Show StAY PJJJP ix A nOIST I One of the aicrcnrs Properties Will I Need the Improvement I I It begins to look a though the Mer cur Gold Mining and Milling company would be forced to equip the Ruby I claim with a steam hoist in order to I get the property thoroughly Developed t This is the property in wiiicli the tunnel tun-nel shaft was put down to a depth of over 100 feet and all of the time remained re-mained in ore A drift from the bottom I bot-tom of this shaft which would be shar wou1 necessary i nec-essary in the event of an ord r being Issued to develop the entire o e body would bring the mouth of thd tunnel out away below the level of the rail road so that the only thing j which would remain would be the erection of a steam hoist The manage ant of the company Is now consider ng the proposition and it is very probable I that the improvement will be authorized 1 author-ized I I President Dern Is back frjpm the camp where he spent three djays of the week in superintending the second cleanup this month The pro uct of the second two weeks of the month I went east yesterday morning for refining re-fining The valuea saved dur g the month made a very satlsfactonr snowing snow-ing notwithstanding the fact that everything which came out of the mines went into the mill for treatment The shipment just made Is the third for the time the plant has been In operation although the first of 5000 worth of cyanides was the result of the cleanup of the bones left at the close of the operations at the old plant At present the usual ISO tons of ort are are beingtreated in splendid shape daily and the mines |