Show A prospective BONANZA in speaking of the kismet mine on the west dip of camp floyd district the mercur miner says in company with manager weir we ive paid a visit to the kismet this week although this is one of the latest properties on the west dip to be developed a large amount of work has been done and an excellent S showing howin 0 i made n ade work on the steam hoist was bel begun ou n last may since then the hoist has been completed an assay office blacksmith shop and several houses built connection made with the cigale pipe line and about 1000 feet of incline drifts and cross cuts has been done the hoist house and gallows frame are of a very substantial character and the steam plant is installed with the idea of the greatest economy of fuel only about pounds of coal per day is used the hoist house has ore bins which will be utilized in the construction of the mill and it is iq so located that ample room will be afforded for the tailings dump the incline is well timbered and laid with heavy rails and is now down feet drifts are run to the north and south on the and foot levels and these will be extended until a large amount of ore has been blocked out the hanging wall is the usual porphyry next this is several feet of black ore then comes a thin stratum of black lime next which is the altered lime constituting the gold bearing ore this oxidized ore is ia free from talc or clay and is of excellent leaching quality A crosscut cross cut on the foot level shows the vein to be twenty five feet thick cross cuts will be made about every fifty feet and if the vein maintains its present thickness it means an immense body of oxidized ore in the process of development several large fissures have been encountered running nearly parallel with the incline some of them are of large dimensions in one of them an employed was let down a distance of feet without finding bottom quite a current of air issues from them and this f fact a ct has been taken advantage of to secure ventilation for the mine the fissures are kept open and enlarged in places so that no necessity has yet been found for putting in fans the report that the company is planning for a mill is premature manager weir says that while they intend to build a mill in the near future it will not be until considerable more development work has been done he wants to have a large quantity of ore blocked out and be certain of the treatment required and then build a mill of large capacity development work will therefore go rapidly forward the coming winter thirteen men are employed altogether alt boether and chas lyman is foreman with jacob flyg as engineer As the strike of the vein runs runs across the property a distance of feet while the width is is about feet there is ample ground to develop the democrat of baker city oregon states that at the bonanza mine near that place the regular monthly cleanup amounted to about |