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Show ALTA-HELENA MINE IS BEING DEVELOPED The Alta-Helena Mining company, owned principally by H. N. Bjork, 2sor-val 2sor-val Stuart and Charles Anderson of Sandy, is doing a jjrp.at deal of work on the property and the indications promise prom-ise a prosperous future, according to an an nouD cement made yesterday by an officer of the company. The company controls forty acres of land adjoining I-ast Hccla, South Hecla, Secret and Mountain Lnke Extension in the Little Cottonwood diptriet. The chief values found are in gold, copper and silver. A tunnel is Tieing driven to shaft No. 1, in which it is expected that a large ore body will be encountered. Contact i.i expected to be reached by driving the tunnel about seventy-five feet. Incline In-cline No. 3 is reported to contain ores which assay four ounces in gold, twenty-two twenty-two ounces in silver and 12 per cent copper. Work also is being pushed on a cross fissure in shaft Xo. 1 and a contract hfis been closed for tunnel work in what is known as the Alta-Helena, or main tunnel. The tunnel is now in sixty feet. A blacksmith shop with all facilities necessary for the work iti hand has been erected on the property and preparations are under way f or the installation of machinery for the driving of the tunnel. A car of ore is now on the dump ready for ship-, nient. I |