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Show 5118 li H TUiafflTES Passing Through Iron Bedding Bed-ding Indicates Proximity to Body of Ore. In the lonpr tunnel of the Alta Tunnel & Transportation company a change Is occurring which the management regards as of the greatest Importance, and each round of shots is being watched with keen interest. Following a drive through very soluole white lime, that has carried more or less iron for more than 100 feet, a big iron bedding, heavily mineralized, was encountered a few days aso. This bedding, which has now been cut through. Is live and one-half feet thick and has every indication of being extensive. exten-sive. Beyond it the drillers are again in the white lime, showing much green and brown, coloring and carrying scattered iron. While the bedding is not commercial ore. the management considers it virtually virtu-ally certain that where the bedding strikes the next vertical fissure, which is only a short distance ahead, an important impor-tant body of shipping oe will be found. As this vertical fissure has had much high-grade ore. on upper levels, it is believed be-lieved that under the extremely favorable favor-able conditions that have now been shown to exist at depth, the finding of equally valuable deposits may confidently be expected in ground near at hand. The force at the tunnel has been increased in-creased to two shifts regularly and good progress Is being made. After the cutting cut-ting of the vein which is now being approached, ap-proached, a succession of fissures will be reached at short distances through the next T00 feet, and as all these have revealed re-vealed rich ore bodies on upper levels, the company is expecting not merely. one such body, but a s-erics of important strikes, and all within the next few months. |