Show DRillS AT THE SilVER KING Management Applying Modern Methods of Drainage and Mine Mirie Ventilation A J 1 Scott the expert well drilling contractor who is to do a lot of oC work vork for tor he the Silver King ICing Coalition company at Park City was In town yesterday He will go to camp today his outfit already having been delivered at the mine and a d get down to business Gen General General General eral Manager lJ nager Thomas Kearns stated yesterday afternoon that it was the in intention of the company to drill a num number i ber er of oC holes in the southern portion of oC the compan s mammoth domain for forthe forthe the double purpose of ot securing ventilation ventilation r tion and draining wet and swelling I ground The first hole it is understood will be put down from the Hanauer tunnel level to the Alliance tunnel level leveland leveland leveland and thus afford a ir shaft through between and feet of ground Connections of oC this kind at different points where workings have extended into and con contiguous contiguous contiguous territory will it is figured greatly relieve sections where the ground is wet and heavy and at the same time result in perfect and nat natural natural natural ural ventilation in workings that now have to be supplied mechanically and at considerable cost These new im improvements Improvements Improvements are In line with the plans mapped out when the big coalition was formed and the of ot a vast ast area of rich territory was mapped out Mr Scott explained that al e had been engaged to do was on a contract basis he made a bargain it was to finish what he started in to do BO so that the company runs no risk of failure on his part He believes that machinery is going to play pl y a much more important part in metal mining than It has done in the past Where It takes from months to years sometimes to sink shafts and or make raises in metal mines for ventilation and drainage purposes Mr Scott explains that by using proper machinery and equipment the same object can be attained sometimes In hi days da s and at most a few months and at a small percentage of the cost of old methods After connections have been made with machinery and it is later decided to mine through such openings the fact that ventilation tion has been secured makes the work of raising or sinking much easier and safer I recently finished a well for Kearns and Keith In the Filmore field where they were pros prospecting prospecting prospecting for oil olio said Mr Jr Scott and while nothing better than a large flow of f water was struck I 1 expect to re receive receive receive orders from them later to put the well down another 1000 feet As the bore bora is ten Inches in the bottom this can be done very nicely if they the so decide have also practically closed a deal th t VIII result in my m sinking a deep well In the Uintah field for F J T Carman the wealthy oil operator who makes his home kin In n Los Angeles at the present but who has lia inmany fields and is still doing so |