Show OXETHIKD COMPLETED Ontario Drain Tunnel Extension In Soft Ground The face of the extension of the great Ontario drain tunnel from ghaft No 2 to shaft No 3 is now in 333 tfeet or about onethird of the entire length and the ground has become so soft as to require tCcniberingr It is an1icpated that the hard formation will return however and theraby obviate the continuance of the placing of the supports It was only very recently that the ground became at all soft and back behind the 200 footmark mark there are lint few seitsof tun bens The tunnel is toeing driven at the rate of ten feet every twentyfou hours I Daly went on record with a shipment ship-ment of bullion yesterday It consisted con-sisted of twenty bans containing 21 85933 fine ounces Silver Again Advancing As was confidently anticipated would be the case by the talent the price of bar silver yesterday made a material mate-rial advance on the New York and London markets the cain at the former for-mer being of a cent or five full ooints This made the quotation at which smelter settlements were mad 66 2S cents as compared with 65 58 cents on Saturday There was still no change in the price of common lead which is selling at 3 Gold Queen Development About the first of the coming week or not later than the last operation are to be resumed at the Gold Queen located in the Blue Mountains and owned by local people including Ben Haywood and Frank D Kimball Th former of the gentlemen is to star for the property within the next day or two prepared to set a force of men to work This property has a ten foot vein of ore which averages 30 tracings of which may be followed for 600 feet Ryan Has Returned H M Ryan is back from Denver and New Mexico and says he is now ready to take uo the old battles where he left off While in Denver Mr Ryan attended to the details of the hearing of the famous Bassick case which is still under advisement bv the judge After the hearing he joined his wife at Las Vegas N < M1 where he enjoyed en-joyed a brief rest and freedom from business cares Going to Dc < Lamar Ralph Nichols exsuperintendent of the famous Comstock tunnel at Virginia Vir-ginia City Nev and his family are at the Knutsford The gentleman recently recent-ly sent in his resignation to the tunnel tun-nel company and accepted an offer from Captain John R DeLamar to act as assistant superintendent of the captains cap-tains Nevada mines He Is now on the way down to DeLamar to assume the duties of his position Silver Icing is Shipping Shipments of ore have been resumed from the Silver King although not In any very great Quantities just now The roads leading to i the Parks great properties have been1 partially freed from snow during the past few days and it is now but the question of a short time when heavy movements will again take place Those from the Silver King are to be increased very rapidly if the transportation proposition proposi-tion is speedily solved Ore and Bullion McCornick Co yesterday received Mercur cyanides S13600 silver and lead ores 6000 Hanauer bullion 3050 Ibex bullion 2150 silver and lead ores 6000 Wells Fargo Co received Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania bullion S9265 |