Show WATER CONTRACTS SIGNED U Colonel Walls Ophir Creole Project Receiving Mercur Mercury Wednesday Mr Scheu and his associates signed an agreement with Colonel Wall and his company to take water for a hundred cmpany ton mi with a prospect that i will be built with a much larger capacity 200 tons The mill will be ready for operation as soon as the water can be made available and Colonel Wall and his company agree to commence work on the pipe line as soon as the frost is out of the ground At the same time these contracts were drawn the Sunshine Sun-shine people contracted for water for a mill of a capacity of fifty and perhaps per-haps 100 tons a day which will be ready to run a soon as the water can be got The deals not only solve the water problem the only hindrance tote to-te rapid progress of the camp but i assures the erection of two more mills at once which entails the empl9yment of many new men and the opening of new mines and makes I probable that other mills long in contemplation will now be built t Operations at the Cannon shaft are going forward very favorably at present pres-ent The wire cable steel rails and ore car for which the company have r Ar J > c = i W been waiting for some time arrived from Dugway several days ago and are now in use The shaft is going down rapidly and has attained a depth of 75 feet The Fisk mill operators at Ophir are having a road dug out in the snow to the Chloride Point mine where 500 tons of good ore have been piled and on the dump during the winter before this reaches the reads the mill will probably be in operation again There is a large amount of fine and milling ore developed in the mine the Fisk people expect a very profitable profit-able seasons run |