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Show RAISE ON CARDIFF CUTS UPPER TUNKEL With the connection made between the lower and main tunnel and the upper tunnel of the Cardiff mine, located in the Big Cottonwood district, the ventilation has not only meen Improved, but the cost of mining the bonanza ore body will be decreased about 25 per cent. The raise that has been driven up on a fissure is 283 feet In length on the vertical and Is actually 315 feet on the pitch. News of the connection being made was telephoned tele-phoned to the local offices yesterday. The physical condition of the mine is excellent. 'according to Superintendent A. Lt Hurley. Between 1 25 and 150 tons of ore are being shipped daily and it is expected that the output will he materially material-ly increased as soon as the machinery is Installed and the work of breaking the ore is done by machine drills. The machinery ma-chinery has arrived at the property and It is expected that it will be installed and in complete working order within tiiree weeks' time. Up to the present time the work of breaking the ore body has been impeded im-peded to a certain extent, due to the fact that It was found necessary to use as little powder as possible on account of Insufficient ventilation In the long tunnel. tun-nel. The greater portion of the ore was broken by picking it down and the expense ex-pense of breaking it was necessarily greater than it will be in the future, when it can be removed by blasting. The raise connecting with the upper tunnel not only gives the main workings better ventilation, but it also affords a much better means for the miners to enter and leave the lower tunnel. Seventv feet of the raise has been driven through solid ore. forty feet of which represents a portion of the shoo I that was struck on the. main tunnel level and thirty feet of which represents what is apparently a portion of another ore shoot of a much higher grade of pre There are at the present time about 100 men on the pay roll of the Cardiff company com-pany and it Is expected that the force will be increased In the near future. |