Show THE SIOUX consolidated reporter eureka utah while the output from the sioux mine is not quite as heavy as it has been during the past year about eight carloads car loada now being sent out each week there has been a marked improvement in the grade of ore which is how being placed upon the market and the smaller tonnage is bringing the company almost as much money as was received from the heavier some time ago then the working force is smaller at this time and the operating expenses are consequently lower the mine is now working about forty five men in the mining of the ore at the sioux consolidated mine superintendent erin W D loose adopted the system of keeping the workings entirely cleaned up as the work progressed and leaving much of the ore blocked out and as a result the mine yet contains some of the richest ore found in the famous colo rado sioux ore body the bulk of 0 the ore which is now finding its way to the market is coming from the level but as mr loose says ore is being taken from almost all parts of the mine the work of drifting over into the old territory of the sioux is still going on and this drift is now in a distance of about 1500 1500 feet from the shaft sixty or seventy feet more will take this drift directly below the old workings of the sioux and then a raise will be started for the purpose of making a connection and it is at this point that some ore should be opened |