Show WABASH MINE IS IMPROVING Manager Talks En Encouragingly Encouragingly Encouragingly of Progress of Development Marked improvement is resulting from the campaign of development now un under under under der way wa aj at the Wabash abash property In Park City and Manager Nicholas who has been spend spending spendIng spending ing two or three days at the mine returned Friday night firmer than ever everin everin in the conviction that the making of or a abig abig abig big producer is simply a question of time with everything favorable to the time being short at that The advancement of at development work for tho the past month has been com corn comparatively comparatively slow for the June month said Manager during the day Through the breaking of ot the compress compressor I or and the miners holiday eight or nine days time was lost but everything is along nicely again The main drift in tho the new or No 3 vein has now been extended feet and the face was showing considerable good ore Fri Friday Friday Friday day when I left the mine The vein is looking fine and strong with all of the gangue an Ideal quartz and It looks hooks as though a body of ot ore might be entered at any shot This drift Is being extended along the hang hangIng hangIng hanging Ing wall side of the big contact In Ina a few days we shall shaU crosscut near the face lace to the side to learn what change if any has taken place on Oil that side in the feet that have been driven en since the first crosscut was made and where the ledge was found to be 80 feet wide Back from the face of the drift feet we have raised between 70 and 80 SO I I feet and at a point 70 feet up we are arenow arenow arenow now drifting both ways in ore a con considerable considerable considerable I percentage percent ge of which is high grade We are getting stringers and feeders of ore are from the lime Ume beds alt all aUthe the time and It certainly seems as If I we shall strike a point where the real I bodies make before long We shall shortly start another raise from the main drift nearer the face anI see se how the country looks there At the same time we are extending the t e main cross crosscut crosscut crosscut cut Into new territory and while we have not struck anything resembling pay pa ore as yet the ground looks good Colonel has been making a close study of surface conditions at the property during this trip and he states that the mine workings are now reach reaching reachIng reaching ing a region which from a geological standpoint is just what it ought to be beto beto beto to carry car the ore There Is the black sparry spar lime the porphyry and the which are invariably In evi evidence evidence dence where large bodies of ore are make makein in any an of the big Park City mines and Colonel considers It impossible ble that the Wabash will fail fall now that it has opened the veins and found con can considerable considerable ore already He believes it simply a matter of or drifting raising and crosscutting to hit the place along the contact where the th ore shoots make and conditions are showing such rapid and favorable changes that he Is con confident confident confident of soon being able to tell his shareholders that the day of assessments is past pastI I dont want to say anything that will be misleading to our stockholders said Manager but I consider that now we in ground that ought to make a mine they the are en entitled entitled entitled titled to know just what conditions are I expect to keep them posted by b tell telling tellIng telling ing the plain truth as near as possible about conditions underground With that duty performed it will be up to the stockholders themselves to keep or dispose of at their holdings About thirty men are now employed at the mine working two shifts When Whenever Whenever ever conditions warrant it the number will be increased and the colonel does not expect other than that he will need to double up the crew before a great while I note a gradual Improvement all aU over the district said Colonel and I believe that jUt just as soon as the price of silver advances a few more points and lead shows a disposition to at least hold as good as it is at the present time Park ParI City will be em employing employing more miners than at any time in its history There is no question I be believe believe lieve but that the Silver SIler King is a big bigger bigger bigger ger mine today than it ever was I 1 am told that the is also mak making makIng ing lug a remarkably fine showing while the is tearing through new ground at a rate that Is sure to bring great results The Ontario and the Daly will soon be running wide open again and employing many men while the operations of the American Flag the New York the Keystone the Sil Sli Silver Sliver Siver ver King Coalition the Scott Hill and other properties will add materially to the camps prosperity I believe that by the end of this year at the outside Park City mines will be employing 1500 miners and possibly more |