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Show MINING SIMM. IKY LITTLE COTTONWOOD. COT-TONWOOD. For lue Week Ending September 9B. LWINA. , -Tunnel in nearly 300 feet working two labor shifts and intending to work through the winter. FLAGSTAFF. As usual taking out ore in quantity at option. A wiro rope is te supply the place of a hemp one on the tramway. E3I1IA. No diminution in the yield and shipment ship-ment of ore. Work will soon be resumed re-sumed in sinking the main tunnel shaft. BRUNO.- 2a slatu quo, i. e. idle, but as the owner has returned from the east, and as there is a body of good ore in sight, we presume that work will be recommenced." OHIO. Shipping ore in small quantity to the smelter at Truckee, Nevada, where as the superintendent of tho mine informs in-forms us he gets a considerably better price for ore than in the east or in this Territory. CALEDONIA. Work has been resumed upon the shaft to tap the old incline, and preparations prepar-ations are being made to continue it until a connection is effected, aft?r which there will be no serious obstacle to the further development of the mine. WINSOR- TJTAn. Thia company, besides mining and shipping a considerable amount of ore, aro pushing ahead preparations for winter. The superintendent informs us that it is his intention to have every thing in readiness before a blockading storm sets in, to mine continuously with a full force of hands during the winter. EMMA HILL CONSOLIDATED. Valleys yielding ten tona of moderate moder-ate grade ore daily. Wire suspension tramway finished and in operation. Illinois and Chicago tunnels being pushed ahead aa fast as possible. A connection between the former and the Cincinnati shaft will soon be effeoted. Work has been com me need upon the appropriately named Summit mine. SALT LAKE JIININO COMPANY. Tunnel in 100 feet. At fifty from its mouth a nearly perpendicular shaft, is being sunk between well defined north and south walls, 'ihe vain matter carries a small irregular stratum of very fair ore of which there are several tons on the dump. Two shifts of hands are steadily engaged in sinking the tunnel shaft. SOUTH STARTITUS Two shafts down, each 140 feot, on each division of this mine with a consolidated con-solidated oognomcn. The drift from the bottom of the South Star shaft has been run 100 feot on the line of an immense lode. This lodo is twenty feet wide as at present developed, is an almost al-most solid mass of first class carbonate ore, and is of indefinite width, as at present at no place in the drift has a foot wall been encountered. A tunnel is being run, surveyed to tap the lode at a depth of 200 feet, which when completed, will greatly facilitate and economize the extraction of ore. Ten tons of first class ore are now daily hoisted through the shafts, but when tho tuonel is finished fully fifty tons daily may be mined and deposited on the dump, without any increase of present aggregate expensce. The amount of oro in this mine in plain sight and in palpable prospect is so enormous, that to particularize would probably subject us to the oharge of exaggeration. The ore is high grade, of a remarkably even average, very facile of reduction, and in brisk demand de-mand for oh, at maximum furnace rates. MATILDA. Shaft down eighty-five feet. The southwest drift from bottom of shaft has been .run thirty-five ieet on an almost solid lodo of oro twelve leet in width. The N. E. drift is in twenty-five feet following a lode four feet in width, without any distioot walls These drifts at no point in their courfio show any indication of tho giving giv-ing out of tho lodo, but promise the devolopomcnt of a lode that in extent and quality of oro will rank with the largost and richest on tho hill. Work, which was temporarily suspended by judicial embargo, baa been resumed and will bo steadily proscoutcd. A tunnel tun-nel will be immediately commenced on the line of tho Davenport tramway to tap tho lodo at a considerable dopth below tho bottom of tho shaft, and when completed, the ore mined will bo delivered at the foot of tho hdl by the tramway. This indicates a sensible settlement of tho disputo with the Davenport without tho ruinous help of the courts. From twenty to thiry tons of ore per week are hoibtcd through the shaft. As before stated this ore can bo cattily milled, as the amount of lead it carries is so small as not even to re-quiro re-quiro elimination by roasting. Sample assays from bulk show first-class ore to be worth $1'j0 per ton in silver, and second-class $125. |