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Show FAVORABLE REPORTS " Fill G WET iiE Message From the Foreman Tells of Excellent Progress Prog-ress Just Made. I ' rlermnn "W'underlicli, superintendent of l 19, Calumet, the new had mine in Iron county, n.-ceivi'd the I "olluwi report r-s- I'Tday from the fureman he k'lt in charge : wfien he ..! ne tu tfa.lt LaUo: : Thlmrs here at the mine are polner alone; uifelv. The truck leaves in t lie morning with a. load of ore. We aro working on Lop of the sets you put in and the ore looks goii. As yet cannot can-not sav which way tiie ore will .so. This looks to bo a very good grade of ore a.nd rep'-mt.les the ore that you said was of good grade. There seems to he lots of it. J'id not drift to Hie left, as the ore is poinK no. j Ve have 100 buckets of ore on the I platform. ; ' A "bucket" of ore, Mr. TVunderlu-h explains, is about 5fK) pounds, so that 10U buckets would be about twenty-five tons. The timbers were put in and t.ie ore broken in three shifts. Mr. Wunder-Mch Wunder-Mch s confident that the new slope will produce ore faster than the two-ton truck and four-ton trailer, making two round trips daily, can haul it on good roads. "We shall probably be able to glory-hole 1 it up to the floor of the big "cave." he said, "and on itfl strike to the west it-will it-will go into a hill, where we can get plentv of backs." The Calumet, which was formerly known as the Arrowhead, has marketed nine care of ore since it was opened up by the Mines Development company under un-der a lease. |