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Show or bedded condition was found dipping toward the east. Some ore was found, extending almost to the 200-foot point, while at 165 feet three feet of high-grade high-grade copper ore was found, replacing the limestone. As more depth was the desire of the management, no exploration explora-tion work was done, though a station was cut at 200 feet, and a crosscut extended ex-tended toward the cast a short distance. dis-tance. The face of the crosscut shows stringers of high-grade ore, though sufficient suf-ficient work to reach the 165 foot ore body lias not been done. This week the shaft cut a northeast-southwest northeast-southwest vein, which, according to some indications, may be the Helmet vein. This vein may prove to be one of a number extending into Extension company ground from the large ore deposits de-posits of the Western Utah Copper company com-pany property, through which, according to reports of several mining engineers, those big deposits were enriched. If so, similar conditions and other ore deposits de-posits of large size may be discovered when the Mogul shaft is deepened. The Extension company surface equipment is equal to the best in. the district, but for deep operations in the Mogul shaft, and for a shaft it is proposed pro-posed to sink in the Helmet vein, hoists of greater capacity will be required. The company has an air compressor of 300 cubic feet capacity, and machine drills are in service in all workings. A compressor building, blacksmith shop, storehouse, boarding house and half a dozen cabins for housing employees comprise the buildings of the company village, situated on the National claim, and near the portal of No. 1 tunnel. The company has been employing seventeen seven-teen to twenty men, and the force will be increased as development operations in No. 1 tunnel workings are advanced. EXTENSION DEVELOPS ILMETVEIN STRIKE Good Showing Encountered in Mogul Shaft; New Equipment Required. GOLD HILL, May 4. Interest in the remarkable discovery of ore made last week in the property of the Western Utah Extension Copper company continues con-tinues unabated in tie district " while further work has disclosed additional width of the vein matter, and more layers of fine ore. The discovery was made in the Helmet vein at the depth of 210 feet vertically below the surface through tunnel No'. 1, and 110 feet ver-ticallv ver-ticallv lower than the elevation of tunnel tun-nel No. 2, in which the same vein and ore shoot was opened' last year. What makes the discovery in tunnel Xo. 1 of the greatest importance, not only to the Extension company, but to owners of other mining property in this district, is the fact that it occurs in the altered granitic formation, and that the depth gained is the greatest yet reached in. the formation in any mine in the district. This fact is regarded as proof that the Helmet vein mav be expected to have great depth, and 'that the ore bodies will prove persistent. Further grounds for these expectations are to be found in the winze sunk from tunnel No. 1, in which the vein was followed to the depth of eighty feet, and found to contain a strong shoot of ore. At the terminus of the Deen Creek railroad spur, about half a mile from the portal of No. 1 tunnel, a loading station was constructed some time ago such was the confidence of the management man-agement that such facilities would be needed, while near the end of the dump at the tunnel rfortal a bin to receive ore from the mine has been constructed. As the ore is trammed from the mine it will be dumped over a screen onto a sorting platform, for the present, until un-til the values of the fines can be determined. deter-mined. As far as the big ore body has been explored, the hard ore carries the best copper content, while some of the soft ore is a good grade, and some, probably, will not pay to ship. This can be established only by screening the ore. and systematically sampling and assaying the fines. An assay outfit has been secured and will be installed in an office at the mine, so accurate record can be kept of ore Values. Tn the Mogul shaft conditions for dis-covering dis-covering another ore-bearing zone are good, and such a discovery anv dav will not be surprising. The shaft is about 275 feet deep, and good progress is being made. At 300 feet a station will probably be cut, and from it a level will be run. depending, however, on what conditions are found in the next tweutv-five feet of sinking. The Mol'uI shaft is designed to prospect pros-pect the Mogul claim, and the ore-hearing fissures that extend from the property prop-erty of the Western Utah Copper com-nany com-nany into the Extension company holdings. hold-ings. The shaft was started near the north sideline of the Mogul claim. ;nst below the west of a wide, lime filled ; fissure, and in grano-diorite. In the limestone, at about 150 feet from the collar of the shaft, a stratified |