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Show STOCKTON NEWS NOTES. From the Sentinol. STOCKTON WRITTEN UP By the Dnily Press in Very Extensive and Flattening; Style. The Salt Lake Tribune. (Continued Next Week.) While the policy of Its owner renders it Impossible to learn much concerning the results of the season' campnlgn at the Ophlr Hill, the enlargement of the mill, the Installation of un electric plant by which power ns well as light Is generated, and the possibility of an electric railway between the plant and the San Pedro, affords abundant evidence evi-dence of thrift, and to his Income from other sources the proposition added not n little. The product of the mill, running well up In Ircrh, finds nn engcr mniket at the smelter furnaces nnd nf-fords, nf-fords, It is said, a good .margin. Dry Cnnyon, nt one period In Utah's create ?t Industry the source of some of the richest ore ever diunped into a furnace, fur-nace, and for a- few lots from the his-toilc his-toilc Mono Untie Matt Glsborn was permitted to pocket n fortune, settled down to most energe'tlc development during the year, nnd while the tonnage with which it reported" on the market wns small, in quality it compared favorably fa-vorably with any In the diggings nnd wus much above the average. The more Interesting of th,e year's undertakings under-takings in the locality ,"whlch comes almost al-most within the embrace of more pte-Unllous pte-Unllous Stockton, wad the determined efforts by Mr, W. N.MncShorry and his associates of Pittsburg, Pa., to restore re-store the Mono to Its premier meosure of productiveness, the-'year closing upon a progress In that direction which was, most encouraging. The Eurekn-Ophlr, operated by a ctowd In Wnrren, Pn and H. A. Lane, who directed the campaign, was productive pro-ductive of not a little of the year's output out-put from the camp, and at u depth of 200 feet, with additional depth being hourly gained, the condition Ih a most satisfactory one. The Utah Queen, the property of a wealthy syndicate of New Haven. Conn., and under the management of Morris R. Hunt, wns ajso productive of considerable hlgh-gmde ore during tin year, while the Commodore gioup In Soldier canyon came forward with several sev-eral shipments of rock of good quality, and then suspended for the winter. Into the Hershel the tunnel which U headed for a well defined fissure continued to steadily advnr.ee, with mime ore to encourage en-courage the undertaking, while severnl others did tome work. The outlook over there Is quite assuring nt this time, nnd n series of Important disclosures should follow present development nt an early dny. From Salt Lake MlnlngiRcvlew. The driving of the Honerlne tunnel Is n notable achievement here and marks a new era Inl'jthe history of Stockton. Too muchrtwnter has been I tlieT01sturblng;eIemQnt,tthlBcanipv little 'ver360Weel'w'th&',tunnolMlas-, been completed, about 2500 feet having been driven hiBt year, and many of the workings that a short time ago were filled with water have been drnlned. The tunnel, when complete, will be S000 feet long, nnd up to dnte has cost a quarter of a million dollars. In the meantime preparations are going on for the building of a grent reduction plnnt at the mouth of the tunnel. The completion of the tunnel will be the signal for the carrying on of development develop-ment work In the district on n Inrge scale. The Black Diamond, Calumet, East Honerlne, Galena King, Cyclone, Legal Tender, Hercules, Bullion. Shamrock, Argent nnd Kntherlne will be the properties prop-erties to receive the direct benefit of the Honerlne tunnel. Many Eastern men. Interested In mining mi-ning affairs, have Ideas about mining thnt would be funny but for the fact that their applications arc so disastrous disas-trous to their Interests. Their Intentions Inten-tions nre good, but their Judgment Is faulty. For Instnnce, n story !s going the rounds of the preps about a mine superintendent who cabled his company com-pany that the "shaft had caved in nnd thnt a new one would have to be made." The president of the compnny cabled back: "Can't you buy a secondhand second-hand shaft?" This Is equal to the Kansas method of cutting a dry well In sections and selling them to settlers for port holes. In no matters does a mining superintendent super-intendent show his good qualifications better than In the selection of his foro-men foro-men and bosses. Many good engineers make poor superintendents for lack of the null 'i to discern character Instead In-stead of wund Judgment they are swayed In their selections by fancies as silly as those of a schoolboy. The elements that make a good Amerlcun soldier or railroad man are precisely those that make a good mine foremnn. Among theso the tesponrive nnd "Initiative" "In-itiative" qualities stand prominent, If not pre-eminent. |