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Show TUNNELlS NEARING PR1KGIPAL FISSURE Big Cottonwood Coalition Company Has Excellent Copper Showing. An fxcctlfnt showing of copprtr ore Ii us been eiiroimtered in the hut torn of the iiMiin hhftlt on t ho Big i.'uttoiiwouil ( Daiiliitn .Mums cornpnny a property iu tin: liig Ojtt.unwoo'l itiMtrift, aeonliug to (ifinritl Milliliter T. W. Bell, who la ill alt I,al:e on mining bnsmena. The in-dim; in-dim; hiialt in down ij'J feet un tlu: vkih. (in; has houti .-.huvving all tliu way from I In; Mini'afc, bill recently tliu miners' have struck 11 hih giU'lo pro!uet. About I wiit y ton: U;t e been bi ok eu ami a i i j p r j 1 n t will be mail': in the near fu- I I j j- c . The main tumid is now in a distance of I duo h-rt ami han aUained a l-pth of 6fiO feet t rum the Miirl'ace. Three f is Hiirrrt liavc been cut. The first one was eneuiintered at the 'JUU-j'oot point ami tthuwrt sin ill I .silver and copper va Inert. The seeund one was cut at the ooU-toot point, and is three; feet wide ami shows lead, silver, guld and eopper values. The third f isMire was cut at the 9.i0-foot point, is tvvu ami oue-h;ilf feet wide and shitws ziiie, lead, silver and copper valncH. Weeently tjlringers parallel to I li is l'isin e have been cut. Since tin; installfitinn of the niadiin fry at the proper t v excel lent progress 1 has been made, tlio miners equipped with machine drills advain-ing the tun-! nel between six and one-half ami rcvcm leet ier iluv. Two shifts are employed, in the tunnel. Within 100 feet of rtriv-I ing the big fissure, which ia tlto pres- j eat objet'tive, should be cut. ! The imro is being driven in a souther- 1 ly direction. Ahead of the breast lies llm contact between the white and the: blue limestone, which eontact is nit by1 the fissures fit ri king northeasterly and I southwesterly. When the fissure ia cut at a depth of approximately (500 feet, the miners will drive on it to the southwest south-west nnd Hhould reach the contact in about UK) feet. A compressor will be installed at the shaft ami two shifts put to work on I the ore. The holdings of tho company consist of fifty-three claims, the property adjoining ad-joining the Prince of Wales ground on tho south ami west, tho Alta Tunnel & Transportation company 's ground on the west, tho Woodlawn and the Midii-gan-titah ground on the south and the Cottonwood. King ground, on tho northeast. north-east. . Tho company is capitalized for 1 ,000, 000 shares, par value 2o cents, and there aro fiOO.OOO shares in the treasury. "Willinm liomncy is president, ,1. A. llendlund is vice president, Walter llurd is Keeretary-treasnrer, who, with .lames A. Stanley, Albert Kurd, Leo Me-Cool Me-Cool nnd Mr. Bell, form the directorate. llr. Bell will return to the property-today. |