Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-21 | Page 18 | Interest is Great in American Fork

MEREST ISlIf II MIC! FOBK Mining Circles Manifest Interest In-terest in District Recently Re-cently Rejuvenated. MUCH RICH GROUND Miller Hill Is Making Good Progress on Tunnel for Pacific Fissure. Lcrv hit of news that now is com-iny com-iny from Amnriau Fork district appears ap-pears to emphasize the fact that this tamoiiH sert.ion will soon demonstrate what is behind thft preamit activity in a maniinr tlisit will ln:tft no room for doubt. The Kniyht people, as is f well lv nown, have mnilo tilings "lunti" at the Mill'M- Hill as a starter, and no iewnr than a dozen other companies are pushing active and favorable development develop-ment work. According to reports from the camp, more than ten feet a day is now being made in the Miller Kill company 's tunnel. tun-nel. The avenue lias now attained a length of l-")0 I'eet and, if calculations hold good, ihe so-called l'acific fissure should be reached not later than the iniddlo of next month. J r' the vein suingn out of the Pacific at a sharper angle to the west than is anticipated, a somewhat greater distance may have to be covered to reach it in the Miller Kill tunnel, but the management declares de-clares that it can hold them off not more than a few days, because they can crowd the work in the tunnel to a distance dis-tance of fifteen feet a dnv if necessary. In other words, the Miller Hill company com-pany expects to be mining high-grade ore and shipping wit bin another month. Nearing Big Fissure. The distance which the Miller Hill will have to run its tunnel will determine deter-mine the distance yet to be covered iu the tunnel on the AVhirlwind to tap the same fissure. A3 a matter of fact, it is now considered a toss-up as to which company will open the big ledge first. In the Whirlwind ground Manager Charles Tyug expects to cut at least two, and probably three, important ore-bearing ore-bearing fissures hefore the limits of the ground are reached by the tunnel. When the stopping place comes in the Whirlwind Whirl-wind tunnel the face will be at the southern boundary of the Texan company com-pany 's large estate, ready for extension into the latter company's ground at a perpendicular depth of more than 100U feet below the level of the Texan tunnel. tun-nel. Progress at Texan. At the Texan work is now being ru shed in the deep tunnel, and the face is so highly mineralized and streaked up with stringers of high-grade sulphide silver-lead ore that the big fissur for which the workings are headed mav be encountered at any time, though Man-cger Man-cger Tyng declares that there may be a greater distance to run than anticipated, antici-pated, owing to the highly favorable condition of the ground for the dissemination dis-semination of mineral and the consequent conse-quent chance for it to have worked out farther from the fissure than estimated. But the ore is already in evidence, and it cnii now be only a matter of work I j tai the main source. T'n' Ki-iM-es Development company, which i- operating the Pacific and the Dutchman, i.i obtaining bigger and bigger big-ger result- all the time, and, in addition addi-tion to t tie regular Miipments of high-grade high-grade ore, it i? making a fine tonnage of concentrates -in the mill on Dutchman Dutch-man ground that recently went into commission. Belerophon Shows Well. The Beli-rophon company is now opening open-ing li j j the ore enroii n Lived late last vcTir, and Manager Jack (."leghorn promises prom-ises that a fine tonnage will be going to market as soon as it is possible to get teams to the loading point below the mine. The Knrl-Kagle is still crowding -work in its tunnel and the ('Kobe Consolidated Consolidat-ed is getting ready to cut loose again. The Son tii Park, Kay State, Mineral Flat, and several other propositions arc crowding development work and when springtime rolls around tiie entire district dis-trict is expected to bo ready to show the world that it is (joiner to rank with the other big camps within a few hours' ride of Salt Lake.