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Show sv EARL EAGLE MAKES la s FAVORABLE REPORTS nt ,J Showing in Pace of Tiuuiel Indicates Proximity of So'ught-for fl Body of Ore. )rl 7 f AMERICAN FORK, May 24 Miners who came down from tho Earl liagle a j few davs ajo for supplies and have re-y re-y turned to the property were able to go r 1 through to the Silver Lake Fiat with the wagon, and from there on were 111 ibli(ted to pack ihem on horses on ac- count of thcro being places in the road n still blocked with snow. It will prob-i,' prob-i,' ably bo about two weeks before teams tel can. be taken through to the mine. Manager George Hemphill went up pe this week, taking with him Engineer el Burton, who made a survoy of the Jo workings in the tunnel. From the ln-k. ln-k. dications in the face of the tunnel, e which is becoming more mineralized at every round of shots, tho miners are iJ getting close to the voin and it is ex-,i ex-,i peeled that some good news will be . '4 coming from the Karl Eagle in the li near future. tc President J. L. Craig of Salt Iake, er Secretary H. C. Johnson and .lames 5 Ohipman, Jr., treasurer of the Pacific, , i made a trip to the mine Sunday. Thev t.v report everything as satisfactory, both or as to the mil' and tho mine. The mill is turning out about twenty tons of ' first class lead concentrates per day. liL At present teams aro hauling the ore and concentrates through from the mine la to tho railroad tracks, but arrangements have , been made to erect bins at -Hol-f man 's Hat and excavation for the build-E build-E ing. of these bins lias already been started. Robert Erickson. manager oi the Smuggler mine on Pittsburg hill, took a foTce of miners to the property Thursday Thurs-day and started work on the tunnel, wtiich is being driven to cut the contact 6 about 186 feet ahead. The men have P taken a contract to drive 100 feet and when this is finished another ono will be let to drive it'iwi to the objective unless tho ore is encountered before. Tt is expected that porphyry dike will be cut in about twenty feet and the , ehances for ore making here are favorable. favor-able. The fissure for which they are driving is the Pittsburg fissure, which cuts through their property almost the entire length and where it is probable that they will cut it on the Smuggler 4 ground. |