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Show BONANZA MINE IS MAKING PROGRESS General Manager A I Prit chard of the Big Cottonwood Bonanza mine, located in Day's Fork, returned Sunday night from a trip to the property. He reports that the miners are steadily driving ahead, two shifts being employed, the property being now fully equipped with rails, cars . and all incidentals necessary to satisfactory progress. The tunnel is now In 265 feet. The roof shows a black lime shale that Is mineralized, min-eralized, while the main body of the tunnel tun-nel is in a white lime that Is mineralized, showing a sulphide of iron. The work will be pushed with all reasonable speed to reach 'the contact, which apparentlv is not far from the present face of the tunnel, tun-nel, the strong manganese showing of the tunnel indicating that the ore is not far distant. |