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Show Around the Mining World. ACCIDENT AT THE ONTARIO. Ineonrenlence and Delay Can sod by the Breaking of the Bis; Pump Shaft. The walking beam of the engine -which Tana the big Cornish pump in the Ontario haft No. 3, at Park City, broke Sunday night. The broken part fell down the thaf t, doing considerable damage to the pump machinery. The reserve pumps and tanks immediately were brought into service to save the mine from being flooded. While the first tank was being raised from the 1000 foot level, it broke from the guides and was not stopped until it reached the 600 footlevel. It tore up a considerable portion por-tion of the shaft.' The damage has been repaired and the new tanks are in working condition. A new walking beam will have ;to be procured for the big pumps from Ban Francisco and it " will be some time before it is in running condition. The Alice Mining Claim. Sam Thompson, who has a lease and bond on the Alice mining claim, located In Wood-aide Wood-aide canyon and owned by Charles Barni-cott Barni-cott and William Perigo, Is pushing develop, ments on that property with a vim. The haft he is sinking is now down about 135 feet and two shafts are being worked. As oon as the new commooeense whim arrives, ar-rives, and it is expected daily, another shift will be put to work, says the Park City Hecord. Mr. Thompson is backed by a Chicago Chi-cago capitalist, and the intention is to prove the value of their lease. The shaft is being well timbered, and everything: in connection therewith is first-class in every particular. iw " Some fine looking vein matter has already . F been encountered and the leasers feel cer- ' tain that depth is all that is necessary to I J find good mine. jj The Anchor Shaft. " A Park City papor speaking of the Anchor '' shaft says it has reached tne tunnel level and a monster station is now being cut. This will be one of the principal points in the mine and every means will be used to make it as convenient as possible. As soon as the station is cut and the shaft and station sta-tion timbered thoroughly, sinking will be resumed and the shaft sent into the depths below the tunnel level. The eight, six and five-inch piping for the water system from Deep lake have been laid and tested and are now being covered. The floodgate at the lake has been placed and everything is in readiness to lay the smaller piping as soon as it arrives and complete the eystem. No frospectlng will be done above the tunnel evel until the shaft aud station on that level . are completed. The Dolberg- Group. A new tunnel will be commeneed in the Dolberg group at Park City which will tap the lcd;re at a vertical depth of about 700 feet and operations on tho new tunnel will begin as noon as the preliminaries can be arranged and the contract let. The owners have great confidence in the shaft started last spring, but the large volume of water encountered com. pletely upset all their calculations, and as it would require some very expensive machinery ma-chinery to handle the water, the shaft had to be abandoned and the ground developed through a tunnel.' The Dolberg has a tine vein cropping oat and when it is cut at a depth will undoubtedly show good ore. Reported Strike in tlie Lucky Bill. A strike of fine shipping ore was reported to have been made in the Lucky Bill mine Thursday, says the Park JUcord, but so far the writer has been unable to verify the rumor. Operations at the mine for some weeks has been confined to drifting on the vein towards a chute of rich ore known to exist in tho old upper workings, and a strike has been anticipated, though it was not known whether the ore body eontlnued strong to the depth at which it would be tapped by the present working. It is to be ' ..i, hoped the rumor is true and; that this prop-' prop-' erty will at ohce join the ranks of the active producers. Next week the Record will give its readers the exact truth of the matter. The Delaware Group. Billy Woodward and Dave Phelan have made a tremendous showing in the way of development work on their Delaware group durlne the d resent summer, and have a most ' excellent snowing for a good mine. They have some very tine croppings at the apex of their vein, it being in the shape of pure quartz heavily stained with bromide, copper and chlorides. They are down 185 feet with an incline, the last VjO feet being in the vein, which has two perfect walls and is filled with vein matter that is all but ore ; in fact, it shows a fair assay of mineral. The outlook out-look is so extremely favorable that the boys expect to catch a chute of ore almost any day and are working like beavers. Strike in Aspan. A telegram from Gold Hill announced a big strike in the Alpine mine at Sugar Loaf station. Boulder county. A few days aze a new shaft was started near the entrance of the main tuanel, and yesterday mornine, at a depth of fourteen feet, a solid body of ore twelve inches in width was struck. The Alpine Al-pine is in the tellurium district in which the celebrated Ingraham, White Crow, Melvina and Livingstone mines are located, and bids fair to become one of the best mines of Boulder county. Specimens of Alpine ore can be seen in the show windows of the Bohra Jewelry company, corner of Sixteenth and Arapahoe streets, Denver. Park "Record" Crosscuts. There is now strong talk of the Glencoe mill being moved from Park City down to the Provb river, where plenty of water will be assured to keep it moving the year around. So far developments in the mine have not increased-the flow of water at all and the mill was forced to close down. Dave Condon baa been experimenting with one of Prof. Kimball's mineral locating batteries, and is ready to testify to the fact that the machine will locate ore without fall. He does not say whether he has located a big ore chute In the Creole or not. Mines and Miner. V D- Vaughn, a Leadville operator, is in the - ttty. David Keith, of the Anchor mine, it at the Cullen. J. C. Whiting, a Stockton mining man, is In Zion. John S. Lindsay, a Park City miner, is in the city. The Sampson mine at Bingham shipped 800 tons of ore last month. |