Show around the state slate park record superintendent joe kemp reports conditions very favor lavorace fa vorace ar e at ar tiie the little bell A shipment of some fifty tons was made the past week and ore is still being t raised to the surface eleven men are doing prospecting work and the showing in various parts of the property are satisfying to those in charge the future of the little bell is bright deaver beaver press the robinson brothers obtained a new lease on the sheep rock mine on monday the terms of the lease are somewhat different to the last in that they have to do more development work than under the old one it is said that they have some of the richest rock yet discovered there going 1 11 in gold values to a hundred dollars a ton the new lease extends to november of next year eureka reporter the ore body from which the beck tunnel is now shipping quite heavily gives promise mise of going to much greater depth and for that reason a drift has just been started toward it from the level of the old no 1 workings of the mine about feet of work will take this drift to a point where the ore should be found providing the deposit extends to that depth and the management feels quite confident that the work which is now going on is pretty much on top of the ore body the showing of ore where it is being handled from the incline drift remains about the same park record ground was broken monday for what will be known as the uintah treasure hill tunnel which will connect with the level of the old treasure hill and the level of the balver king coalition since the acquisition of the former property by the latter company great ore bodies have been opened up and the tunnel now being driven is to facilitate development work and to give an outlet for the waste instead of hoisting it to the surface as now the tunnel will be about feet long and it is expected that it will be completed in about three months the mouth of the new tunnel is located just below the old creole dump park record fifteen men are at work at the daly work is being done on the level on what is known as the ontario vein considerable ore is being taken out and a shipment is now being made the indications are very promising and it is just a question of proper development to make the old producer product r as big as ever engineer 1 jennings col E A walls representative was at the property again this week but had nothing to give out for publication whatever plans the colonel has in view for the future development de of the daly he is keeping to hilm himself self but it is safe to predict that the property will be worked on a much larger scale than at present ana prove the good judgment of col wall when he invested in the purchase of the control |