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Show ALTA ISO. m ,h mm Long Bore May Cut It Any Day at 800 Feet From Surface. Tbe soluble, creamy limestone that lies immediately north of ono uf the main fissures on the Alta Tunnel & Transportation company 's property, lo-t'Hted lo-t'Hted at tlie head of Silver l:'orkf off the, Biy Cottonwood vanyun, has been entered by the bib; horn lining dri -en south. General Manager F. V. Hod fish said yesterday that the machine, men expected to reach the fissure with any round of shots. It is one of the heavily -mineralised fissures that traverses trav-erses the eompatiy 's ground aud is dipping toward the present breast of the tunnel. When cut by the big bore a vertical depth of approximately Sdd feet from the. surface will hp attained. For the pn at week the seams in the formation, havo been showing heavy mineralization of a sulphide nature. That the breast is in the immediate vicinity vi-cinity of the fissure is indicated, according ac-cording to the Management, by the steadily increasing flow of water, the drill holes of each round now throwing water. Inasmuch as rich float is to be found along the surfaces on eai'h side of the fissure the management is watching watch-ing the development work with considerable consid-erable interest Hod is receiving daily telephone reports from the property. A striko of considerable importance is expected ex-pected any day. The big bore which is to he used fnr mining and transportation purposes was started on what is known as tne Lucky Dutchman group of claims, the portal being located on Lucky Dutchman No. 6. There are sixteen claims in the group. Whan completed the tiinnel will be about 5000 feet in length. Besides cutting a number of mineralized fissures fis-sures in its own territory it will also open up the fissures iu the following claims: Flora Hagen. Stella. Silver Mountain, Prince of Wale-;, Highland '. Chief. Thutidfrer, Christina .1 oh n son, Davenport. Island, H. K. A., Kxcelsior, ; Matilda, Alice, Rrooklyn, imperial. Har- I rison. Silver King and thr Crizzley. Practically aJl of these veins dip into i the ground of the Alta Tunn-d & Trans-portation Trans-portation company and wiil he cut at depths ranging from Id'i to Mm) 'fe. t , on the vertical from tho surin','. ! The tunnd will aNoycut the fissures, of a number of rlnitv.s and proper t ir 1 Iving beyond it- oh;e-tive point, duo to the fart that they dip toward the Alta Tunnel group. 1 |