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Show EXPECT TD CUT VEIN 1 EIGHTEEW FEET Baker Tunnel, Now In 871 Feet, Is Nearing Contact Con-tact Deposit. Wilhin the next eighteen . feet of driv-nig driv-nig the miners employed on the Raker Mining company's property, located In the Big Cottonwood district, expect to break into the contact vein. The tunnel tun-nel is now in beyond the S71-foot point, having reached that point on Sunday last, when the workings were inspected by Frank Rumel, secretary and treasurer of the company, who has returned to fc'alt Lake. Just before Mr. Rumel left the property prop-erty the shift at work had drilled into I exceptionally hard, crystallized limestone, highly silicified. Recently the miners have been driving through a much softer formation and making very rapid prog-I prog-I ress. Ribs of exceptionally hard lime-. lime-. stone have also been encountered at in-! in-! tervals. 1 In the event that the dip of the con-I con-I tact vein is the same at the tunnel level ! as it is in the incline shaft from which I the ore was shipped near the surface, the ; vein will be cut within eighteen feet. It mav, however, in case the vein has straigtened up at the greater depth, be cut with any round of shots. It is dipping dip-ping away from the tunnel. The vein will be cut at a depth of about 520 feet on its dip and at a verti-i verti-i cal depth of 398 feet from the surface. ; The vein strikes northwesterly and southeasterly south-easterly and dips to the northeast, in which direction the tunnel is being driven. Out of the shaft sunk from the surface on the vein ore was shipped that netted the operators better than $50 to the ton. The company owns sixteen claims and the property adjoins the Maxfield mine on the east. Capitalized for 1,000,000 shares, par value 10 cents, there are about 315,000 shares in the treasury. Hyrum Nlelson is president, Orson An-drus An-drus is vice president and general manager; man-ager; Frank Rumel is secretary-treasurer, and they, with Frank Boyer and C. W. Baker, form the directorate. |