Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-09-05 | Page 8 | Spiro Tunnel Has Good Ore

SPIRO SPIRO TUNNEL to n HAS GOOD ORE At At the tho Spiro tunnel of ot the Silver Sliver King Consolidated d. d Park CIl City three feet feel of oC high S grade the face 1 n silver ead v of rig the drift wo west ore oro still from appears appears' the tho ari Iron in inS raise ml nod about bout twenty fire feet above the tu ei level and tho the oro ore is being saved as Considerable difficulty has hu b been Cn ex experienced expert expert- perl- perl need In keeping th the tho drift In the tho ore After sloping upward for tor many feet teet tho the oro ore shoot turned downward It could not be bo followed by nn t Incline be because nuo ef ot the descending wAter vater which would quickly have hao filled filleti an any depression Slon It was necessary to cut down tho the floor of ot the drift drUt clear back to tho the r raise lee every very time the ore dropped down n In the face For this reason realon progress has bas been elo slow Now the tha drift on the tho tunnel level Is being extended westerly to Intercept theore tho the ore on Its dip If It comes down ao so far or 01 orto orto to divert ert the tho water If tho ore turns turn up upward up up- ward ard again Above tho the solid ore which fills fills' the face of oC the tho drift three thre feet up from the bottom aro are bunches and fragments of ot thee tho I unto kind of ot ore Imbedded In Iron pyrite The Tho main tunnel Is b passing through a a. softer formation of or and making a. a heavy flow of water The breast Is 11 miner miner- No o Important changes chansu have been noted in hi the prospect work on 00 the upper levels