Show ALA ALTA COW CON NOW MOM MAKING GOOD PROGRESS FOR BIG MINING MIMING Th The Tho Alta AHa Consolidated Is making rapid progress In getting things In shape for n it season of large largo development development develop develop- ment and for COI mining on a largo large e scale Fourteen inches of ot snow has fallen during durin the last Int thus thoM thu rc re re trl surface work oik causing ln I de delay e. e lay in trenching for the line air air lne from the Wasatch Mines compressor plant Tie The is melting rapid rapidly however and ami the work will wi be b resumed with wih a larger force of oC laborers Monday Tho The developments de underground are arc going ahead at a R rapid rat rate The Th face of oC No 0 2 east cast cst shaft shott thirty five t c feet teet c bo the main tunnel level shows six Mix Inches of oC ore running 40 0 to tho the ton There also is three feet of oC low how grade late material that looks promising In No 0 3 east drift seventy se feet above No 2 tho the bl big porphyry dyke ilyko Is being fol- fol lo ed with it a full cun breast brast of oC or ore averaging averaging aver aver- aging 15 to the ton Some Somo seams seam are encountered of oC high grade gae ore General Geneal Manager Ian el Jacobson feels confident confident con con- that these workings are nrc within a I snort distance of oC the great creat Matilda ore bod body and he looks for big developments develop develop- ments here within ti u few Cew lays days ras He made the following statement yesterday Wo We ore are making every effort to get the line air air lne finished so s as aa to be bo able to put In machine drills I have sent terms UI up lp to do the so RO that we m may get the line lne laid at the earliest st possible moment moment The new nOW fall fal of oC snow sno no nohaR has haR retarded surface operations somewhat or but hut we hOl hope to 10 resume work v i an un Increased force of men by Sunday The Tho line lino lne will wi be ho about abolt five thousand feet long Iong consisting of ot four- four Inch pl e We e have ha e signed d nell up a contract contract con con- tract with vIti wih the Wasatch Mines com company pan to furnish us air from Its Is compressor or plant and the supply will wi be sufficient to run machine drills In all al faces throughout the mine We Vc should be ablo 0 o 0 make connection within ten days dy Ir Ie there Is 19 no further dela delay on account account account ac ac- count of oC f snowstorms We will wi Immediately Install three machine machine- drills In the eastern estern section of oC th mine mile and ant push both east drifts as as possible while one ono drill rl will wi b be In sloping We Ve will wi also put one machine drill dri to work in the ho west vest drift on the lie Braine fissure where thero there is il a good showing of oC sulphide ore Wo We will wi run rUI a branch line lino Ino down to tho pOI 0 tel tal of oC the lie Alfred tunnel and will wi roon oon have a machine drill dri running In Inthe Inthe inthe the face nce which Is In about sixteen hundred feet feet Six hundred feet reat will wi carr carry It I to the Braine fissure where It will wi give gh additional backs of oC six elx hun hun- tired dred fret feet below the tho main tunnel level When we reach the fissure a adrift adrift drift will wi bo run to the kast ast along tho the twelve hundred feet feat to open OIJen up th the hl big bis bedded vein on that level Wo also intend to resume work worl with wih n mad mad Int drills dris In the old ol Brooklyn tunnel tunnel bunnel tun bun nel which tapped tho the fissure about aboul e eight ht hundred feet Ceet west rest of the tho present workings In the eastern section o of the mine and nd about one hundred and Ind tC fifty lift feet above tho the main tunnel level level levelVa We Va mined about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of oC ore In th the tho workings connected with wih the Brooklyn tunnel tunnel A raise was put up tip fifty tey feet and a was tas sunk seventy feet feel awl ami ali both hoth are arc in good Gool ore The ore- ore shoot ii Is I about one hundred and fifty feet fett Ion long and we will vill wi get a good goot fC tonnage tonnage ton ton- nage from that section of or the mine |