Show 0 improvements AT THE K K miner park city utah according to M J dailey superintendent of the silver king immediate improvements are contemplated at the kearns keith of a nature that will place the youngster on the lists as an extensive shipper of first class ore and keep the mill supplied with sufficient second class ore to tax it to US its utmost capacity for a straight twenty four hour tun run of all its machinery the improvements prove ments will necessitate a very material inci increase ease in the mining and milling force and are to begin within the next few days since the erection of the concentrator waste over the long in the hanour tunnel from the ore slopes to the mi mill has offered e difficulty with the facilities at a hand which rendered a large output for the ichie ahne impracticable with more than a i half aalf mile of track to be covered by the ore carstee cars the mine suffered a severe handicap thi Is 8 will all be obviated by a series of improvements which will begin without delay and will transform the property into an up to date mine in a few weeks A locomotive engine for drawing the ore trains will soon be in course of construction on the grounds and will be installed without delay for the accommodation of this engine the two or three thousand feet of tunnel track will have to be strengthened the work of track repairing said mr dailey which is to begin immediately will not with present mining operations and the usual output of cf ore will pass to the mill every day with the improvement in transportation facilities a system of improvements is to be inaugurated in mining operations that will not leave this portion of the work one ahil behind the other the old system of hand drilling is to give way to a system of machine drills which will insure a vast increase inthe in the production of ore A set of two boilers is to reinforce those already in use and furnish power for the new compressor which will convey the power to the curleys burless hur bur leys with the installation of the compressor an line is also to bo put in to furnish fresh air and place the mine in first class sanitary condition after these improvements the areas of shipping ore will be worked and undoubtedly the kearns keith will become a great producer cf this grade of material and milling ore will be brought out in quantities 3 that will tax the concentrator to the limit the material increase of the force at the mine and the mill which will vill follow as a natural sequence will undoubtedly add much to park cites prosperity the mill at present is taking in t the he neighborhood neighbor hool of fifty tons of ore and the major part of the machinery is working eight hours per day beginning with the first of june the tables and Hunting tons were operated sixteen hours in order to effect increased values in this way a substantial saving has been accomplished the tailings tailing formerly showed the presence of 5 and 6 per cent of values now they contain but 1 per cent of silver lead |