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Show I The Pacific Fissure I RECENT HISTORY INDICATES THAT IT WILL FORM A ORESCENT AND PROVE TO BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST ORE CHANNELS IN THE STATE. 1. "When the Government gathered its information for a pre-yiminary pre-yiminary report on tbe Amorican Fork Ganyonahdtbo'Cotton- B surface workings indicated thai H course. "When Peter Miller cu H ft course of 20 degrees oast of no H ers began to speculate about its H As work progressed on the H tunnel level drifting to the H northeast a series of short J faults have been encountered H till now, after a distance of HJ 700 feet has been gone, its course is nearly 20 degrees H west of north. This would in-H in-H dicate that when fully opened V up, the fissure may have a H crescent shape similar to tho H big fissure that has made H Goldfield famous. H Peter Miller gives it as his H opinion that the bottom of the H canyon, that from the .-junction ofDoer Creek to the Waterfall H nunc forms almost a true half circle, has been made by a Rival fault, ire thinks, from his experience in opening the Pacific mine, that the big fis- sure will about pnrallol this H fault, and will bo found run- uint: through tho Dutebmau, tho "Miller Hill, tbe Pacific, the Copper Glance, and tbe Aini-rican Pork Mining Co's. finminl It may, to the north, C'Ut (i.i in(0 ji, p0j, or (i1( Vtali (S-ntenial, and to the bouMi ii may cut into the M Whirlwind and Ned Wild's S Aiui-rioan Volunteer and down H Int" 'i- Major Evans tom- ( lailcs Doolittle gives it as t it had a north-east-southwest t it with his deep tunnel, it had rth, and adjacent properly own-going own-going through their ground, his opinion that the Dutchman workings are on this fissure, and Charles Earl has organized organiz-ed his Miller Hill Exploration Co. on the theory that Miller and Doolittle are correct. Mr. Owens, the old canyon veteran, vet-eran, says that he has traced (he fissure in its crescent course, that was the source of the Old Wyoming's wealth, on down through the Texan, the Bredemeyer and the American Fork Canyon Mining Co's. ground, right into the north end of tbe Pacific territory. Several who were inclined to scout this theory, are now beginning be-ginning to think that the old man may be right. "Where it crosses the Henley claim of the American Pork Mining 'Co's. ground Mr. Owens says ' tho fissure is 40 feet wide. ' The width of the fissure 'where it has been opened on 'the Dutchman ground, its strength and permanence at 'depth on the Pacific, its rich-!ness rich-!ness on the Copper Cllnneo 1 nnd its width on the American Pork Mining Co's. ground seem to justify the prediction of manv that it will finally prove to be the biggest single ore channel injho stnle. |