Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-07-14 | Page 8 | Ore is Struck in Spiro Tunnel

ORE IS STRUCK STRUCK I IN SPIRO TUNNEL L I It Ii I ic b announced by officials official of tho the Silver I King Consolidated that everal stringers of galena and gray ray copper have hav been encountered J In the taco faco of the Spiro tunnel now a 1 I distance of oC feet teet from the tha pp Although showings showing have been a a- common common occurrence In the tunnel thin this r recent condl j 1 l- l lion I Is Ii taken as U an Indication that a n. blind fissure mR may be n l hand Fissures blind o of this chara character ter In the tho Silver King Conoll dat dated d have haye often otte been more productive than any other from Crain the fact that their truc I lure urr It U Is vald sall Was wan favorable to the tho formation for for- mation of bedded deposits The J nearest Brest open fissure so 50 far as a. Is I. known I is 18 theand the tho t and MM The The- Spiro tunnel I is being driven on to tt open up Important fissure s a tem head ahead lind to tap at depth the old Comstock shaft When a a. a point I is reached below bolow the shaft the tunnel will haye hafe a vertical depth or of from 1700 to 1300 feet below the surface S