Show unknownMR MERCUR MERCURY NEWS Extensive Developments i Progress i the Camp The Boston shaft of the ia Cigale mine hrs been sunk a hundred feet since the 20th of last month and a drift has been started south from that point to inter cet a drift which is being run north from the Lillian Russell shaft on the same level The two shafts are 5 feet apart and this drift will demonstrate the value of a large area of ground As soon as the shaft which is being continued on down reaches the 200foot level another drift will be run in like manner The value val-ue In the shaft are excellent assays of 5 having been obtained during the present week The air drills at the Brickyard shaft are making a great hole in the hill Every Ev-ery round breaks from five to seven feet of ground At a point in the Incline 250 feet from the mouth drifts have been started north and south on the ore which is of good grade Matt Dixon has charge of the drill in the operation of which he Is a past master The mine was recently sampled by Victor Clements and is being sampled this week by the Goden Gate people so there Is some excuse for tho rumor that the Brickyard is to be included In the Golden GateMercur deal I seems that the Rover so Ions neg lected is to receive the attention Its merits mer-its demand A force of five men was put on recently by Colonel Wall under tho foremanshiP of George Hannahs foreman of the Brickyard and already the property is responding to the labor expended On the ridge north and east of the spring and east of the old working work-ing which has been entirely undeveloped undevel-oped heretofore a incline was started a few weeks ago and is now In ore of Z T sar values and the vein looks exceedingly exceed-ingly well Ont the other hill about 1000 feot below the shaft of the Gold Dust n shaft has been started and Indications are now that the bottom Is coming into ore On the east dip the interest is growing and since the bonding of the May Queen group by C H Scheu the Gold King by James Hagan and the discovery of ore in the Gypsy Queen by the Stude bakers many are turning their attention to that locality C L Dignowlty informs us that he will next week resume work on the Moonshine group with a new drill the owners of the property just west of the Mercur mill report assays as high as a S and many property holders in that section are preparing to commence development de-velopment soon Work Is being greatly expedited on the Wonder shaft by the air compressor and drills Although the bottom is hard the shaft has gone down from the 600 level as reported last week to between 640 and 650 reprted the last 2 feet the dip has changed materially from S to 4 degrees de-grees which Is the same pitch a obtains on the vein In the Golden Gate In closely adjacent territory which is a Indication that tends to encourage the management The formation continues to be lime which looks to be somewhat mineralized The machinery which was put in with feat care works well The Geyser mill started up Tuesday evening with the new Gates crusher wih which has a capacity of 150 tons per day in commission The capacity of this mill Is 100 tons dally and It is proposed to increase In-crease it to 150 by the immediate addition of the requisite number of tanks The MarIon mill having a capacity of 3 or r Maron mi tons daily is being overhauled under the supervision of Foreman Blake and will soon be grinding again so that according accord-ing to indications and predictions the consolidated company V111 soon be treat consoldated of ore daily which would mean fat and frequent dividends for the stockholders Little change has yet been made in the working force the men whom the two companies found to be efficient and worthy of trust being retained In their old places Advice from the Gladstone property Is to the effect that work goes forward In eIect a systematic manner and good progress is being made The gold zone undoubtedly undoubt-edly runs through this ground and we have no doubt but that Manager Cory will find It The dump at the Mercur mill has been thoroughly sampled and several tons of samples have been brought up to the experimental ex-perimental mill at the Golden Gate been running all the week on which has rurnlng al these and other samples |