Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-31 | Page 14 | Has Great Faith in American Fork

m mi faith " IN AW FORK General Manager of Earl Eagle Says Numerous Mines Will Produce. With absolute confidence in the immediate, im-mediate, bright future of the American Folk canyon district, C. V. Earl, general gen-eral manager of the Earl Eagle mine, who is iu the citv for a few dtivs ou business, talked yesterday of the developments de-velopments at his own property and the splendid showing being made "by many other properties of the district. At the Earl Eagle the main tunnel is now in 020 feet, the company is working work-ing seven men and early in April will put on a second shift, just as soon as the necessary air pipe can be installed, fiome time ago three feet of irou sulphides sul-phides were encountered, and after a few weeks of progress the miners have cut a cross fissure of quartz, the value of which has not yet been determined. 1 The objective ore-bearing fissure lor ! which the company is driving is still about 250 feet ahead, but with the putting put-ting on of the extra shift the rate of progress will bo at least doubled, and it is anticipated that the ore will be readied Within Q nnTnnn.nflv.l,, ,.1 . . ......... 1. .uu.j'ainuvcn BUUU time. Speaking of other properties in the district that are now under active development, de-velopment, Mr. Earl said that he was convinced that the Bellerophou, Whirlwind, Whirl-wind, Miller Hill, Texan, Pacific and Mineral Flat would all be advantageously advantageous-ly heard from before the end of the year. He also declares that with the melting of the mountain snows the prospecting pros-pecting will be increased many fold.