Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-06-08 | Page 8 | Ore Surprised Them

silver and copper . values, averaging 'better than $70 per ton. This showing at this .point was not anticipated, consequently con-sequently it is all the more gratifying. The management had calculated that the tunnel would have to be driven a distance of 600 feet to catch the contact, con-tact, while the' or ' uncovered in this channel ts only abdut half this distance from the portals of the tunnel. This would Indicate that the management has succeeded in opening a large- ore body that will evidently prove very. rich as the cut approaches the main ore body that was exposed In' the shaft dropped down from the surface. . The company has a well located property, prop-erty, comprising twenty-three claims, on an easy grade from the railroad station sta-tion that precludes the possibility of an excessive freight haul. There is an abundance of wood and water, a large amount of which the company has already al-ready corraled. while part of the road Is used by the traction engine that is operated by the Utah eV Eastern Copper Cop-per company in the haul from the mine at St. George to the smelting plant at Shem City. ' , ORE SURPRISED THEM. . Located Just seventeen miles from Acoma. Nev., on the Utah side of the line is the properties of the Beaver Dam Mountain Mining company, owned by B. F. Caffey and associates of this city. The property is being developed de-veloped under the persopal supervision of A D. MacLean, a man of wide ex-perience ex-perience in the mining business, and who was -among the early operators of the famous Annie Laurie mine on Gold mountain. . In a letter to W. A. Wallace of this city Mr. MacLean writes that in driving driv-ing the tunnel to get under the ore that was exposed In the shaft he has cut a vein four feet In width, which camp assays as-says reveal a good percentage of gold,