Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-12-18 | Page 12 | Emerald Crosscut Shows Improvement

EMENU) CROSSCUT SHOWS WOVEH Encounters Contact Between Blue and Wlute Lime, Heavily Mineralized Cont nued raprovement both in. the character of the for nat on. and n the assay returns fro n the rosscut be ng dr ven east on tie "00-foot le el of the Emerald property n tho T nt c d str ct lod cate accord ng to the management that the breast is near ng an ore body The development worl s be ng pushed ahead as rap Uy as possible and the m nets pred ct that any round of shots nay d 3close the ore W thin the last few days the breast has penetrated the contact between the wh to soluble lime sto e and the blue Un estono The present object e of tie east rossc t s an ore bodv bel eved to ex ist beyond tbe present crushed zone to the east of tho tootwall end north of tho break to the south of the south dr ft The contact between the blue and wh te 1 me was oncc-untered on the right s de of the crosscut and shows a considerable increase n tl o m neraliza t on as well as m the assay valne Tor the purpose of cxplor ng the m n erali7e,d zone of the Cont nental Eureka which enters the end 1 neS of the Em erald on the north and traverses the property for a d stance of 3000 feet crosscut was dr en from the 00 foot le el n a norths esterlj d rect on to the zone 1 ro n that port a drlit was dr ven south for 175 feet Four inches of ron was encountered m the drift at the 125 foot point wh cl was running east throuph the football While crosscutting the country and follow ng tho iron what was bel eved to be tbe north edge of an ore body was encountered rurther development work de nonstrated. however that the ore bodv must lie further e ther to the south or to the east and the east cross cut through the football s being rushed ahead upon the advice of engineors fa m 1 ar with the occ rrence of ore bodies in the Tint c district