Show SIOUX CON T TO SIN SINK NOTS fROM I Sioux Siou C Consolidated has let lot a s 1 contract I Ifor for sinking tho the main shaft Bhatt says tho the Eureka Reporter Tho The rep report rt however how how- over ever ever that copper ore has already been boen located Is rather premature ac- ac to W. W D. D Loose Looe local manager gor The winzo is following tho the main big biff fissure Assure which was first encountered In n tho upper levels le els of or tho Sioux some years cars ago and the work Is at a n depth of or about feeL feet The formation is said salI to be bo almost t identical with tho the Iron Blossom at nt the same depth The Tho Iron Blossoms Blossom's copper deposit did not show commercial values until it I was cut at SOO feet Duncan and Allen Alon have a contract for tor sinking the Sioux shaft shaf to tho the 1000 level ovel level Early in the week work was again taken up in the tho shaft shaU of oC tho Eagle Blue D Bell l mine and it Is 18 stated that sinking will wIl be bo continued until tho water water wa wa- ter level Is reached The shaft shat was down 1876 and it is expected fully tuBy teet feet of oC work can be done The smelter has lies not net modified the order given tho the Eagle EnGle Blue Bell Del a a few Cow months ago forcing the mine to cut its Is tonnage down to about a a carload carlOn a day Since that time a a. In large e amount of development development develop develop- ment work has been done dono Manager E. E J J. of the Tintic TIn TIn- tlc tic tc Standard Mining Ining company who was out from tho the capital today states that a contract will bo be lot at nt once for tor the sinking of oC tho new now working work work- ing InS shaft shat Some bids have already I been submitted to the company but these will wll not bo be opened until th the early erl part of or next week giving other othor bidders lL t chance to submit t figures Mr Mr Rad- Rad datz says sas that tho the contract will wil call cnn for 1000 feet of sinking an and that a a date will willbe willbo wil bo be set for tor the completion of the Job Victor Ictor Con While only onlY a a limited amount of oC work Is going on at nt the tho property of oC the Victor Victor Victor Vic Vic- tor Con Mining company in tho the Mammoth Mammoth Mam Mam- moth end of or the district it I is understood understood understood under under- stood that officials of or the company have about completed arrangements for tor fora tora a campaign of or deep mining which Is Iso Isto isto to o be handled from the tho lower levels orthe of or the Iron Blossom mine The Victor Victor company owns one ono of the most moat valuable of ot mineral ground round In Tintic which has bas been worked to somo some extent from rom the surface to tho the level but there thero Is 18 no company in inthe tho the central part of oC the district which has a a. larger amount of ot virgin terri tern tor tory Deep mining should make a big mine of oC the tho Victor in the tho opinion of or Tintic mining noon mono A. A W. W McCune tho the chief owner of or tho the ground realizes this thi but Mr Ir McCune Is too busy with wih other othor affairs to pa pay much attention to his Tintic Interests Recently he ho placed his brother J 1 J. J E. E In charge of ot the Victor and ono one o of these teso days the property is going to bo be heard beard fro from from in Several thousand dollars worth of ot ore has taken taleen from the tho mine by leasers and work la Is now being carried on with a force of OC about five men The company's hoisting plant was destroyed de do- by fire tre last year ear and since Ince Wn that time but very ery little work has has been dono done in tho the lower levels Just at present present pres pres- ent eat and Anderson Anderon are aro able to operate at a depth of or feet teet having installed a small smal hoist on e tl Boss Tweed section of or the Victor ground Thomas Holdaway HOllaway who is superintending tending operations at the property of oC the Tintic Central Mining company Inthe in inthe inthe the eastern part of tho the district Is 19 hl highly pleased with tho the showing at a depth of or 52 feet whore where drifting Is now In progress progress Tho The point at which this thi work is being done dono is about foot to tho the southwest of ot the shaft A drift was sent out on tho the level then a was sunk twenty five twenty twenty-tva foot feet and work worle Is now being handled from Crom this thin but tho the waste material is la being dropped down to to the lovel level below For somo Bomo little timo the quartz quart through which tho the drift is I being driven has carrIed carried car car- ried ned small smal values values Both Doth brown and black quartz is found in tho the Central and in iii places tho the quartz is lib liberally lb- lb lib lib- crl orally stained with iron mixed up with witha a n copper talc which undoubtedly carries carres some |