Show SURVEY IS COMPLETED Profiles For t the OphirHercur Water System CAUSE SOME CHANGES WATER TO BB DELIVERED BY THE MIDDLE OF JULY Golden GateDeal Not Yet Settled Montgomery Mine Sold for Seventy Seven-ty Five Thousand Dollars Denny Sullivan Willie Foreman of the BullionBeck Some High Assays From Russell District Ores Alta Mine In Idaho Bonded General Mining News AH of the surveys for the water system which Colonel Wall and associates asso-ciates will put in for the purpose of supplying the Camp Floyd district have now been completed and the engineers en-gineers yesterday commenced upon the profiles of the work I Is anticipated that within the next week or ten days all of the elevations will be ascertained and the figures upon which the calculations calcu-lations for the system are to be based will be well In hand All former calculations cal-culations were based upon a rise of in the neighborhood of SOO feet from Ophir creek to the summit of the divide between the two districts but the survey sur-vey just completed shows that there has been a slip somewhere and the rise is 1033 feet This will necessitate a heavier pump than that first selected and some other slight changes will also be made In the system By going up the canyon for a greater distance than was at first intended with the head of the pipe line the height to which the water must be raised by the pumping plant can be reduced to 750 feet but the increase In the force and capacity of the pump must be provided for The lines run by the corps of surveyors sur-veyors show that the entire Camp Floyd district can easily be supplied with water from the system Unless precautions were taken the force at Mercur would be something tremendous I tremen-dous the fall from the divide by gravity grav-ity being one thousand feet No such force could be controlled and therefore the pipe line will be run along the divide for a distance of about a mile and then before the water Is thrown down tha hill toward Mercur producers produc-ers will be put on and by this means the desired pressure can be obtained at the town and at every property in the district Several contracts for water are new on among them one with Cap tain John R DeLamar Should he make a purchase in the district he will be ready to sign the water contract within a few minutes after his deal Is closed Rhodes Bros are to put In the system sys-tem and their contract provides that they must have the system In working order by the middle of July but the gentlemen are of the opinion that they will get It completed by the 1st of that month Active operations are to commence com-mence at once |