Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-04-19 | Page 9 | Second Payment to be Made on Alta Mine Properties

I SECOND PAYMENT TO TOBE TOB B BE ON OM ALIA II PROPERTIES n The second payment on the Copper Prince group grup of or claims in Alta Ala will wH be mado made tomorrow tomono b by the thA Michigan cr crowd w which is back bak of oC a a big mining project In that camp While the purchase price has not been made public It I Is said to torn torun torun run rn well cl Into five f c figures and largo large pa payments pay pay- ments meats are being made each time these I Installments Instalments fall Cal due Some powerful financial interests are ore said MId to be back hack of ot this big merger project project which has for tor Its Is object th the consolidation consolidation con con- of City Rocks Continental Copper Prince and a number o of the thc big I mineral bearing groups of ot claims in Alta AHa I Tho The people back of ot It I Include some foreigners for tor eigners elers who have ha had the properties to 0 tobo tobo bo be taken into the combination expert ed and are relying upon the report of their en engineers who ho claim that thal the camp contains some omo Immense oro ore bodien which can cnn bo ho mined profitably for years to to come It will wi require the tho outlay of ofa ofa ofa a great deal to oper operate te the properties Inthe in tho the most advantageous way a and these people are said to t be fully tull prepared to have this work done It I will i require a big engineering feat to those high mountains and get get et to the thc mineral deposits at great depth To cope with the thc situation it is planned to drive a a long tunnel which Is 18 Iso isto to o be b started at ot a point pint which will wi place placeit It t outside the tho section and In n fact tact the tho portals of or this bi big bit channel are ar to be a safe distance from the S section see sec Ion tion ton that Is visited b by heavy hea snowfalls The tunnel is to be of or large dimensions so o that It I can bo ho double and a large ergo flume fume put under the tracks to carr carry be off or ft a encountered heavy hevy water ater fo flow which is sure suro to The Tho start for tunnel work may bo be somewhere some some- where near Tanners Tanner's Taner's flat fiat This will wi re- re r. r duco uco tho the cost of haulage considerably as a the he cars are arc to bo be prop propelled led by electricity and tho the power will wm be furnished b by the tho water ater that is developed While tho the ct Is an on Immense undertaking thoro there is every assurance of ot its being successful as a an all engineers a agree ree that th there r Is an almost Inexhaustible supply of ot ores In Alta AHa The proposed channel will wi cut these hese oro ore bodies at a 0 depth of ot several era thousand housand feet from rota the surface and an Alta Ala should hould eventually become one of the lIest producing s sections In Utah