Show Mining Financial Commercial News EXPANSION PLANNED AT RAFT RIVER MINE John Matson president of the Littie Little Lit Lit- tle tie May Mining company announces that with the granting of a lease to lo J. J T T. Brimhall and two associates the Raft River mine of the company in Box Elder county Mil be worked downstairs as well as up upstairs In sinking an inclined from flom the upper tunnel Axel Anderson has hns taken out a carload of gold ore oro estimated estimated esti esti- mated to carry better than an ounce to the ton At 70 feet feel the streak Is holding strong though water is beginning be ginning to make trouble Mr Brimhall has selected a a. two two- inch fissure about feet from the portal of the lower tunnel for devel devel- Though scarcely more than thana a seam the fissure is said to carry ore running as much as three and one half ounces in gold to the the- ton Its strike corresponds with the trend of the vein in which Anderson is work work- ing Following the signing of the new lease Mr Matson proposes to drive a new tunnel on a horizon midway between the upper and lower adits to improve the ventilation of the upper tunnel and carry off the water encountered in the Anderson incline |