Show LOWER LOER MAMMOTH Year of Big Work Makes Corn Com Corning Coming ing Annual Meeting 1 Shareholders of the Loer Mining company are looking forward a groat del deal of Interest to the nn an annual n nual nl me meeting Ung of t the sto stock stockholders k holders t to be held on January 10 At that meeting will be presented pres full un de dc tailed of the operations of the most ye year r In the history so far as mIne devel pent Is concerned t tOgether geter with a showing or of orthe the financial condition These report reports wl will b be of m mOre re tan than ordinary interest for tor th the reason tat that the U little Since Ince durig during year and a te more the ne campaign of development development was undertake Lower ammOth stockholders ers era have paId 20 cents a share in ns as assessments or a total of they are naturally Interested in just what results have obtained from the expenditure of tb the money WeT When the Lower Mammoth company ny ha had wor worked ed o out t the ore body In is its west vein down to the 1600 Jv 1 and had proven tat that the ore are es S r I It became apparent that i it would c be 1 a foolish waste of money to at attempt to open the ore bodies for development to yet lower levels wIthout plating the the mIne In form torm for tor mote more economical handling of ct the product The mine had had been dev loped In the way called d tor for forby by the exigencies of at occasionally Open OpenIng pen penIng Ing new ore oro bodIes bodice In rather widely separated portions of the territory wih with the resul result that i it had a single compartment shat shaft 1200 feet deep while the lower levels were rech d by a some distance from the shaft Great Task Is Undertaken ThIs arrangement necessitated dou double double ble hoisting the taking out ot of ore an anaste and waste aste being both slow and expensIve wIth prices of metals low the extra ox ex pease mIght mean the difference b be between tween operating at a a los or gaIning a a faIr profit I It was accordingly deter determined determined mined to develop the mIne right then go ahead The work of enlarging the shaf shaft to wo compartment and man manway wa way and continuing i it that sIze to the level was undertaken aU all other work In the mine having been virtually suspended while the bercu herculean lean task was I In course of accomplish accomplishment ment Wih With the shaft complete drIs drifts for both th east and the west est veins were started on several levels A crosscUt On the 1500 level found the east vein In place at a 0 point hundred feet teet further south than It had ever been opened In the upper levels and a drift sent southward on the veIn Is almost due to penetrate an ore shoot whIch down to the 1200 level In old workings yielded much ore One ot of the drifts on the west veIn Is likewise almost momentarily expected to brek break into the ore body from which ton thin above brought the shareholders handsome dividends ends Inter Interest ja nI The Lower Mammoth n nual nun s g will of course be greatly greaty enhanced should Superintendent E C CoMa have the good fortune to be able t tO report one or more Important strIkes at that I is enU r ly wIthIn the range of possibility |