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Show OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT i 1 Rich Ore Being Piled Up; I Big Body of Shipping 1 Ore Opened. First definite and authuntic news of tiie recent iji-oKross mado at tho Wood-lawn, Wood-lawn, In Big Cottonwood cannon, during the last ten days, was made public yesterday yes-terday when It. i. Hack, consulting and mining engineer, who mado a special trlii to tho mine two weeks ago to study conditions, returned to tho city Monday night. Mr. iMack completed an underground under-ground survoy of existing conditions and was alile to apeak with accuracy o( developments de-velopments Rt the present time. Characterizing I he results of the campaign cam-paign as conducted at tiie mine this year as being both substantial and gratifying, Die engineer explained that the main working tunnel lias now reached a distance dis-tance of Mf.ti.O feet, and that at 121' feet In, after passing a small copper lisBiire worthy of prospecting, the first cross break had been encountered. In this was found a "pipe" of ore, 4x4 feet, with lead-silver values approximating J 160 per ton or belter. About ten tons of oro havo been taken from tills "pipe' and it. Is still being worked at convenient conven-ient Intervals. Proceeding In a distance of twenty-eight feet further, a big "fissure "fis-sure was cut. showing from thirty to forty feet of good sloping ground, with about six feet of good shipping oro on the hanging wall. On tills fissure the drilt has been .continued east for a distance of K7 feet, and is in ore all the way. At i 1290 feet in the tunnel cut the zinc fissure, fis-sure, and there is only twenty-seven feet further to drive until tho Intersection of this fault fissure and the zinc fissure will , be reached. The face of the tunnel, said Mr. Mack, Is now In a soluble lime, and in 100 feet farther will reach the Grizzly fissure, which is known as one of the best producers pro-ducers of ore in the famous old camp, "t am of the opinion," said Mr. Mack, "that, the Woodlawn's progress will be shortly heard from in a very substantial substan-tial manner." |