Show excellent headway is being made in the equipment and development of the eureka ophir con mine of late this property is located in dry canyon tooele thoele county above stockton and is an old producer of note the shaft house bouse has been completed and the gasoline engine and hoist are aee in successful oper aaion while work is progressing in the building of a residence and office for the manager J W cairns an old colorado miner who is confident that he has corralee corr aled a bonanza in this ancient property mr cairns in the city a few days ago informs the mining review that he is cleaning 0 out a and nd re timbering the old shaft this work has progressed to a depth of seventy feet the work ings thus far being all the way in good ore as the shaft was sunk on the vein the hole has a probable depth of feet and when the bottom is r reached drift drifting ina on the ore body will begin As it is mr cairns is well fixed and equipped for a successful winters campaign of development and exploration |