toosed to be the hanging wall was encoun (tered but Super n endent Hurley Is In ons derable doubt as to whether it Is the true wall. The supposed wall encoun ; f ered In the west cro-scut In e ghtecn t feet has proved to be a lime slip and pot the footwal Both the roof and the i t oor of the crosscuts show the ore going ! up and down strong The extent of the ore body Is problem aticaL W1U the ore cont nu ng strong n the ra se and with the surface show ng pf ore along the contact at a point prac tlcally above where the ore lias been de ve oped In the ma n tunnel, with the breast of the main tunnel In solid ore and the breast of the souti drft along the -supposed hang ng wall In ore and with ; h s drift driven at a constantly widening 4 , ing e from the ma n tunne consen atlve K ailn ng men hes tate to even venture an It Pinloa. to the extent of the body in U ilscusslng the raise and considering the SUIJa, .ehwlnS they say that in al , I orobabll ty the ore wl 1 continue to the nirtace Should It cont nue upward there rro'und approximately 600 feet of stoplng Depth Problematical .5,.aJ;te.mpi as been maa D tt man gement to determ ne the depth to wh ch he ore goeB and President Ezra Thomp i on said jesterday that no attempt would ,etaa"ntlItte rase had been com ! ut7 If terrttory he ong ng to the Car hit n?any ? ons th9 Present contact f w. . belns f0 on wheh ground i ? V! '.BOm? excellent surface showings 4 JL!S ?? intent on of the management 3 mtlmately to drive the tunnel trough t ST0? I 3 etest depth from Tthe J ?!fwmb.?n tha vertical about 3 600 feet Tentatl e plans are alsobe I eonsMared for the erection of an 8 erlal tramway This wou d permit of I Dora onomical handling of the tonnage! |