Show CAVE BELOW SIOUX 1700 LEVEL RECALLS ONE OF YEARS GONE BY officers of the sioux consolidated company are making plans for two important pieces of work on the 1700 level a drift having been sent over into their property from the iron blossom several weeks ago while a was being sunk from the 1700 level a rather large cave was encountered and it will probably be necessary to install a larger hoist before this piece of sinking can be resumed manager birch al also also has planned to follow a stringer of ore which shows in the southwest part of the sioux at a depth of 1700 feet this excellent showing being out toward the line dividing the sioux ground from the empire mines the cave found in the sioux while it apparently contains no commercial ore is well mineralized and it brings to mind details of the biggest strike ever made in that part of the district when the knight people found a large cave containing high grade lead silver ore in their iron blossom that was the first time in fintics cs history that it was possible to learn immediately something about the dimensions of an ore body the cave being large enough to permit miners to walk over the ore for several hundred feet it was this iron blossom discovery that extended over into sioux consolidated ground and resulted in the heavy dividends from both mines the old slopes are far above the place where work is now being performed the present campaign of development work in the sioux is the deepest work that has ever been undertaken there and it holds out great promise eureka reporter |