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Show BAY SrATE DEVELOPING WITH DEEP TUNNEL Three Shifts Pushing Lower Workings Work-ings nnd .Miners TnMiig out Ore on I'ppcr Lewi. Of nil tho work being done In the ennyon, nono Is being followed with closer Interest than Goorgo Tyler's dovclpomont of tho Hay Stntc pioporty. piopor-ty. Kverybody seems to bo Interested In Its pi ogress, nnd nonrly ovoryonn acquainted with tho nature of the woik being dono expects Mr. Tyler to bring In n mlno, and demonstrate tho mineral woith of that sido of tho ennyon. enn-yon. The thousand or moro feet of tunnels, tun-nels, drifts, winzes nnd up-rnlses mo nearly all In oro bearing lime, showing show-ing jHimo of tho strongest mineralization mineraliza-tion in nil tho canyon. No othor property enn show moio places with ore, nnd whon tho writer visited it, two men woro sacking ore, ono on an olght Inch vein and tho other on twelve inch streak. Sovcnty five sacks of Jilgh grade oro, said to be worth $125 per ton, woro on tho dump. Tho llmo beds are undoubtedly en-i rlclicil from n h!r porphry dyko that , tho proporty Just undor tho oro bods prospected near tho aurfaco. A i1 tunnol Is bolng run thnt Is now In ovor ov-or 200 foot and will cut this porphry. tho ovorlylng oro beds nnd a Cambrian Cam-brian quartzlte ledge at a depth and point where mining experts say n big body of oio should mnko. Tho contractors with two shifts were making nbout two feet per day and ono of them left Sunday for Hobor City to got men to put on another shift. An interesting feature of tho Uny Stato is tho quantity of antimony In tho porphry djkc near tho surface. If it grows i Ichor with depth It is nof unlikely thnt the mining of antimony may become a commercial feoturo of tho mine. The liny Stato has somo of tho biggest territory of any property proper-ty In tho Canyon. |
