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Show ALTA I1IL BUST Long Eore to Be Rushed Into Recently-bought Ground. Miners equipped with machine drills are again drilling in the breast of the long bore being driven by the Alta Tunnel Tun-nel & Transportation company, at the head of Silver Fork, in the Big Cottonwood Cot-tonwood district. The work of putting in the water ditch from the portal and straightening out the track, has been completed. Tho ventilation line is being be-ing installed as rapidly as possible. Two shifts are employed according to the reports received "by telephone from the property by local officials yesterday. Plans are aiso being considered for the starting of miners on the 1200-foot vein of brecciated limestone that has been cut m the tunnel at a depth of approximately 1200 feet from the surface sur-face on the vertical. The management has not as yet decided at which point this work will be started. There are three promising points in the tunnel from which to start work, and samples will be taken at those points. The brecciated vein, 200 feet in width, and consisting of fragments of blue limestone, lime-stone, white soluble limestone and porphyry, por-phyry, all of which shows lead, copper and silver values scattered through it, strikes easterly and westerly, crossing the direction of the tunnel which is being driven almost due south. At a point about 100 feet northerly from the brecciated vein is a northeast-southwest fissure carrying a considerable percentage per-centage of manganese and iron. It will intersect the brecciated vein at a point about 500 feet to the west of the tunnel tun-nel proper. The contact between the blue limestone and the brecciated vein also offers a promising point at which to start the work. There is in addition a water course that is considered promising prom-ising for prospecting purposes. Beyond the present breast, which is in a distance of 2045 feet from the portal, the management expects to cut the Flora Hagen vein with any round of shots. Further on lies the Clements group of claims, recently acquired, and which ground is crossed by ore-producing fissures. |