Show T MINING NOTES 4 5 From the Park City Record feet The Richardson Tunnel i in 780 feetA A new boarding house is being erected at the Larawaxen Tne mine ia looking very well The drift for the vein on the 400 level in the Empire has again been started The vein should be cut next week On Thursday the Ontario mill shut mi down for a few needed repairs I will probably be ready to resume work tomorrow Mr Pickering foreman at the I Waeatch brought us in a sample of the ore which he has in the facs of the tunnel I h very rich indeed There were twelve inches of ore on Wednesday y and the vein widening The ore shows beautifully in the roof of the tunnel where i ha not yet been lagged Two shifts are now at work warAt the Ontario a new machine shops shop-s being erected between the old hoisting works and the blacksmith shop I will be 23x42 feet A new engine and lathe has been ordered The forges iu the blacksmith shop will l have a blast attachment run by power from the machine shop The station at the 700 level is i completed and the drilt for the vein is i in about fortyfive feet The crosscut will be made at a distance of O feet from the shaft The Glenco is looking better than ever before The drift is in fifty feet 00 the vein which shows well all the way carrying from a foot in the nar rowest places up to two and three feet of ore The face of the drift carries car-ries about two feet of fine smelting ore There are forty tons of ore on the dump This week drifting on tbe vein has been suspended and a tunnel is being run to cut a direct and straight outlet for the dirt Heretofore it was reached by a prospect pros-pect tunnel which had two right angle turns The BCES Mine is producing from three to five tons of ore per day taken from the face of the drills and two slopes just started above the 35foot level The output will increase as tho slopes are raised The mine is in the finest possible working order The 35fcot level has been pushed east to the surface coding out under the dump I now makes a splendid working tunnel An incline has been etarted from the drift on tbe 100foot level and ia now down forty feet in good ore all the way Yesterday we visited the Sampson Mine and found James A Leahy working two shifts in the disc Hery shaft It is now down 125 feet ou as smooth a foot wall all the way as one could wish to see The vein is about seven feet thick with a streak of from ten to twenty four inches carrying more c lees silver and lead Tbo shill at work previous to our visit had come into omp very high grade chloride ore which was improving yestesday Wo hope to record a big strike next week Twenty five feet deeper nnd 4 drift will be run cast on too vein The Sampson is undoubtedly undoubt-edly ou the B fs vein The two shafts arc les than 100 feet opart Preparations are being mada aPitl I I ter by covering in the shaft The melhcd for supplying fresh air deems de-ems mention At tbo depth of thirty foet a small furnace is built An air tube enters it from the bottom of tbe shaft and one runs from i to the surface A fire bong made the lot air cscends to tee surface thus tacking up from below tha foul air I is a complete success From the Southern Utah Time The shaft on the Carbonate No2 is down sixtytwo feet and has been discontinued and drift etrrled north t catch the vein The drift is now in about fifteen feet I Tho Best of All is down but eight feet but shows 1 fine vein of galena ore He says there are now six tons on tbe dump that will go 56 per cent lead and 33 ounces silver Col Compson reports t he Frisco I Company working three men on the Sanders and two on Best of All The shaft of the former down fiftyfour I feet on the vein which i nearly crtiele but has a blight dip toward the contact not far oQ Sever tons of f cood ore are on the dump From Mr T M Collins who is i now carrying on tbe work on the Carro Gordo we learn that the shaft is down sixtyeight feet and a drift has been staked to cut the ledge which is supposed to bs distant about twentyfive feet He says 1 blast was put in on the cropping of be vein last Tuesday which threw out boulders of black metal ore weighing from 200 to 300 pounds which will assay from 400 to 600 ounce to the ton He reports about eventyfive tons awaiting shipment The railroad is completed to tho Horn Silver mine and the grade to the smelter ia being pushed with aim a-im V tracks will be put in at both the mine and smelter and the road will reach tho dump of the later from the northeast the only point from which it was found prac icable to approach Superintendent Gove is now engaged on plans for the nlargment of the two stonE furnaces I is the intention to double their capacity and the work will be begun very soon Furnace JSo 1 was run down on Wednesday on account of a damaged jacket but will be in blast again in D few days No bullion has been shipped this month but is being slackd up in the yard at the smelter |