Show BRITISH COLUMBIA the evening star property near slocan city has resumed work ore struck on the eighth level of the rambler caribou mine at three forks several months ago has improved under recent development the ore disclosed at the outset was less than a foot in width but was reported to be bd of good quality the blue bell property near sandon is working two shifts with a force of forty five men three on the pump and one in the concentrator the ore being taken out is the oxidized ore from the surface and the upper workings A new pump has been installed and the levels from which water is to be pumped are feet apart on the incline reports of the silversmith mines for the year ended may 31 last shows receipts of from the sale of 2082 tons of ore and an expenditure and allowance of leaving a balance of the expenditures tures and allowances inc include lilae mining in ore mining expenses 20 development milling power plant general boarding house 2127 loss by fire legal operation of mine reserve for depreciation of machinery buildings and equipment the gain of in 1920 is comparable with a loss ot of in 1919 the silversmith mine near sandon has received payments for two cars of ore amounting to after deductions for freight smelting smelling sm elting and duty lot no 51 contained more than twenty eight tons and had gross values of and net value of it contained per cent lead and had gross value of 0 to the ton lot no 53 contained forty eight tons with gross value of and net value of it contained per cent lead and gross value of to the ton silver content of each lot was in excess of ounces to the ton the last two carloads contained forty tons each the net returns were the is thirty feet wide at a point in the four sets above the foot level A depth of seventy five feet has been attained in the shaft sunk from the 1000 foot level A drift is proceeding on the foot level to meet the raise that is to connect the and foot levels |