| Show UNCLE SAM TO SHIP AN AND D MILL ORE i eureka nev feb 11 the freight rates rate s and excessive sive smelter charges preclude the shipment from eureka of 01 any y ore that does not run over 40 a ton during the past year some of the best metallurgical experts including the e staff of john hays hammond have been carrying on experiments Peri ments with eureka ore with the view of finding the most economic method of handling it it is announced that ahe he problem has been solved engineer of the eureka eureka uncle sam will combine in the new mill soon to be guilder sunder construction the best of the john hays hammond I 1 fidelas beas with some of his own as the uncle sam ore differs a q r little from efrom that at the holly and other mines in the district duri n g the past ten days the development work at the nj acle ILI sam has been retarded on account of ne need ed of further entila tion in in the drifts and A new fairbanks 1 mors orse engine arrived in eureka a few days ago and will be installed to operate a lar large lare b e blower and suction ventilator in the opinion of engineer en b ineer Rosin shine the wade lode drift is now within 50 f feet beet of a larger body of shipping ore than has as yet been opened in the mine he also says that the main tunnel on the hamburg lode is passing through an excellent ore lime with evidences of opening into high Z 11 grade the face of this tunnel is now within feet of the point in the newly acquired hamburg claim with work progressing at the rate of 10 feet a day it will require about 60 days to get into the old hamburg workings where a large amount of ore was extracted during the early days of the ruine mine I 1 it is planned to make a shipment of high grade within this month it will go to the smelter at salt lake city this ore has been sorted from the several drifts raises and from the tunnel workings the lower grade is being saved as against the time of milling in the new mill next spring it is anticipated that a large amount of good grade milling ore will be on the dumps long before the the mill is ready as a con considerable considers sidera ble quantity is already in sight and mined it is claimed that the new mill will handle at a profit all ores running over a ton As the mining at the uncle sam is mostly by tunnel the cost of extraction is low |
