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Show Leasers Start Long Tunnel Will Tap Paclllc Vein nt Great Depth M Inert Throw up Yankee Lease. Peter Miller Is inndo of the kind of stuff that makes mining camps. He commenced to sink on tho old Pacific vein, and when driven out with water came down and secured n: pumping outfit to tuke care of the wutor. This, loo, proved Ineffectual, so ho has now-put now-put several shifts to work driving n long tunnel which will tap tho vein at a depth or probably 400 feet, uud which will probably be the menus or opening up a real mine. Tho tunnel will be through lime and shalu for decial hundred feet and then pass through several hundred feet of hard iiunrtzlle before reaching the desired vein. Power drills will be operated so the miners will mako fast time 'I'lie commencement of tho long tunnel tun-nel shows the kind of faith that Mr Miller and his associates have In the property. "Tho .lacks" (Ihe lTp I.i-nse Messrs Armstrong and Grnntliuin have given up their leuso on tho Live Yankee mine In American Fork canyon. can-yon. Their lease would hnve expired lu a few more montlin, which wns too short u time to enable tho leasers to do the necessary prollmlnnry work to get the ore out economically. The men state that there Is plenty of good ore where their lust shipment was taken from, but tho wnter and running run-ning ground mudo It unprofitable to lake It out. The most economical way In which the ore could bo extrnctetl Is to extend the lower tunnel several hundred feet, which would give a good depth, and besides enabling the nilu-ei-H to get the ore body left by Grnntliuin Grnn-tliuin and Armstrong, would also Intercept In-tercept other bodies. John Cleghom, the holder of the original lease, will go nrter the ore body loft by the sub-leasers. sub-leasers. Dr. Holden stopped In American Fork for a few days Inst week and visited tho Hog and Dutchman mlii'M In the canyon In which ho Is Inter"?!-cd. Inter"?!-cd. He wns delighted with the progress pro-gress being made lu the Hog, nud expects ex-pects It to develop Into a steady shipper. ship-per. Tho ore now coming from this property would seem to Justify the Doctor's faith. He wos on his way from l.os Angeles to his old home lu Cleveland, Ohio. |