| Show I THE SOUTH DAISY The MineWill 3s Embellished With Va Hill This Spring V Special Correspondence Mercur an 18 Orders have just been received by Superintendent Sparga of the South Day to push the work with increased vigor l possible and as a consequence more men are being put on A depth ot 315 feet has been reachedIn the main inclinfe and two drifts are being man rn on the 300foot level The north drift is now In orty one feet and the face of the south drift is seventyeight feet from the Incline The crosscut at the 270foot level showed the vein to be twentyseven feet thick and all through the values are such that milling will probably be profitable AVoid has come that L R Duncan secretary of the company which In New York is known as the Helvetia will arrive in camp Feb 1 to examine the mine and decide what size of mill will be required Plans will then be prepared aId everything placed in readiness for building as soon as spring opens The Daisy is running 140 tons per day and experiments are being made to determine if leaching can be done quicker than has been the custom heretofore here-tofore and it looks as if this could be I done successfully This will permit the treatment of more ore daily without the necessity of adding more tanl sAt I s-At the Omaha work is progressing favorably fa-vorably and a large body of ore with good values is being opened up The L Cigale mill is running risht along and over 100 tons are being treated treat-ed daily The work of the roasters is highly satisfactory but it is found that most of the ore can be leached without with-out roasting The cost of roasting is so small however about 35 cents per ton and leaching is so much more satisfactory satisfac-tory that most of the ore will be run through the roaster before reaching the leaching tanks A shaft Is being sunk on the Brown group south of the Sunshine mine It is the intention to sink about 400 feet and it is eieved that ore will be found in that distance I At the Little Pittsburg the tunnel is in 130 feet and In a locality where the reck is highly mineralized with strong indications of being in the vicinity V of I the ore body Yesterday seemed to be a poor day in the district for milling ore The mill I a Manning was shut down while the change to the new tanks is being made the Sacramento shut down for repairs the Geyser had a slight break in the machinery causing a stoppage while the failure of the power shut down the Golden Gate and Overland and the freezing of the water pipes made work impossible at the Chloride Point With the exception of the Mercur mill all are running at full blast today |
