Show ROCK DRILLING CONTESTS the fourth of july was a gala day in many of leading mining camps the delvers in the mines being given a chance to show their efficiency with the drill and hammer the principal contests being held in eureka eureka mercur and bingham in commenting on the trial of skill at eureka the miner says it was when the drilling contest was begun in which the interest of the day was centered each contestant conte stent drilled fifteen minutes without restrictions of any nature and the deepest hole won the purse which was 1 1 in n the double handed contest and 50 in the single the Min garetti brothers won th the e double handed contest and john Min garetti the single the latter with a superb record of aj 9 inches the rock was a boulder of hard quartzite gatewood and eppler would have won the double handed contest but for the breaking of a drill which was left in the hole when it was measured following is the score double handed louis gatewood and hank eppler 18 inches richard hill and robert mckenzie inches Min garetti brothers inches single handed nick 61 inches richard hill 6 3 16 inches john min garetti aj inches tom mansfield 61 inches titus billings david coleman and john nolan were the judges and 1 D bowen and james clarke held the clocks in the write up of the contest at mercur the miner of that camp says the drilling contest took on the street in front of the bank and was the part of the program in which the miners took the 11 greatest urea test interest in the double handed contest there were four teams entered the result of fifteen minutes work by each team was as follows geyser marion team charles coats and john anderson 36 inches golden gate team dave mcdonald and tim gallagher inches golden gate team nic nick k anderson and matt byrns inches mercur team john baker and charles Rand brandburg burg 34 inches the last team would have made a better showing but unfortunately they drilled a little to one side and went through the rock there were six entries for the single r handed contest and the following was the result oscar wright from the Overland 26 inches wm ani ramsey of the mercur inches A better record would have been made by ramsey had he not broken his third drill off on in the hole J golden gate hi inches angel Vicin taner city igi inches J williams geyser marion 17 inches alex thompson golden gate inches at bingham bindham the contest was delayed to such an extent that it was impossible to carry out the program ram in full but a good record was made according to the bulletin which says double and single handed drilling contests were looked for and a fine block of granite for the purpose had been hauled from cottonwood canyon but some hitch in arrangements delayed matters until nearly dark A trial of fifteen minutes for a purse of 1 36 was then made by dick mclaughlin and henry clay the former winning with ili hi inches to his credit while clay made ili inches |