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Show ALTA PICE TUMI HEARING OBJECTIVE Miners Break Into White Limestone Formation Carrying Galena. With the breast of the tunnel showing a uhite limestone formation impregnated with galena, and with the mineralization increasing as the main breast nears the contact between the white and blue limestone lime-stone and the Intersection of the Prince nf Wales fissure. C. W. Frees of the Alta Prince company, the property of which Is located in the Little Cottonwood district, dis-trict, said yesterday that he expected to reach the main objective with the tunnel at any time. Messrs. Brace and Gray, the contractors employed by the company, nre pushing the main tunnel rapidly ahead. The bore is now in a distance of about ID00 feet from the portal. When it reaches the objective point, which Is the intersection inter-section of the Prince of Wales fissure with tljio contact between the white and the blue limestone, a depth of about 500 feet on the vertical from the surface will have been attained. Two shifts of miners are employed and surveys made by engineers en-gineers some time ago indicate that the objective point, is close to the present breast and should be reached with any round of shots. Mr. Frees returned recently from the property, where he made an inspection of the workings. He was accompanied by a number of Salt Iake mining men. About ten feet back from the present breast of the tunnel, and what at that time was the breast, he took samples across the breast that show the galena in the limestone. The property adjoins the Prince of Wales and the Richmond Teresa on the north, the Michigan-Utah Consolidated on the south and east and the Alta Consolidated Con-solidated on the south. A large campaign cam-paign of development work has been outlined out-lined which the Alta Prince company expects to continue throughout the whiter whi-ter months. |