| Show ANNIE NOTES Rie richfield bield Reap reaper dr shift boss P D highlands only inspru instruction for descending shafts is hold on to the ladder the richest ore is always accompanied with black streaks the second with with red talc like layers and the low grade is a dull white the bullion is usually fine find the is zinc gathered in the cyanide rooms of the precious metals about is silver and gold the small rails in tunnel number 4 next to the lower one are being replaced by 16 pound steel as the mule cars prove too heavy for the lighter ones the mine workers make their home near their labor and as a result quite a town has grown up right over the mine it is everywhere known as upper kimberly the small amount of waste taken out of the mine is wonderful the policy of follow ing the vein has been closely observed and therefore only ore has to be taken from the diggings the cheapness of mining in the annie laurie is best illustrated when it is known that three shifts of thirty men each dig out tons of ore in twenty four hours and that too when it is being taken out in course of blocking out work the lower tunnel applies to the new tunnel just against the mill and a third of a mile below no 4 through which all ore is pow now taken to the surface it is being run to encounter the veins at a still greater depth than is yet reached the greater part of the ore now blocked out is of the loose sort and it can be picked out with little or no shooting in the lower workings however the formation is very hard and the vein regular and well in place the veins of the annie laurie are some of the largest in the state the leanest place we encountered in the mine was two feet six inches while a width of nearly forty feet of pay ore is found on the west vein between tunnels no 3 and 4 there are now two seemingly independent p bodies of ore in the mine with a wall of sixty feet of porphyry between bet vreen one is known as the original vein and the other as the west vein the latter is almost a blanket formation and dips with but 12 to 15 degrees angle the method of taking the top ore first is be being ng pur pursued S aed in the mine and a great many grass roots have been found in the ore the soil overlaying it is then allowed to come in and as a consequence a quarter mile strip on the mountain above kimberly has caved into the space left vacant the claim is often made that there isore enough blocked out to run the present mill fifteen years it appears to one unschooled in the matter that there is more than that the only ore that has been taken frd from m the mine as yet is what is absolutely required in the running of tunnels and crosscutting cross cutting the i vein |
