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Show BAKER TiiiEL IN PROMISING GROUND Local Officials Expect Miners Min-ers to Reach Fissure at Any Time. With any round of shots the miners employed in the tunnel being driven on the Baker Mining property, located in the Big Cottonwood district, may reach the contact deposit, according to the local officials. The recent survey shows that the fissure should be cut at any time In the very near future, in case the dip is the same at the tunnel level as it is in the incline shaft driven down on the deposit de-posit from the surface. Ore that ran more than ?50 to the ton was shipped from the upper workings. The tunnel is now in a distance of S$S feet. It has attained a vertical depth of about fiOO feet from the surface and when the fissure is cut there will be about 1000 feet of Kicks, due to its dip. Recently Re-cently the miners have encountered a very hard " and highly-silicified limestone formation, for-mation, which they are confident is the foot wall of the fissure. The dip of the fissure is away from the course of the tunnel. It strikes northwesterly and southeasterly and dips to the northeast, in which direction the tunnel Is being driven. When the fissure is cut it will be drift en on to the northwest, to get the downward extension of the ore body on which the incline siwift was sunk. This will be reached in about eighty feet of driving. One shift is employed and good progress is being made. Tentative plans are under consideration by the management to harness the water from the spring on the property, develop power and install a three-drill compressor. The company owns sixteen claims and the property adjoins the Max field. There are approximately 315,00 shares in the treasury, the company being capitalized for 1.000.000 shares, par value 10 cents. Hynim Nielson is president, Orson Andrus is vice presi lent and general manaeer, Frank Rumel is secretary-treasurer, and they, with Frank Foyer and C. W. Baker, form the directorate. |