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Show AMERICAN CON. TO INSTALL AIR DRILLS L. I. Smith, general manager of the American Consolidated Copper company, the property of which is located In Big Cottonwood canyon, said yesterday at the conclusion ol a directors' meeting that it had been decided to install air drills. Mr. Smith said that the ore in the newly new-ly opened body on the raise now up between be-tween forty-five and fifty feet was growing grow-ing strong and more valuable as development develop-ment progressed. The manager stated that the required equipment could be secured in Salt Lake and the date of placing it in operation would be Just as soon as the equipment could be hauled to the mine and installed. in-stalled. The air drill will, said Mr. Smith, enable the miners to make much more rapid progress than has been possible heretofore. |