Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-09-25 | Page 20 | Raft River Crew Fixes for Digging

I AH G EW FIXES F DIGGING Within a few days the force of miners at the Raft River property ol of f the Little May lIay Mining comp company ny wU will be tearing Into ito the ground gound in search of ot ore President John Matson of the Litle Littie Lit Lit- tie te le May has a letter leter from Superintendent Gus Gu Malmberg stating that thata tat tata a truck bearing men and supplies arrIved at nt the Raft River mine near Park valley valey in good shape shap and the themen themen themen men were already busy bus repairing the cabins abins in which they will wl live lve durin dur- dur du- du duIng in Ing ng the winter Little Lile time will wl be required to tomake tomake tomake make the buildings s livable Inis Tais ac ac- the energies o of the crew will wn be devoted dc to the opening of the he foot 1200 lower tunnel now in inaccessible inaccessible inaccessible in- in accessible by reason of an earth eath fall faU fallat fallat at the portal There may be other caves but the best information ob- ob tamable from rom timers old leads Mr Matson Maton to believe that these are arc ae not extensive One of ot the most favorable indIa indica- indica tons ions at the Raft Raf River Rive according to Mr Matson is the character of ot the material on ott the dump of ot the lower tunnel thrown there apparently as waste waste It I must have been condemned on its it looks look for when tested by assay assay as as- say j it i yields values from front good to t very high hleb If I the same class elas of ore was passed up in the tunnel workings there ought to be exposed now the making of some excellent AS Assays Qs Q's running running run run- rn ning as ns high as 1100 BOO have ha been obtained ob ob- ob tamed from large dump samples