Show LITTLE BELL CLOSES DOWN Accident to Hoist the I sume Tuesday Morning Owing to the bre breaking king of a pinion wheel in n the gear of the hoisting engine of the Little Ben Bell at Park City on Thurs Thursday da day the mine Is closed down for tor n a few days dus SuperIntendent Henr Henry Jones who came down from camp on the night train found yesterday that it would be necessary sary to have a new one cast but the foundry promised to have It out today toda In the meantime advantage Is being taken of the shutdown to make malte some general repairs to the hoist and to connect up tine new compressor and boilers By Tuesday morning Mr Jones expects to have everything in running order again and with th the added and needed power that the fine new compressor will supply ho he will be in shape to accomplish more than he has heretofore been able to do doA doA A powerful air drIven hoist Is bein being In Installed Installed stalled In the western portion of the mine on the level and within the corn com corning ing week sinking will begin there The mine this the superintendent never better than it does at the pre present ent time and It will not be a great grent while an entirely new hoisting engine of great gnat capacity will be required to handle the ore from the tho mIne Continued on Page 7 I F MINES I Continued from Page 6 r THREE LIVE MINES AINES IN MANHATTAN CAMP There Is no trio of or properties In camp whose tonnage is being In Increased increased creased c on a ratio rato with wih the output iron fron the he t Stray Stra Dog DoS Indian and anc Jumping Jack There is a strong probability that hese these t claims will wl be consolidated c a ted with Urion No 9 forming one o c of the most valuable mining estates o in Nevada At t a depth of lOu 10 feet feo In Jn tho the Stray StrY Dog working a crosscut is bun run out to intersect Inter i the rich ledge which nt Is l i being worked so successfully in the level leol above A recent shipment of tons netted the company over r and as a i It t is only a question q esl n of ot days until the Vein elu is once more mor tipped tapped it I is safe ste to TATe pre dict that ore are shipments will wl be Jre augmented before the close clo of the he pres present present present ent month Mining rn m n are watching de Id at the Stray Dog with wih more than ordinary interest and predict pre one oue of the greatest gold strikes in tho the history of the camp c mp when the ledge is in tapped tal at the level At the Indian Camp mining effort aside a ie from that being performed on company account is confined to dry washing in iii tho the I gulches traversing tho the property the hl work wi in every instance in tance being done by leasers Tho Th auriferous surface being deposits give gle an as L average yield of ot an of gold dust lust a a day lay por nor man mun and as t te e nuggets arc aro ae in invariably Invariably variably associated n with vein matter it ii Is a well wel demonstrated fact mater that the th I cleanup is quartz gold not placer rh r gold Jold Development on al Oh company CP flY account is be ing furthered with wl the object of prop lug ing up the ledges from Crom which the gold found in the gulches was washed and the management announces announce that success s is being attained A large amount of or mill grade gade quartz is piled pied on the dump and as depth is gained tho the gold values are in Increasing increasing creasing Development of or the Jumping Jack mine is being watched with wih an interest equally as keen as that which attaches to 10 opera tons at uit ti t the tile Stray Sla Dog Ore of high value Is being sacked with daily dal regularity and the quartz not IlOt infrequently returns assays assa s ss as is s high as 1000 10 in gold to the tIle ton Ship ments mauls from the property prop during thirty days da s returned a net value to the com corn company compan pany pan p of a trifle more than 20 and it Is estimated that the production pro for tor Sep will wJ have a total value of clos to 50 Wherever opened tho the ledge is a prolific of grade gold values alues and aside from that class cluss of quartz an un enormous tonnage of milling ore is blocked d out in the workings the same satisfactory condition being true of the tile Stray Stry Dog workings |