Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 41 | Alta Tunnel has Cut New Fissure

ALTA TUNNEL HAS CUT NEW FISSURE Development of Property Has Been Pushed in Spite of Bad Weather. Another contact fissure has just been encountered in the Alta Tunnel in the Silver Fork of Big Cottonwood, according accord-ing to advices received by telephone at j the local office. , Although handicapped by frequent interruptions in-terruptions of the electric power owing to storms and a shortage of labor, the foreman in charge has driven the bore thirty-five feet beyond the contact reported re-ported a short time ago and penetrated another fault almost identical in appearance ap-pearance with the first. The contact is between white and blue lime, the two formations being separated by a thin selvage of gangue matter from" half an inch to two inches in thickness. 1 The blue lime comes in on the far side of the fault and then gives place to a white lime formation standing almost vertical. The recurrence of this pecu-liar condition con-dition at points only thirty-five feet apart is very interesting to the officials of the company, and Manager T. V. Bodfish is anxious to make a personal inspection of the work. Having been in California and Nevada for three weeks he has not had an opportunity to see either of the contacts. He intends in-tends to go to the mine as soon as road conditions permit. The difficulties of travel are responsible respon-sible for the slow progress of the work, as it has been impossible to get miners over the soft snow to the tunnel. The most important development recently, re-cently, apart from the two -contacts, has been a heavy increase in the flow of water from the tunnel. This is another an-other indication that the boTe is getting get-ting into open and probably ore-bearing ground.