Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-10-11 | Page 6 | Nevada Superior to Push Drain Tunnel

NEVADA SUPERIOR TO PUSH DRAIN TUNNEL Contract Will Wi Be Let for Feet to Connect Old W Workings orkin s. s The Tho Nevada eva a Superior Mining company compan com corn pan pany is IR about to Ie let a contract for its Us drainage tunnel feet which will take It to a connection con con- necton with wIh tho main workings This will not connect the tho tunnel wi directly with wih the tho shaft but will wi bring it to toa toa toa a point underneath the face of the drift Oil on the oo level with which conn will wi be made by upraisIng ing lug about 50 feet teet The Tue tunnel is now about 1100 feet long Eight hundred feet of that dl distance has been run on the vein In which three good ore shoots shoot have been heen opened tho the values alues running fr from m 15 to 50 per cent lead and from rota 5 to 45 5 ounces ounce in silver More 1010 than enough water for tor mine and purposes s has ha been developed de do- in the tunnel and by the time it reaches tho the upper workings 8 it is believed tho supply will wi b bO j ample am am- for the operation n of tho the concentrating concen concen- mill ml which whIch it is proposed to build at the mouth of the tunnel L. L G. G Durt Burton n mining engineer examined examined ex ex- the property a. a q few weeks ago and his report to the stockholders is Ii altogether favorable rable Ho He assures thorn them thor that development upon virtually virtually vir vir- vir the tho lines alre already d being pursued t cannot but make a paying mine Good Gooc I bodies of or milling oro ore are already Ir r blocked out in the mine and after the ti-ic old workings shall have havo beer been I ha e drained d will be gained rapidly Ir r running into th the hill bill hi giving t of ot opening still more Important on ore are bodies bodice by simply extending the extendInG pros pres- present ent levels