Show SOMETHING ABOUT THE mamroth special correspondence mammoth july 14 since all of the salt lake dailies have made extravagant but erratic guesses concerning the deal on foot between samuel mcintyre and J A cunningham ning ham it is just as well that the mining review should publish the facts in the case because an accurate statement of the situation may be of interest on the first of the month when the ore hauling contract expired between the mammoth company and the new east tintic gintic railway mr samuel mcintyre in behalf of the mammoth company offered mr cunningham for his combined interests in the mammoth company and railroad mr cunningham declining to entertain any offer below the old contract had been on the basis of thirty cents per ton and mr mcintyre refused to make a new one at any price higher than twenty two and a half cents which mr cunningham cunning ham indignantly refused to consider whereupon mr mcintyre commenced the preliminaries in the matter of erecting the much talked of tramway yesterday the survey was completed complete ct from the mammoth mines ore bins to 10 the mill which gives a distance of feet showing a fall of feet in the meantime mr cunningham has gone to paris and operations erat ions in the way of building the tramway will go forward in earnest time will tell which side is bluffing after having cavino r been hung up for several days during a period of cleanup clean up and repairing the stamps in the big mammoth mill commenced dropping again wednesday morning don B gillies superintendent of the sioux utah companies left thursday for butte being 5 called there by his wife whose father james R boyce had suddenly died from a paralytic stroke mr boyce was practically a pioneer of montana having gone there from kentucky more than thirty years ago he has until recently been actively engaged in the mercantile business in butte covering covering a period of fifteen years while making a coupling 11 last wednesday mr casey cunningham manager I 1 of the east tintic gintic railway met with a painful acci accident which will probably result in the loss of the first finger on his right hand mr cunningham left for salt lake the same day the big ingersoll sergeant compressor for the black jack group reached here thursday and will go to the mine today the handling being in charge of frank schuyler gossips about silver city maintain that clarence E allen alien has signified his intention of resuming work in the cleopatra at once and that it will mean work too on quite a scale another bit of interesting news being actively circulated about silver is that Aless rs keith and kearns have put themselves in control of the sunbeam and that it will be in operation again very soon and in such a way as these gentlemen have the reputation of operating mining ground in the meantime whatever significance may be at cached to it the machinery over both shafts shaft is being bein looked after and both shaft houses are being painted wise ones say it means business at once foreman carruthers of the bonanza received instructions last tuesday from manager heffron heff ron to stop sinking in the vertical shaft and get ready to go over to the ledge col heffron heff ron is afraid of cutting a big flow of water and he wants to take a look at the ore bodies on the new level before purchasing the new machinery he realizes he will be obliged to have the shaft has reached a depth of feet from the lowest level which gives it an actual measurement of feet from the surface judging from the splendid ore showing on the and levels the change ought to be very flattering it is said the company contemplates putting in an electric plant and that the telluride power co has made an offer to supply all the power necessary for per month it is thought the coal bill alone has been costing to exceed per month both the showers androe and joe bowers are looking strong and healthy particularly the first named with excellent ore possibilities the diamond folks are deeply interested in the outcome of the bowers extension |