Show THE LAST CHANCE A 2100Foot Tunnel to Tap the Vein of this Mine at a Depth of 1000 Feet The Last Chance mine was in the early days one of the greatest ore producers of Utah Territory and has yielded up over a million dollars When tne workings got down to a depth of 500 feet so much difficulty was experienced with water that the mine could not he worked profitably ably and the production of ore was therefore suspended The English Eng-lish company that now owns the the property are developing it on a magnificent mag-nificent scale and in less than a year the Last Chance will again take its place among the leading ore producers of the Territory A tunnel is being run that will intersect the vein at a depth of one thousand feet from the surface This tunnel will be two thousand one hundred hund-red feet long when the vein is reached and is now finished for a distance of nine hundred feet The drilling is done by hand at present but it is the intention inten-tion of the company to introduce air compressors and machine drills in this spring This tunnel will he completed i com-pleted in about six days and will drain I the water from the mine and enable the company to resume and continue ore production pro-duction for a long time to come The lowest workings of the mine show a four foot vein of fine ore which averages fifty ounces in silver twentyfive per cent lead and 8 in gold |