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Show ' THE COX. VIKGIM.V tGO 91 en Discharged ud Nome Work UeiuL' Uiscou- S.m Francisco, 12. A Virginia city diwpatch says: During Sunday and Mucday 2Gb' miners were dis-eharg-d from the Consolidated Vir-jpiiiui Vir-jpiiiui niiue, of which 198 had been enq.bjycd on tbe 1750 foot level and fitly -fight froin the 1850-foot level. There are but three men left on each shift in each level, tbeir only busi-i busi-i ness being to keep donkey engines I running to maintain the communi-i caiiun between the ditlerent levels without recourse to the main shaft. J. W. Mackey was asked by a reporter re-porter il there was any prospect tbat the discharged men would soon be rtii in ployed, aud Mr. Mao key said said tbat someof Item will bo wanted again eoon, but the majority will not. Tho laot is we have for a long time bad more men employed than were needed. Reporter Ia tbe vein pinching out? Mackey No; but the ore in the lower levels has become so poor that it doe? not pay to work, except in a few nlacp- Tha hpnt ia fin nrt. and lha rock bo ha l-d tbat six men cannot taso out as many carloads in a given titiio ae one man used to do. Reporter But there ia considerable good ore yet on the upper levels, iB there not? Mackey Yes; on the 1200-foot and 1300-foot levels there ia considerable ore, but tbe ground is constantly shifting and settling there, and the cost of extraction is consequently conse-quently so great as to leavo, but a email margin for profit. |