Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-01-01 | Page 33 | More Ore Found in Alta Tunnel

i I I MORE ORE r UNU IN Al TA TUNNEL Visible Resources of Mine in Big Cottonwood District District Dis Dis- District Dis- Dis Are Increased From t ten n IncItes inches to two feet of first class clan ore V ni In the fissure has been added to the tho Big visible resources resoUrces of the Alta Tunnel In Cotto wot d district by the tho development development develop- develop ment l work of t th the tho last ten days accord accord- log Ing r-oi r to telephone one reports from the mine Galena chlorides aI and add d bromide all appear In the streak that has come Into the top of the Intermediate raise ralso at a height o at of seventy feet Thet above the tunnel level SuperIntendent SuperIntendent Super Super- Johnson declares In talking to I the local office that there would be good money In III drifting on the tho fissure at the present level lIe He will however continue the raise to the foot toot level and connect there with the No 3 raise In order to fac- fac the handling of the ore from the tha big bed above Very ery little sloping has been required to Keep the ore bins full while the ore teams have nave been breaking roads and celebrating holidays After loading out twenty five tons last Thursday Mr lr Johnson was still more than one hundred tons ahead of the ore haulers Tho The teamsters are laying ot off for New ew Years Year's day but will all return to the mine Monday morning The roads are now In fair condition and It will take moro more than an un ordinary storm to stop the movement move move- ment of ore even for tor a a. I. I day Manager states that the gross value of the ore shipped In opening up the first In the tunnel Is about and the stops slope Is not fully opened yet Its total length to date Is about eighty feet and its maximum width forty feet There Is standing ore he adds on every ovary side The miners have extracted only such quan titles as could be handled through one small raise and over a light track It will vIll take two or ox three months to get things in shape for tor a quantity output Since the middle of September when the first discovery was made the management has been working hard and fast to com corn various necessary Improvements In preparation for winter Ore bins had to be constructed the miners' miners quarters en en- barged supplies laid In and the roadway widened These things s have been done and a large stable for the accommodation ot of ore teams has been constructed In the main canyon below the mine Heavy rails are being hauled for a new track In the tunnel which will be laid when the water flow ceases When the new track is In place the tha property will be splendidly equipped for tor or economical production and Mr Bodfish promises the stockholders will be bo shown what their mine ruins can do