Show Tintic Mining Notes Eureka Reporter The of a portion of the shaft at the Swansea mine at Silver City Is now going on and as a result the mine wilt will not be In the list of shippers until this work Is completed John R B Vance returned on Monday night from Salt saut Lake where he went to attend a meeting of the stockholders of ol the American Mining company The American Amerlean stock which is now selling at 15 cents per share will be listed upon the Salt Lake stock exchange about the first of December The McKinley Mining company Is still at work sinking the shaft from the tunnel level leel The shaft Is now down a distance of about fifty feet and the Indications are very encouraging according to Pres President PresIdent ident W D Myers The company will probably put out In some kind of at a hoIsting hoist hoisting hoIsting ing plant as soon as It Is needed Superintendent John Roundy of the Beck Tunnel and Colorado properties says that the shaft at the latter is now down downa a distance of over feet It is the In Intention Intention Intention of the company com pan to sink to the or 00 level before doing any an crosscut crosscutting crosscutting crosscutting ting The Colorado gives promise premise of dup duplicating heating the wonderful record of the Beck Tunnel The cold weather this week has inter interfered interfered fared with the work of Installing the ma machinery machinery chinery at the Little Chief mine The carpenters have been unable to work and unless there Is a change chance In the Breather the new hoist and machinery macl nery will willi rot i ot lie be ready for tor two or three weeks The engine Is In place and the boiler Is part partly ly Iv bricked In while the building Is nearly ready The ITie drift from the new shaft reached within feet of o a point vertically below the old works which were abandoned because of the tile excessive expense of hoisting and other work under the old conditions It Is le confidently expected that the ore shoot will be cut at the Increased depth and that here hereafter after development in It will be accomplished accomplished at one half the expense which has attended development In the past pastA pastA A report was circulated in Tintic this week to tto the effect that a deal d was on for forthe forthe forthe the control of the Swansea Sw nse and the South Swansea Swans 3 mines at Silver Sliver City CIt but as near as g we have havo been able to learn there is no truth In the rumor It seems that about the only way that the mines could be worked below the water leVel would be to consolidate the two The two mines are arc connected on almost every level and If It either cither were to operate separately be below below below low the tho water level It 11 would mean the pumping of water from both and this is isa isa isa a pretty expensive proposition It Is reported that electrical equipment Is to be bo installed in the long tunnel which extends through the moun mountain tain tam to the tho mine With electrical equipment the ore oro could be brought through this thin tunnel thus saving the long haul by team around the moun mountain thin tain When the roads are in good condi condition condition tion Uon It Is not a ii difficult matter mattor to get et the ore to the railroad but there are arc sev several several eral oral months out of the tho year that the wa wagon wagon wagon gon road to the Carisa Is la almost impassable ble and during these months it is almost impossible to maintain the normal out output output output put |