Salt Lake Herald | 1900-03-17 | Page 6 | Silver Shields' New Level

SILVER SHIELDS NEW LEVEL Drift Started in Ore on Second Level Below Tunnel With the work of ot cutting a station and opening the vein eln on the second s ond level leeI below the tunnel at the Silver Shield completed Superintendent Hood came in from Bingham last night to absorb for tor a day or 01 two some of the balmy air of springtime Before leav leaving leavIng leavIng ing yesterday Mr Hood saw w the first set of timbers leading into the ledge from the new ne station put In place found there was more than a foot of line flue ore where the drift had been bean 8 and left the works with the satisfaction of knowing that the mine which he and his associates sold to the Silver Saver Shield company a n little over ten months ago AIO for had proven to ba be all that he had claimed it would be beThe The shaft has now reached a of or feet below the tunnel level and in addition o 0 the large area still cUlt untouched above sixty feet feut in depth of virgin ground IB Is now no ready read for the work of or extraction to be taken up Superintendent Hood has bas made a afine afine fine record in developing the Silver and now that the purchasing company in which he holds a consid considerable erable crable block of stock himself is in final and absolute b possession p Ion of the mine without having hing a dollars indebtedness hanging hailing over it he contemplates sur surrendering surrendering rendering the oJ J superintendent and taking a trip east It may be a month or to two before he leaves but he feels that he has earned a rest t and now that he has accomplished J what he set St out rout to do one year ago he be take it