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Show PUB Hi 01 It .is confidently believed by men interested inter-ested in the enterprise that work on a large scale will soon start in the.Tuls canyon placer field. It is planned to start work at a point one mile south of where prospecting shafts ' recently were sunk and drive a tunnel 1500 feet to bedrock. The slope of the canyon is such that bedrock can be reached In 1500 feet with a tunnel of proyjer grade for placer mining. After crosscuts have been driven to drain -the bedrock for a distance of about 200 feet, so that gravel can be started through the flume as soon as possible and the work placed on a paying basis, the tunnel will be continued along the bedrock until the point, where the prospecting shafts were sunk Is reached. A flume twenty-four inches square will be carried under the track in the tunnel and there will be an ample, supply of water to rill this. After th6 tunnel has been advanced to the shafts, which are sunk almost at the northern end of the five-mile etretch of claims owned by the company, the ground will be permitted to cave if only the pay streak is worked. Working the gravel through to the surface is also under consideration, con-sideration, as the entire overburden, above the pay streak has produced good assays. According to Al Borcherding. one of the men interested in the company and who understands the placer mining possibilN ties of the canyon thoroughly, the overburden over-burden above the pay streak is from forty-live to Sixty feet thick, assaying as high as 50 cents per yard. Borcherding says the pay streak assays $3 per yard where he has uncovered it. Water lies on the bedrock to a iepth of several feet across the entire width of the canyon, making It an ideal field for placar mining. min-ing. Goldfield (Not.) Tribune. |