Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-24 | Page 6 | Reeds Peak Tunnel is in Formation That Shows Minerals

I REEDS PEAK TUNNEl IS IN IM SHOWS S MINERALS MIERAS Latest ad advices vices from the Reeds needs Peak tunnel Is that the face Is showing heavy mi and some ome specks of chlorides ar are found in i the where It Is cracked cracked and seamed This Is taken by some t to be indisputable evidence evidence evi evi- dence hence that the workings are approaching an ore body and that the workings may open open Into some permanent deposit with almost any round of ot boles Some of the big interests In Reeds Peak are of ot the opinion that the they will I Inot not encounter the same Iame character of ore oreas oreas as tl that of found tile the Cardiff in tile the company 0 neighboring rITte They properties prop prop- rg be believe be- be lieve tl that lt the ore are may not lot even be found In the contact but that It H will wilt b be found In paying quantities ii In the fissures and that it will be a high grade silver sliver and copper ore According r g to the tha reports submitted here the geology of the country has been en Jen care carefully tully studied and it is shown that three welt well defined fissures traverse travene the Reeds Peak ground round It is Is- believed that these fissures have been the source of th the ore in the adjoining ground and the tite surveys show that the first of ot these fissures fissures fissures fis fis- fis- fis should be caught at a suitable depth by the the- time the tile present tunnel 1 has been driven a distance of ot feet fent This TillS working now is very near this tills point and the management Is hopeful of ot important important im im- im- im results soon Boon v- v Operations have been slower ver than the company had hoped for The Tho compressor and other otiler equipment has not yet reached the mine as the recent storms interrupted interrupted interrupted inter inter- the hauling for severa several weeks When the tho Installation Is I. completed rapid progress will wilt be made tn n driving the long tunnel This work Is being done by contract