| Show r NT ANA BINGHAM MAKES BONANZA I ORE STRIKE SRI E great Ireat Body Is Developed on Both Mayflower and HL Fortuna Veins m I Recent development operations by the Bingham t Bingham na-Bingham Consolidated Mining t pany any Indicate that the company Is Pe Wing g one of the greatest and richest r T odies bodles ever disclosed in the Bingham 1st t and that its Us financial success Is bS tely assured Tl e company owns or controls the theddie i dT group of four tour patented claims the rt a group of ot twenty-three twenty claims the Thrush claim ad comprising more morelan lanten lan ten acres and which underlies the W Bingham In addition the com com- ft n. lease and option on the Ti- Ti aukee group of ten claims in Bing- Bing un canyon The Montana Bingham transportation I id drainage df tunnel has its portal near leI northwest corner of the Eddie group fifty feet of the Denver jf Rio rande rands railroad and is driven on a course through the Eddie roup coup thence traversing the Bingham Copper company group and Consolidated Mining com- com mys ground round to the r Fortuna group of aims This Tins tunnel crosscuts the Eddie and leveland veins of the Eddie group the Glance and veins of the Amalgamated group the Conr Con Con- r veins of group the Ches- Ches vein of the Keystone Ex- Ex company group and and the Sierra 7 it 1 11 I to Grande the Fortuna and the Mayflower veins of the Fortuna group All AU of these veins are crossed at nearly nearly nearly near near- ly right angles by this tunnel the strike or courses of the veins being northwesterly northwesterly northwesterly north north- westerly and southwesterly and dipping to the northwest at an angle of about 23 degrees The present resent length of this tunnel or orthe orthe orthe the distance from the portal to the Mayflower Mayflower May May- flower vein is 55 0 feet The Montana- Montana Bingham company has transportation contracts with th the different mining companies companies com corn panics mentioned al also has a large stock and mining Interest in the the United Bingham Bingham Bing- Bing ham Copper company former formerly Bingham Bingham Bing- Bing ham Amalgamated and an option of purchase on the Fortuna group The object object object ob ob- ob- ob of extending this tunnel to the Fortuna Fortuna Fortuna For For- tuna series of veins was to develop and mine the ore bodies known to exist in inthe inthe inthe the Fortuna mine workings and exposed in the Freedom Keystone and Contention Contention Contention Conten Conten- tion tunnels on that property the Fortuna Fortuna For For- tuna workings being feet vertically and 1400 feet on the dip or slope dope of the veins above the Montana BIngham tunnel horizon As these Fortuna ore ora bodies rake or drag to the south along these veins it was necessary to develop them to drive drifts southwesterly along these veins from this tunnel The ore now developed In the Fortuna mine workings both on the Mayflower and Fortuna veins estimated as over I one million tons of an average 2 per cent copper will be mined and made available available avail avail- able to the transportation tunnel when these workings are connected by raises with this tunnel The present showing or ore development in this No 2 south Mayflower l drift is attracting a great deal of attention from mining men and the indications are that this ore body will prove one One of the big bonanzas bOdY of the Bingham district The company contemplates installing an electric system so as to facilitate the handling of ore as under the present mule It is Impossible imPossible impossible Im im- possible to handle a big tonnage and that Is why practically no sloping Isnow is isnow isnow now being done in this body of ore The development work and mine op operations operations operations op- op are under the direct supervision of J. J Benton Leggat mining engineer and a a. mine operator of twenty-eight twenty years' years experience In the Butte Nevada and Utah mining districts and he Is ably assisted at the mine by Harry Bowman Bowman Bow Dow man who has been mine foreman of the Montana Bingham for the past four I years and whose mining experience Inthe in inthe inthe the Bingham district as well wall as other I Utah mining districts qualifies qualities him high- high Iv lv ton for this position I u |
