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Show Si BIG TDHfiE FROM MMMM Company Is Crosscutting From Copper Prince Tunnel Tun-nel for Lavinia Vein. Two carloads of nrn per lay are being shippnd from the Michigan-Utah Consolidated Con-solidated property, located in the Littlo Cottonwood district, according to President Presi-dent Norman W. ITaire. Tho ore is being sent out by the Triangle Leasing company, operating in tho torritory abovo tho Cleaves tunnel and the Griz-zley Griz-zley tunnel levels. The net return from the cars is between $400 and $600. President Hairo deposited in the bank yesterday a check for $3:233.36, the not payment received from the smelter for eight carloads of ore that had been settle. set-tle. 1 for. The property never was in better physical condition and the company is earning a good profit from the leasing operations. According to the reports from the officials of tho leasing company, com-pany, there is now in sight enough ore , to continue shipping steadily for at least another year. All of this ore is in territory ter-ritory above the tunnel levels mentioned, men-tioned, tho company operating the territory ter-ritory below those levels. On what is known as the Waters Icaso on ground located on the divide between Big and Little Cottonwood districts dis-tricts George K. Waters and associates are operating and Mr. Waters has informed in-formed President Hairo that he is ready to send out a shipmont. This will average av-erage about $3o to the ton net. In order to explore the territory located lo-cated below the Cleaves and the Griz-zlev Griz-zlev tunnel levels and in the vicinity of what is known as the Contact blowout, blow-out, work is being done from the Copper Cop-per Prince tunnel by the company. The Contact blowout is the overthrust contact, con-tact, between the limestone and the miartzite, with the quartzite forming the footwall and tho limestone forming the hanging wall. It traverses tho entire en-tire property and is cut by the various fissures traversing the property. It is the same contact on which the Cardiff opened the .bonanza ore body iu the Big Cottonwood district. In driving the Copper Prince tunnel this contact was driven through and a fissure followed by the tunnel, under the impression that the Grizzley fissure was being followed. The company has now started the miners to crosscutting to tho southeast, from the end of the Copper Prince tunnel to cut the fissures. fis-sures. Miners have also been started to driving along the contact to the tioutheast, the objective being the points where the fissures intersect the contact. Good progress is being made. |