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Show Canyon Mines to Be Opened at Depth Most Important Campaign of llcu-l-opnient Ku-r Unilertakcn In Cnn. yon' History lo Il(. Commciiced the Coming Week. J. W. Storrs, lien Fnrror, Ucrt Mll-lor Mll-lor and II. H. Green, tho latter being city auditor for Salt Lako City, spent tho forepart of tho week Inspecting the mines In American Fork Canyon. Ulr, Storrs Is secretary of tho Day State property, where tho recent striko was made, and Mr. Green's chief pur-poso pur-poso In making tho trip was to personally per-sonally Inspect the Hay Stntc with tho object, it his Inspection was satisfactory, satisfac-tory, of taking over a block of 150,000 shares of tho company's treasury Btock nnd putting sovcral thousand dollars Into tho treasury, all of which will be used for development purposes. Mr. Green Is somewhat of a mining man himself. In common with his associates, somo of whom, wcro down lust wock, ho thinks a good deal of tho canyon prospects, nnd Indications aw that they will back up their Judgment Judg-ment with a liberal supply of cash. lUrcnt returns showed that, tho oro from tho now Btrlko nssayB 30 por cent lead, 28.4 ounces in silver and 40 cents gold per ton. . Enough development work has been dono on tho Bay Stato striko to provo that the oro Is going down on a truo fissure. Tho probable courso will bo to glnto the old Tyler tunnel, and by pushing it in sixty or seventy-live feel further;'.fntcrcpt,3io'fVclftr n a depth of soventy-flvo feet lower than Us present workings. .Fronrthls point profiting wlU'vbe tlHA-botyJjvcis and a determination' may bo arrived at as to wholhor tho proposition Is n mine or a prospect. k Tho most Important transaction In a long tlmo nffcctlng canyon prospects ' wna tho deal consummated tlila wool: between Peter Miller, representing a Bingham syndlcnt, and tho Pacific Mining & Milling Company, whereby tho lnttcr loases tho Pacific mine to tho Blughamltcs for a period or Ave years or longer. The papers uro alt In Mr. Miller's nnmo. Mr, Miller Is a minor of wldo oxperlenco In nearly nil of tho western states und will uso this oxporlonco In proving tho possibilities possi-bilities of tho canyon. Ho sayB that all of tho work so far dono In tho canyon can-yon does not prove anything. All tho mining so fnr has been In tho enr-bouato enr-bouato ore-grass root mining. While this system may tako out bodies or sovoral thousand tons of- ore, yet It novor has proven up n canjp in any state. Tho permanent bodies necessarily neces-sarily must lie in a baser state at a greator depth. So far no mining hns been dono In American Fork at a greater depUi than 150 feet. Mr. Miller will go up tho canyon at tho beginning of tho week with- n force of ton men and commence sinking in the lowest wlngo in tho vein. This is In tho upper tunnel, and the bottom bot-tom of tho wlngo Iuib u depth of about 150 feet from tho surface. If ho finds that tho supply of wntor makes it Inconvenient In-convenient to continue work In this placo ho will put a force at work ox-ondlng ox-ondlng tho lowor tunnel illl It Intercepts Inter-cepts tho vein. Hy continuing this tunnel 500 foot it may bo counted on Intercepting tho llssuro at a depth of about 250 feet. If then tho pro shows tho expected values, work will then be continued on down, oven if machinery becomes necessary to tako caro of 1110 wntor. Mr. Miller does not count on taking out any oro for marketing for olght or ton months. Ills chief concern con-cern will be to prove whotber tho Paoino Is a mlno or not. If the bodies of low grado oro aro Hiifllclontly largo to Justify ho Is prepared to lustnll a $25,000 reduction plant noxt spring. Of. course If hlgh.grudo oro bodlos arc oncountorcd thoy will tako caro or . . ' t&' themsches. When tho UinghnmlwJ pi through tho old Pacific w 1 hW e! ,wr. l ,W,U ,mvo ,,PC dcmon.W ed that It Is not one. .' jj Hip old pudiic has tho most w$ mlHlng fissure or miy propoHy IiiBJ canyon Bo 11t tho Vork to bo "dSi 011 It during the coming summer CT h L'"T ''"I'ortniico than any uJfl haB ever been dono heretofore, 35 |