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Show MINING MATTERS. K. M. JT ones' New Elactrie Drill Tested this Afternoon Dips and Spurs. R. M. Jones of this city is coming to the front as an inventor. His latest device is an electric drill and the first machine has just been received here for the ReedJA Goodspeed Mining company. It is a great improvement on other drills, and one of the great difficulties diffi-culties with the old drill, the heating of the tool from its rapid motion aud the clogging: resulting from the accumulation of powdered pow-dered rock, i6 obviated by this invention, which supplies a stream of water automatically automat-ically and in sufficient quantity to keep the drill cool and free from grit. It was tested this afternoon and worked satisfactorily. Colorado People and Silver. The mining men and the people of Colorado Colo-rado generally are very radical in their views on tie silver 'juestion aul nearly tvry town in the stit; has a siier club with a lare ai d enthusiastic membership. To I Mitstrat : the extent of thejfeeling, on the I qu s ion, Si u Gins bury te'ls the following i storv: a short time a1 o a :arty of b( v nl traveling ro n from the eat, representing different fi m wc. e uii th- i way from Montrose , i Ourav, when th s 1 e queelijn c vne up o dl- u sion. 'lue travc'iug men ; we e . p to-.d to -lb'- r and a steal e nan n i the train t.-.egr p 1 d 'bUinfoi mitiou -hud, and when the. la del at Ou ,y nd at temple 1 to mak' s. e , the met " . h Use I I ;!). Br. "No sir, it teir f lv. r i - n t r d eaotieui tor you we w n't buy your go d;." The news of their ip osltioii t silver nad ; iTcn circulated among the merehants and th'V were unable to inik ' a single sale. On , arrivinir at Tellur;le and Ho their senti-i senti-i incuts 1 a I pr c ?id' 1 them and tl e were met with the Same replies and o tequcntly made n sales. The traye ers were thoarou: hly convinced that the '.W urice of silver had greatly depressed bU'ine s. Dips and Spurs. When piiver besan to decline and It was I feared that several mines in Colorado would have to close down, a number of joint ; owners hi the Last Chance mine at Creede i telegraphed FA Wolcott what to do about it. ! His reply was as follows: "Put on more men : increase the output I need the stuff." I The Rico ifcss. It is stated on good authority that some ! valuable strikes have been made in the Brooklyn mine within the last few days. Work on this property has been resumed only a few weeks, and the outlook for it is very favorable, and the Ophir district will take on new life, especially in the vicinity of Dry canon. |