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Show CON. COPPER NEARS CONTACT, IS BELIEF Formation at Tunnel Face About Half Lime and Half Quartzite. The quartzite, in the face of the American Amer-ican Consolidated Copper tunnel is steadily giving wayto lime, and some important im-portant developments are expected at the property within tho next few days, according ac-cording to word brought down from the mine yesterday by Manager L. L. Smith. Small streaks of lime appeared in the quartzite about twenty feet back of the present tunnel face, and the amount of Tme has increased steadily until now the formation in the tunnel face is about half lime and half quartzite. Mr. Smith is confident that the contact, the objective of the tunnel, is not far distant. Basing his calculations upon the change within the last twenty feet, he is of the opinion that the contact should be cut In another twenty to twenty-rive feet. The seams in the tunnel face all carry mineral, and the lime now being cut is liberally splotched with mineral. The formation is gradually becoming softer as the work progresses. |