Show MINING NOTES e t From the Park City Record Work on tho Little Giant will commence com-mence this corning week The Federal Tunnel in 275 feet a splendid increase over last weeks report The Utah hoisting works are enclosed en-closed and sinking on the shaft com menced Thursday Toe Hawkeye shaft is down 165 feet and steadily sinking three and four feet a day three shill still be big maintained The assays from the 700foot level of the Ontario yield over 700 ounces Ihe ore from whioh these assays ere taken was immediately from the point where lh r ledge was struck I The Woodside No 2 is shipping two tons of ore daily averaging forty eight ounces of silver and ii per cent lead to the ton Drifting on the strike of the vein is progressing the present distance in being ninety feet Developments on tho Jeannette haynea Canon continues most favorable Firm ore streak of from weney to twentyfour inches that assays from 40 to 50 and in this is a solid streak from four to five inches wide that assays from 250 to 300 apparently carrying this down to the deep The 300 station of tho Bonanza was completed today Its dimensions are Ss24 The men commence cutting cut-ting tor the 400 station tomorrow It is to be 12x25 The pump station on this level will be completed ia about three weeks when a Blake pump with a 200 gallon capacity will be put in place Tbe pump now in use is raising 100 gallons per minute min-ute from a depth of 300 feet A safety cage is to be placed in tbe old shaft of the Ontario and a new sire cable has been ordered for the new Tbe 700 station is to ba whitewashed white-washed and given an airy appearance The new Knowles 14inch plunger on this station is working admirably and raising 1000 gallons of water per minute It has relieved several pumps on upper levels whereby two of tbe fourteen boilers are in disuse savins fuel to the amount of fifteen I cords per day Hitherto it has required re-quired at the mine fifteen tons 01 coal and twenty five cords of wood daily The new machine shop is being put in chip shape and will be large and convenient A sluice beneatb the track on the drift from the 700 foot station keeps the rails dry and is anew a-new feature in the mine The Cornish pump is i ordered and will be larger han originally intended I will have a 22inch plunger The pump cannot be completed and put in place short of the time tbe 800 level is reached Drifting to the west on the 300 and 400 levels into ore not opened up but work on which was abandoned aban-doned two or three years ago has recommenced and rich ore found recommence This work will develop claims on the west end Drifting on the vein on the 700 level will be deferred until pumps from upper levels can be brought down the rush of water being feared From the Southern Utah Times The iron mines in Iron Springs District will be examined this week by a party of Frisco gentlemen composed com-posed of Messrs Tischer Presly Den ly Lindsay and others who are of the opinion that they can again be profitably worked Tbo Colonel Compson in Pine Grove District is now down forty eight feet and the men are at work upon L ore vein a little more than two feet thick the assay from which shows 65 oz silver 63 per cent lead and 4 in gold The Major in Granite District is down fifty leet and the miners are right slap onto s solid forty loot body of free milling ore that assays about 12 per cent copper and 36 15 oz silver sil-ver This is the largest body of ora bat has yet been uncovered in this section excepting the Horn Silver Mine The Carbonate San Francisco Die rict Another visit was paid to this camp yesterday and work was found to be progressing tbo same as usual the ore track has been sbedded for a IBianco of several hundred feet and other winter improvements made The concentrator has been run a few times for the purpose of testing the machinery but owing to the non arrival of pipes eta together with other unavoidable drawbacks the mill is not likely t be in smooth running run-ning order until the week after next Hessre Bigelow Goodrich and Fern ham are bringing tbe machinery touch to-uch perfection as to warrant the assertion ertion that there can be no possi eerton ility of a failure The Americus in San Francisco District is at last about to be opened and made to yield up for all it i worth With this purpose in view he South Horn Silver Mining Company Com-pany incorporated in New York on November 4t The company immediately im-mediately delegated Mr M L Cody the gentleman who placed the mine to proceed at once to Frisco with instructions in-structions to employ a foreman and a force of men sufficient to erect the necessary buildings and prepare the way for work which will be pushed forward on a large scale Mr C arrived here on Wednesday last and within twentyfour hours had complied com-plied with hie inttructioLS |