Show THE DALY WEST SHOWING jasper mccaskell an expert miner and engineer who recently severed his connection as superintendent of the properties ot the daly west mining company to take the of mines which are being developed by new york companies at cobalt came from the west on tuesday and has left for the diggings on the north says th the e new york commercial of the daly west mr mccaskell says that its condition underground is most satisfactory is and affords assurance of larger earnings with corresponding dividends no doubt than at any time in the last two years of the new strike on the 1200 foot level in which connection has undoubtedly been made with the main daly fissure the visitor says it has now opened into ten feet of ore which will afford an average of near ly ounces of silver with 20 per cent lead and some gold he regards the strike as one of the most important in the history ct that mine from which the shareholders have already been permitted to draw about in dividends the properties of the daly west mining company are fissured throughout their length by this artery from the dalys domains and in that stretch of country should be made as productive as it was for tile the daly management of conditions in the little bell fissure with which connection was recently recent lv made mr mccaskell says that exposed in 1 it ft at this time thile are four feet of first class ore which makes rapidly into bread money and which is affording a average equal to any which as been dug from it in the daly fissure the ground is virgin above the level at which the disclosure was bras made and upon the channel which i is affording so much the management is now raising toward the surface of the ontario drain tunnel which was overcome by a cave in last year the trav gler eler says gays that when he be left camp the foot station was being approached by the management and that he had no doubt that 1 1 the waters back of the point have been tapped by this time the main objective is the no 2 shaft which is distant from the foot station about 1500 feet A connection with this effected mr mccaskell says sailing beyond that point should be smooth meanwhile the management is reporting at the smelters shelters sm elters with a considerable tonnage of high grade silver and gold bearing ores from the and foot levels which have been practically abandoned when misfortune overcame the tunnel flooded them out and forced them to seek other workings it would not astonish mr mccaskell to see the ontario which is controlled by J B haggin and the hearst estate reappear in the dividend column before the expiration of another few months mr mccaskell will continue to serve the daly west as consulting engineer |