Show THE CHIEF CON REPORTS the report of the chief con coa mining company of the tintic gintic district for the first six months of the year is out there were shipped tons of ore assaying ounces gold 2137 ounces silver and per cent lead yielding net gross value per ton was 1485 from which was deducted for freight sampling and smelting smelling sm elting a ton giving a net of the net profits for the period were walter fitch president says in his report very substantial progress has been made in the opening up of the mine the footage of development work for this per period ad being over three times as much as for the same time last year and a product of ore nearly four times greater the values contained in the ore have averaged very much lower this partially results from a system adopted of mining all the quartz encountered in the operation of this became necessary because of the lin impossibility possibility of following the ore in every case in any other way the reserves or ore now exposed in the mine are very satisfactory and such as to give assurance of a steady product and earnings and the regular payment of dividends 11 cecil pitch fitch superintendent says the plans for the rapid opening of the mine were continued and all the work bl in this line and also in opening out the ore was done to the limit of the shaft capacity it is hoped that an opportunity will be found to stop the work long enough in the next six months to permit of the corn com of the widening of the upper part pait of the shaft so far it has been impossible to do this when this work can be carried out it will permit of putting on of th the e second cage and thus nearly doubling its capacity and allow of a larger production of ore and also of the carrying along of an increased amount of development work of which therne there is a large amount to jo do the crosscut to the gemini mine was completed and much benefit is being derived i from the better air in the workings besides furnishing a very necessary second outlet through that mine and also this drift supplies the opening for the carrying on of work in ground very promising for ore not heretofore available the length of the crosscut is 2135 feet there has been aa a large increase of the ore in sight there will be no difficulty in maintaining the present product and it is hoped that in the remaining six months of the year the values will improve j |