Show resumption AT FAMOUS ALPS MINE the reopening of the alps mine mine commenced under the direction of superintendent alex lloyd early in june has already made remarkable progress the property which is situated about two miles east of pioche nevada on the strike of the porphyry dike and attendant ore bear ing fissures is now owned by the alps mining company which is controlled by the lloyd mining interests and backed by capitalists of salt lake city the main vertical two compartment shaft which is 4 feet by 9 feet in the clear is being substantially repaired the new sets being composed of 8 by 8 and completely y lagged with 2 inch material the old gallows frame has been reset and a double collar set put in place in preparation for permanent and continuous operation A blacksmith shop is in course of construction and all necessary equipment is being added as needed for economical working of the mine A 32 H P fairbanks morse gas engine is already permanently installed which furnishes power to run the hoist and a two drill compressor which will shortly be added to the plant the hoist known as the west coast type has a lifting capacity of 2500 lbs ibs at the rate of feet per minute and is geared directly to the shaft of the engine A feature of this hoist is a mechanical reverse which adds materially to the ease and safety of operation era efa tion the complete power plant will shortly be housed in a building 32 by 30 feet in dimensions since commencement of work underground the shaft has been re timbered to a depth of 75 feet and the most difficult part of this work has already been accomplished when the foot level is reached lateral work will be commenced as at this point several promis promising incy g ore veins veins occur from these veins it is expected to extract ore for shipment and extensive development work has also been planned at this level from which a big production was made in the past from the level to the bottom a further feet the shaft is in fair shape and development at the lower levels will be governed by the opening up tip of the ore bearing territory above and the data thus obtained will enable the management to more intelligently follow and extract the ore bodies known to continue to depth the renewed activity at the alps mine brings to mind the vicissitudes of the high grade days of Pio pioche clie as the story of pioche has been closely interwoven with that of the alps mine which in those halycon days produced approximately a million dollars from a quartzite fissure vein of gold silver lead ore which was sloped out over a length of several hundred feet and to a depth of feet the necessarily inadequate methods of mining then the general practice could not cope with the decline in silver and cessation of operations became necessary not however until a large tonnage of material had been put on the dumps and stored as fillings underground all of this then second class is considered above ore now as the average beof of present day milling grade there are three levels in the mine at the and i foot points and extensive has been carri carried edon if from all these levels the yuba dike which has been the t it source of the throughout the pioche district 6 was intersected by a drift from the foot level at a point I 1 feet from the shaft and about 40 feet of work was ivas fi done on the contact with interesting results the dike wa ivas e proven by crosscutting to be over 40 feet in width and to be capped by the quartzite the further exploration of this porphyry dike should result in the opening up of additional bonanza ore extensive fissuring has taken place in the formation adjacent to the dike and three of the ore bearing fissures already proven in the property strike at an angle that should cause them to intersect at a point not far distant from the shaft and southwest of same development work is based on a close study of the geological conditions which has been greatly assisted by the intensive development of adjacent property caused by the discovery of the bonanza ore body of the stindt donohue lease and other important discoveries made durin during the past two years in close proximity to the alps mine ore when discovered in this area is universally high 6 grade carrying from 5 to 10 ounces in silver to each un unit it of lead content and in addition an appreciable value in gold litigation liti aaion which has held back the development of a number of good mines fell heavily upon the alps mine culminating in the wanton damage of the working shaft by the explosion of two boxes of high explosive within forty feet of the surface this litigation is now completely cleared up and the damage done to the shaft has been repaired paired d and w with ith capable local management the alps should shortly enter an era of profitable productive prosperity that ought to eclipsed eclips ef the fine record of its early days |