Show 0 BUYING HEAVY DRILLS herald wells nev C M spence one of the well known mining operators of eastern nevada crime came in from sprucemont Spruce mont last friday evening and departed on the first train for salt lake city mr spence went to zion for the purpose of purchasing a heavier drill w with ith which to pursue his operations at spruce for several months he has ha been engaged in sinking a shaft on one of his most promising properties on the mountain this shaft has been completed to a detthof depth of four hundred feet and crosscutting cross cutting to tap a ledge at depth has been finished to an extent of more than forty feet after the shaft was completed and crosscutting cross cutting was commenced it was found that the air drill used for the work was not heavy enough to bore the very hard formation with rapidity and economy and it was for the purpose of buying a heavier machine that mr spence went to salt lake at the bottom of the foot shaft a station has been cut and the work of tapping the ledge will be prosecuted as rapidly as conditions will warrant the entire shaft is in very hard rock and is one of the best in the state 0 |