| Show ONTARIO REPORT Operations at the Big Mine During the Year 1898 The annual report of Superintendent Chambers and Secretary Dunn of the Ontario company has just been made public Owing to the fact that the great property was closed down during the year on account of the low price ol silver the period covered by the report re-port was one of comparative inaction However the secretarys figures show that the ore sales during the year were J114615 and the bullion sales from tailings worked at the Marsac mill aggregated ag-gregated 32726 During the year thee was paId out on mine account r > S01J ittill count nlll and for general expenses 2227 The cash balance on hand De 31 i 1S9S was 101012 Superintendent Chambers report is mainly confined t the condition of the mine and other i i ty owned by the company and shs that enough ore has been extracted 10 meet the expense ex-pense of keeping everything in repair Concerning the 1500 level Mr Chambers Cham-bers says Nothing done on this level this year This level will furnish good stopes Near the face of the west drift the ores ore-s some ten feet wide and high grade This whole level IF i very promising of good results and IF i the best indication of the ore holding out to a much greater great-er depth The mine generally is in good condition con-dition for working at any time when a lull force may be put on All of the work during the past year has ben confined to sloping and that above the COOfoot level and at the west end of the mine extracting remnantsof he ore bodies which were left during the past decade My purpose is to take out all pay ore to the surface so as to save the expense of retimbering and protecting that portion of the mine The ore bodes bod-es here are generally small and were left because they would not give the tonnage required to keep the mill running run-ning also they had to be sought or prospected for by crosscuts winzes and upraises as the occasion required and there is much of this prospecting to be done before this ground is entirely entire-ly abandoned However the ore extracted ex-tracted and sold to smelters from ibove portions of the mine has maintained the expense of keeping all the properties proper-ties in good repair The project of working over the large tailings dump below the Ontario mill was postponed when the construction construc-tion of the leaching plant was suspended sus-pended in 1S93 owing to the fall in the rice of silver The Marsac mill be onglng to the Daly Mining company Icing idle an opportunity was afforded af-forded to make an experimental run with the Russell leaching process during dur-ing the past year The mill was started on June 1 and the cleanup began Dec 31 1898 During this period 11919 net tons of tailings were delivered to the battery averaging 106 ounces silver per ton From this there has been realized re-alized in silver bullion sold 3272006 with a product remaining on hand and n process estimated to be worth about I 54000 For further particulars I re er you to the financial statements nerewith The fire at Park City on June 19 and a fire in the conveyor boxes in August delayed operations materially at the same time reducing the tonnage and adding to the expense Nevertheless the completed accounts will show a net profit for this trial run that warrants a continuation of the work during the coming year |
