Show TO BUILD 35 MILE PHONE LINE the leadville mines company located 35 miles mile s from gerlack nevada on the western pacific will build a telephone line from the mine to gerlack while at the mine last week general manager A A codd let a contract for 1000 60 foot poles for the line mine operations have ha ve long been retarded for lack of quick communication between the mine and gerlack the point of receipt of supplies and shipment of concentrates the new line may also be used by ranchers and others along its right b of wa way y that section of the country having been ion long shut off from rapid communication muni cation with the outside world the sinkin sinking of the shaft at the leadville is making good progress at latest report it was 60 feet below the foot level it is proposed to sink to the foot l oot level but a station will be cut at the aco and a drift run in under the ore body on the foot level when the mill shut down owing to the extreme cold weather there was a considerable amount of ore broken down enough it is said to run the mill 60 days during the week of the shut down a new ore body was entered that carried about 60 ounces in silver this with the lead content brought the mill head to about 60 a ton as a against a former value of 35 of gold old silver and lead content con teni the managed management ent announces announce es that when the mill starts again on march an ore reserve of about 1000 tons will be in si sight 1 an ore pocket will be cut when the foot level is reached and another drift will be run u under the one from the and by raises to the all ore will thereafter be taken out through the foot level the plan is ib to keep one shift at breaking b ore and on one e shift in sinking the shaft shaf t durin during b the shutdown shut down of the mill several changes b are being made with the purpose of increasing i the mill capacity from about 30 tons daily to between TO 40 and 50 tons toils the two trucks owned by the leadville have just completed ha hauling tiling in one carload of coal and one of oil and taking out a shipment of 25 tons tolls of concentrates that have been shipped to a utah smelter it is expected that this shipment of concentrates will ivill run considerable hither higher than heretofore as the last two weeks mill run carried a large percentage of the 60 ore |