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Show MAKE GOOD PROGRESS 01 dOlliS EX. v Miners Equipped With Machine Ma-chine Drills Raising on Blue Bird Fissure. Heavy sulpirides are beginning to show in the raise bein driven on the Blue Bird fissure on tiie Columbus Kx-ten Kx-ten ;:ion property, according to General truperintemient A. O. Jaoob?ou, who hus returned 1'rom a trip of inspection to ihe Little Cottonwood dictrifit. He was accompanied by Charles .S. Herig. .vho pent his time in t:ie district in exai" u.in various properties. Tho raise on the tiluj Jiir l .f lbMire is now up a distance 01 a bo Jt twenty tee; 11 oin the main tunnel U vei and is beinx driven ahead as lupiajv as pos-.-it!f. It is located about -.'"'J feet back f roni the ir.arn breast of the tun uel and its objective is the point where the fissure intersects t lie quartzite-1 quartzite-1 im est ouo eon tact. A c cording to Cieu-eral Cieu-eral Superintendent Jaco'nsun, the raice should reah ; ho contact ithiu about t-bi riy teet of dri'i ug beyond its pres-eu pres-eu t poiut. Machine dri ds a re being used an! good headway ia being made. in the f-.juthwest duft off t ho main tuiiuei level, where the miners equipped with machine drills ;ive following wnat is nt-lieved to le the old Toledo l: satire, a chint- in the limestone lias been en-coui'T'-d. The drift is now in a dis-t:iN dis-t:iN c of a.;'U.t -To feet troin the main t v i.iu 1. I ; is the intent ion of the mat aeuient to r;art r.iiinp as soon a? a Tunnsiua poition of the limestone is rc;e lied. lue raise will bp driven up to reaub the pejrt wh-T" the fissure intersects t lie tpiart:dteiime?rone eon tact, and i ionerai Sunei iii;on('.ent .Taeohson said ves-1 trday l fi.ir. Le was confident that the duu r,w ::rd extension of the old Toledo ore hout wuuld be eneountpre-l j at. that point. He explained that it j w;i ci nii ic rod ad vi'-a ide to drive the 1 nn: invest drift and then raise to th.1 t con Mi 't in preference to fallowing the j cu. tu.-i, despite the fact that buuehes of hih-giadc ore had been encountered alone, tho cnijiact before the ".Mirk was suspeiuied at t li;i t point. The dif fi-i-n i v of Jlaud !in g the vste my teria! made it inadvisable to r-outinue raising on tho ci'iiia-'t, due to its dip. |