| Show rejuvenation OF THE STANDARD I 1 it is an old saying that a good mine is always a good mine but it is often the case that a producing and paying property is often neglected and finally abandoned as being worked out merely because de development and prospecting work is not kept ahead OL 01 the ore extraction every now and then we hear of a dead mine an old producer of note that has been resurrected and brought back to a paying basis by men who believe in the property and who are willing to do some work to prove this belief such a case is instanced in the standard mine at dodie bodie california concerning which the chronicle union of that place says twenty years ago the standard mine was played out to hear the knockers tell the s tory story but it has been coming back right along within the last three weeks foreman prank frank smith discovered a new vein on oil the level and has three shifts at work t getting out thirty to fifty cars of good ore every day although the main shaft is down 1000 feet this property has not been worked below the for many years since the closing down of the pumping association and it was generally conceded that the standard mine proper was worked out and most of the ore has of late years been taken out of properties bought in when it became the consolidated J C bawden who was foreman for over ten years and resigned last june was sure that the ore was all gone but F rank frank smith who has been shift boss and took charge as foreman on july 1 1911 thought different and has searched continuously for veins of pay ore with the result that the mine is again producing pay ore from the original old standard which has kept so many people rich and has kept bodie on the map the last fifteen or sixteen n years we hope frank smith will keep up the good work and find any number of new veins |
