Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-28 | Page 18 | Breaking Ore in the Alta Tunnel Ground

BREAKING ORE IN THE ALTA TOIEL Gil Long Bore Expected to Cut the Flora Hagen Vein With Any Round. The values are increasing as the drift to the southwest progress and a great er amount of high-grade lead-silver ore is being sacked for shipment on the Alta Tunnel & Transportation company's property, located at the head of Silver fork in the. Big Cottonwood district, according ac-cording to the reports that reached the local, officials yesterday from the property. prop-erty. The ground in question is under lease to the Mines Development company. com-pany. In the breast of the main tunnel tun-nel being driven by the Alta Tunnel company, Tfrhich tunnel is now in beyond the 2000-foot point, the blue limestone formation, which heretofore has been dipping toward the breast of the tunnel tun-nel at about IS degrees from the horizontal, hori-zontal, is now standing practically vertical. ver-tical. This indicates, according to the management, that a section of ground is being neared that has been tilted up hv on intrinsi vo It is expected that the Flora Hagen vein will be cut by the tunnel in any round of shots. This is an ore-bearing vein, and, with the breast of the tunnel tun-nel showing more mineralization, the management is looking forward to the cutting of the vein and to important developments. A depth of about 1200 feet has been attained at the breast of the tunnel, and from now on depth will be gained rapidlv. The next vein to be cut after the Flora Hagen vein is the Congress vein, at which point the tunnel tun-nel will have entered the northerly edge of the Clements ground, recently acquired by the company. Considerable high-grade ore has been shipped from the Clements ground in the past by lessees. This came from the surface and along the Congress vein. The property was never developed at depth, due to the lack of a. practical tunnel. tun-nel. The Clements ground will be cut at a depth of about 1300 feet by the tunnel now being driven and it is expected ex-pected that important ore bodies will be disclosed as soon as the ground is explored. In the event that the ore in the Congress vein goes to the deep, the officials of the Alta Tunnel company com-pany expect to strike it when the vein 1 is cut. I