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Show WMHH IN Fill)! VEM General Manager J. Benton Leggat Makes Report on Condition of Property. J. Benton Leggat, gnneral manager nf the Montana-Bingliam Consolidated Mining company, nays that the big Montana-Bingham drainage au'l transportation trans-portation tunnel finally passml through the porphyry dyke which it has been cutting in the last 270 foot yesterday noon, and iy now to the great Fortuna vein. One hundred feet further the tunnel will cut, the .Mayflower vein, one of t ho large coppr veins in the district, and this will be its present destination. Work will bo hegun immediately drifting on the Fortuna and raising to the lower workings of the Fortuna, 3400 feet above. The contact with the Fortuna, made by the tunnel yesterday, yes-terday, is vertically under a point about 500 feet from the portal of the Fortuna tunnel, which enters the mountain moun-tain on the slope opposite the town of Bingham. This vein in the Fortuna workings has been exploited for some .".000 feet on a dip of 2'2 degrees, and has constantly shown increased enrichment. enrich-ment. Where the principal ore ship-! mentH are now being made the vein is 100 feet wide without enveloping the limit, of either the hanging or foot walls. It is probable that the management man-agement will drift from the Montana-Bingham Montana-Bingham tunnel i-oir.aet .so that a raise can be made to this point. Last week the Fortuna shipped three carloads of concentrates of a net value of approximately $1000 a car. Seventy- I five additional tons of high-grade con- j cent rates are now awaiti ng shipment, i The total Fortuna shipments during the last month netted the company about I $15,000. Shipments of concentrates, j however, will be greatly increased as I moon as another unit can be added to the mill. The machinery is ordered and a portion of it installed. Tho contact of the drainage and transportation tunnel with the Fortuna vein made yesterday is the most important im-portant development news from the property in some time, proving the immense im-mense copper ore bodies at depth. A party of Honolulu capitalists inspected in-spected the mine Thursday, Friday and yesterday. All of them are heavily Interested In-terested and expressed themselves as most enthusiastic over the future. The progress of Montana-Bingham Is one that, has as great, if not greater, interest in Honolulu as in Salt Lake. James K. Higgins, general manager of the Fortuna, stated last night that never in his experience in mining had a mill worked so successfully as the I first unit of the new Fortuna mill, its j savings have averaged all the way from ! S to 96 per cent. He says that ship- 1 merits will be increased during Sep- : tember. j |