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Show HVE PATCH K IC0i!,K F!l ORE Three Short Tunnels and Incline Shaft Driven During Dur-ing Past Year. An iiilei-eftinj; report of rcent .level opiii. iiM on the ruperty of the I'm' I'at. Ii Allies Mm. -, company, near li; c I'iilch, Ncv., Uii him. -ht to Sal! I.al.e ye-.;cr.lay l.y l-ciciary A. I Imine iiion his return Irom an in-pction ot the company's hoUinx. Three hort tunnels ami in line shiift liave liucn ilrivcn on the property ..luring tiie .ast vear, an.l ill ce ll ol ihe wwrkinss M r. Inilnc rep.iite.l, oud ore i-huvwna lia'.e b, en en. ounterc.i. "The Hye Pat. ;i A;ns group of three claims a.ljoins the tamous oM Hye I'at. h property on the north, an.l, a. cor.iinj to the opinion of the management, tin-Alpha tin-Alpha an. I Silver Hell fi-ure?, whi.h vio I.lc. I millioni in the early day.-., penetrate pene-trate the Allien jroup. The longest tunnel tun-nel ii in ahout suty-tive f.'-t, ami shoots of ore hae Lecn encounter."! which viel.le.i from 2." to li) ounces t- i I -ver. Mr. Iiul:ie reports. The other two tunnels are in forty-five forty-five f.et an l twenty teet, respectively, an.l the in. line -h.ii't is down seventy-five seventy-five feet. In the lorty l'ive foot tunnel Mr. In.lrie reports that ore shoots have been cut which ave asinv values or Id ouii. es mIvit, while in the l.ottom ol tiie incline a two and a half foot vein has been cut whi.'h has yielded a-iay alitei of t) to '2.1 oiiu.-es siKer. In the shorfe-t tunnel some minerali'ie.l formations havp been encoiintered but no nsavs hsve I-een made as yet. Prac-ticallv Prac-ticallv all the sample-, aayej have con-taiiici con-taiiici yold. from a trace to i?l.V. Three men are now at work iu the !one-t tunnel, whi.-h i l.ein run with a icw to cuttini; the A'pHa and Silver Hell figure syt'-ms. A niore vigorous, canipaiu'it of de'. elopm.-nt is planned in the spring, hut work on the iropetv is to be continued throughout the win'er. The .jt net in which the live Patch Aenes is lo-'ate-l contains other i.m;eus old troperties besides the Rye Pai.'h. whi. h is now he'ii- reot.ne.l under the sjerviion of K. ii. ";ihrenkamp of Salt Lake. Amon;? the other properties of note in the e.-tion are the Q-ueen ot Sh.'ha. from which it is aerte 1 tiie Ilciirt fortune originated, the Arizona and the lml.ty. The lmla- also is be-inj be-inj reopened under Mr. VahrenJ-iamp 's dire.-tion, and a l'J-too mill is being erected to treat the vast tonnage of low-rii'ie ore wh'. h was ah.andoned bv the oriciital. The Acnes is situated about three miles from the railroad. |