| Show king of the Hills to start artWork St nork on bi biar r tunnel 5 n 4 management eap exp expects ts to open up big copper Tro proposition position when mamano mammoth hanein vein Is ta tapped ppe d A tho the victual work ot of driving jr rv living tile foot tunnel at tho alrig D f tho the icille porty perty will bo be begun nest week tile the machinery Is practically in place and will havo its first ir tryout out monday biond ay iy or tuesday the work will be prosecuted from the face of a tunnel chichis chis already in about foot making tho total length of dio alio tunnel about i feet lu in tile the prncess of driving two hay lead silvor silver boins will be crosscut cross crois cut tile fit hist at wit within in fifty or si M sty foot feet and tho second nt at bilut th ree hundred foot fez As aa soon ns as these veins aro are cut they bo be opened out and ore 6 alom from them will be ba commenced but tbt the great objective point is tile tho in copper copper vein vf in which will bo be tapped lapped at it vertical depth of between five hundred an and a six aix hund hundred reci feet hero it is ito open ono of tile the biggest copper pro pos irions in atie state both na as to s aizo i zo and as to richness in tho the shaft which cabeen hoa been sunk to a depth of two hundred fifty feet and to which it is ia proposed to connect the lower wor workings kingi when tho tunnel i IB s completed i values have gradually increased from four per cent copper at the surface to about ton ten per cent at the bottom of the shaft it tins hag never beon been determined what the width of tho vein may be at tile the one hundred foot level a thirty tool ool cross cut was run encountering the hanging wall and on oa the two hundred alty level crosa cutting hits only been carried on for eighteen or twenty foot feet without encountering either wall sam taken art frn tho thib I 1 lohrer ow r jovel carrying values up frt 0 o taj thirty per chilt w copp erand er ances in i eil ail ver tho the re relative ve va values es a all I 1 through brou frou 1 being about two ounces in silver to one per cent copper INI MT r A L general manager ager for tho the king hing of tho that hills company estimates that it will take four months to complete tho the tt tunnel innel and that with tho the beginning of 1913 the property ought to be in shape to make its regular ship monts merits of high grade copper ore |
