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Show LOGGER MHl CO. TO EXTEND TUNNEL Property Adjoining Famous Maxfield Mine Inspected by Officials and Engineer. The management of the logger Mining Min-ing company, the propertv of which adjoins ad-joins the famous Maxfield mine in the i Big 'ot ton wood litr;ct, is a - ranging j lo extend the main worKicg tuimol, and I clans arc now being conftideivd tor con- trading the w-.rk. I'resiioni J. A. Max i field and Henry Jones, the company 'p j engineer, accompanied by a party of I mining men, visiting the property rc-j rc-j cently, whi' h consists of five claims-j claims-j The main tunnel is now in a distance j of more than 100 feet, driven on a nine toot vein, end it is planned to extend : it until it shall reach the intersection ! of vein and the contact between the Iquart.ite and the limestone shale. i The party examined the working? in j : the tunnel and then went over south i about IOi.k) feet to an open cut where j the vein -is shown to be about nine-' i teen feet in width. The cut also shows where t lie vein has come in contact with the calcareous shale beds. At th;it , point there is heavy mineralization. The man a cement of the company is also considering tentative plan? relative to Marling a tunnel on the sh:ile beds, which tunnel would intercept the main jfivsMte and give a depth on the fissure of api loiimately '20 0 feet. This work ; I may be started in the nen r future, a? I the probabilities of onroutite'inu a large ore bodv air said to be excellent. The logger Mining company was or-! or-! rnni7ed recently. Tt is capitalized tor I ,v000 shares, with tho par value ot j each hnre at 1 cent. About .10,000 ' shares oi the stocft have been issued. .1. A. Mnxf-rld. of the Maxfield family, the orig: mil locators ot the Maxfield mine, is president; K. i. Maxfield. vico president : .lames V. Mr Kin nev. seer-tnrv, seer-tnrv, '. S. Tinw'ey. treasurer, who. with Mrs. K. 1 Scott, form the directorate. |