Salt Lake Herald | 1899-05-21 | Page 6 | Shaft House Looms Up

SHAFT HOUSE LOOMS UP New Ridge Valley Building a Prominent Prom-inent Feature of Eureka Special Correspondence Eureka May 20The great big new shafthouse of the Ridge Valley group almost completed looms up with gigantic gi-gantic proportions above the town and Just east of the Gemini The structure has a length of seventy feet by thirty six in width and the gallows frame reaches to a height of thirtysix feet from the collar of the shaft covering perhaps one of the most perfectly appointed ap-pointed shafts now in the district every feature revealing the work of a skilled artisan I is timbered to the bottom of the main workings with dressed and planed Oregon wood so closely and perfectly put together that sand could scarcely pass through any crevice The big perpendicular shaft comprising com-prising two cage compartments and a manway indicates that the management manage-ment contemplates deep workings and propose doing all the preliminary matters mat-ters right at the commencement All of the caipenter work has been In charge of John McPherson skilled and thorough thor-ough workman and the product of his labor and Ingenuity reflects the highest credit to his profession The general manager Charles Fields said the present equipment is certainly ample for performing all necessary work at a depth of 1000 feet and we possess plenty of conveniently arranged space to set additional boilers and engine en-gine force in whenever the occasion demands more power for lifting purposes pur-poses The company is supplied with a Rand compressor and will employ the use of power drills as soon as practicable praC-ticable In fact the premises denote in the presence of everything modern and serviceable not only the means to procure them but that an experienced and master mind is directing all operations opera-tions Literally nothing can be said of the companys prospect possessions other than the locality justly warrants the belief that the ore chute in the great Gemini group which practically adjoins them on the west must exist to a greater or less degree in the Ridge Vale and that It is the determination determina-tion of the directory to pursue diligent explorations in their valuable ground until the rich bodies of mineral are I I uncovered