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Show MI18 PROGRESS OH ALBION GROUND Nearing Fissure on Which Lessees Struck Ore on South Hecla. "Within but a shurt distance of (he Kate Hays fissure, on wh ieh lessees operating on the South Hecla property have recently strurk ore in paying quantities, quan-tities, the mi n era employed by t he A I-bion I-bion company, the prfi perry of which is located in thn Little Cottonwood district, dis-trict, are driving steadily southeast from the fare 0f -;Hst No. il of the Alia. htincv Innnid. The fissure may 1m rut with any round of shots, a'-cordnig ti the rr.anagenieitt. t The ) resent rat e of progress is approximately ap-proximately four feet per dav, 1 wo shifts equipped uith machine drills being employed. em-ployed. The (iroscut, which was started in Sout h H erla ground, is now about 200 feet within the lines of the Albion company. It. was started at a point about 3o00 feet from the portal or the Alta Qiiincy tunnel. When the objee tive or the present work is reached it' will open the Albion ground at about lL'fiO feet from the surface. The present face in the Albion ground is about 14 no fret easterly from where the lessees' have struck the ore in the South Hecla ground. They enr-ointterJd the ore on the K -te I t.iys f isur.- aud. with the seams t f the' ro.-k through which the crosscut K being driven showing show-ing heavy mtiifMalizatinii. thoe conversant conver-sant with the property are looking forward for-ward to devtdoj'UH Ms of an important nature in the near future. The nresent workings, when eon tinned, tin-ned, will niEiUe ar.-es.-dble the upper portion por-tion of the A lb inn ground, f oriuerly k now n as the old AW! ling tun. from : which there whs produced near the surface sur-face more than fl .O'.'o.iV'O wortti of ore. I Due to the fnr t that the work i rig n re j loentd lnyh up on the mountainside, I the com pa ii v was ronTinMoti--ly rou- ; fronted with the problem of boating the I ore down tin mm: nt inside to the roadway road-way and of n.'hvt.png i on the wagons. When the nl.ie.-rive nf th" present rr.i-cut rr.i-cut is reached the ore c:m be londcd on the wncnin j,t the portal of the Alta Quine v ti'nn-l It is T he indention of the tuanafe-ni"nt tuanafe-ni"nt to .j'ifr nloew tin Kate ILi,- f-n-sure as s.-.o.-i m i .-nt tu ),' i --t v.here it i-; i r. :"-. '..! by th" -j (.: :ev fi-irr. which in' co:i-:.;.'rd j the ni''M Pk'd; p'jc fnr ore d.-jo-i! tion. j |