Show II j I DEVELOPING WATER RESOURCES j Flow From tl e Butts Spring Going to the Golden Gate I I Mereur Mercury A force of men was i put to work Tuesday developing the Butts spring up on the divide i Workmen are engaged in digging a I ditch from there to the Sparrowhawk spring into which the water will be piped to be taken out again at the Marion mill and piped to the Golden Gate where it will be used to run the steam hoist soon to be built and for I other mine purposes til Colonel Walls water system is completed Work has been commenced on the building wiiich Superintendent Kislingbury will occupy temporarily I will be 20x32 with a kitchen and porch attached A liner I residence will be built for the superintendent i superin-tendent later Considerable lumber is arriving for the new shaft houses and several more car loads are on the road 1 It is expected that the connection between 1 be-tween the north and south shafts will V be made any day now which will ventilate the mine and make room for more men Times are lively at the j Golden Gate and promise to be more so Iin f the near future i 1 Carruthers Brothers have taken a j I 1 contract to do over four hundred feet I of work on the Gold Coin group and are here preparing to get down to i > steady work The Gold Coin group > I Ls promising property and we believe I i the work mapped out will be sufficient I i to make of i a producing mine j i Chris Jocher was over from Shambip district Monday bringing some excellent excel-lent looking samples He reports hav4 i ing good assays from that district and j I also from Ereckson district where he I I j has been doing some prospecting He I loaded up with location notices and returned re-turned the same day The Mereur company nave put a force of men to work m the Nimrod the southwestern extension of their ground just above the Mattie 4 where I the diamond drill operated when the r VoTcbtt syndicate had the property II bonded was located and which founcj Salt and i the ore The Lake Mereur Railroad company will extend their I I line around the hill to this property at I once and It will not stop short of the Mattie 4 The new working shaft on the V Golden Gate has already reached a j depth of sixtyfive feet The contractors contrac-tors have so far encountered good i i ground anfl are making rapid pro1 i great gresfany new ore deposits are being developed de-veloped in the Mereur A mining man well acquainted with the mine in former 1 for-mer times valted it this week and said the ore now blocked out could not > all be extracted in the next five years The Magpie shaft is down now anout 135 feet The bottom is through the fossil i fos-sil beds mentioned last week but is I still in black shaltr or slate j Davis Holmes and partners are working on the Sunnyside north of I the Sunshine and expect to do extensive ex-tensive development there and on the I Gold Point during the summer I I The Geyser is running very steadily now and the results are satisfactory Ito I-to the management The ore leaches so readily that it is necessary to keep the crusher operating night and day i Walter Kavanaugh is working in the i Hercules district near Vernon where Ian jan j-an extension of the Mereur vein is j supposed to exist He thinks some I great mines will be developed there i The Cannon shaft is now down 170 Te i feet and good progress is being made A change is occurring in the formation forma-tion encountered but assays will be necessary to determine whether it is of an encouraging character or not John Trudgen came over from Ophir I Tuesday where he has been taking a two months lay off for the benefit orf I his health He reports that the Fisk I mill is operating very successfully or I Chloride Point ores and that two shifts are employed in the Ophir Hill I mill The concentrator is running i about half the time j The incline shaft from the bottom of the 250 foot incline on the Hillside ground which Mr Scheu has been sinking reached the ore this week and I it is even better in appearance than when first cut at the mouth of the incline < in-cline We have as yet seen no assays I Iirom the discovery but do not doubt I but that i is good pay ore The Hill ride will be one of the greatest mines I of the V camp General W H Penrose and Attorney I Street who are working thejGold Dust group were in camp several days during dur-ing the week While here tihey opened the vein at a new point where the ore I had a very line appearance |