Show CAVE I3T THE LUCKY BOY IGeorge Olson Station Boy Killed Hock Falls 600 Feet Tl > e TIalley Ida Times has particulars particu-lars of the cavein at the Lucky Boy In Custer recently It says a great mass of rock bVokc loose somewhere above Jtlic No 1 tunnel and it shot roaring GOO foot down the shaft gutting It of stulls and timbers as It went Down at the loading station on the eighth level George Olson stationten der had just loaded the bucket and rang It up The avalanche struck the ascendingbucket somewhere about the sixth level and snapping the steel cable like a thread H buried the loaded bucket down the shaft Olson heard It coming and endeavored to escape But lie was too late A mo inent later the caveIn struck the station sta-tion with a force that shook the ground with thunderous swayand extinguished candles 100 feet away Beneath twenty feet of earth poor Olson lay solidly imbedded im-bedded his young life snuffed out like a candle An soon as the men above ground loarned the catastrophe they hurried down Into the mine by way of No 4 tunnel and thence down the slopes byway by-way of ladders The crew worked bravely and hard all night and until noon the next day to recover the body of the unfortunate boy at risk of their lives too for boulders were continually thundering down the shaft At noon the next day the body was taken out of the shaft It was not mutilated mu-tilated or mangled In any way except one of his feet which was badly crushed Olson had Crawled under the pump which stands on the loading station sta-tion and the pump and platform upon which it stands saved him from being mashed into an unrecognizable mass by the awful compact It Is feared that the boilers and hoist will sink SB there was a big cavein underneath them four years ago and they are standing on dangerous ground Ore and Bullion Settlements In the ore and bullion market the days settlements reached a total of I 4SilO divided as follows T R Jones Co Germanic bullion 7100 gold silver lead and copper ores 18000 Bamberger McMillan Gold silver lead nnd copper ores 11310 McCornlclc Co Mlngo bullion 3300 gold silver lead and copper ores 5400 In the metal market silver ruled at G1 cents an ounce lead at 4 per hun dred pounds and casting copper at 154 cents a pound Eomestake Shareholders The shareholders of the old Home stake company which at one time en Joyed considerable prominence at Park City but which bad been practically forgotten until the recent attempt to revive alt arc preparing to come together to-gether this month and everything now Indicates that provision will be made for Its further development It Is also the Intention of the shareholders to re duce the capital stock from 400000 of the par value of 1 to 200000 shares of the par value of 10 cents a share At the same meeting a reorganization of the board will lake place and with most favorably located ground the shareholders feel that there Js a possi bility of developing it into a productive proposition Mining Notes Harvey Mowry has gone to Fay Nov to begin his assessment work for the year The assessment on Ben Butler be comes delinquent tomorrow with most of it already paid in Harvey Mo wry has gone to Fay Net yesterday and reports profound sor row there over the death of Mr Daly J H Korty who is operating a gold dredge on Snake river is reported as accomplishing excellent results these days A telegram from Manager J E Bam berger of the DalyWest announces his arrival at Denver on his way home He will leave for Salt Lake tonight ar rving tomorrow The Highland Boy will forward an other carload of copper gold and silver bullion to the Eastern refineries today this being the sixth lot or nearly 370 000 pounds to go out since November 1st Fred T McGurrin who came In after a professional errand to the south yes terday says the referee before whom the Burning Moscow conflict will be tried will probably be designated to dayThe The Centennial Eureka reported with ten cars of copper ore from Tin tic yesterday and will probably close the month with a new record Reports from the new body on the SOOfoot level continue most gratifying Manager A B Lewis under whose direction the Imperial at Prison has opened up like a June rose is up from the south again and more pleased than ever with the behavior of his properties proper-ties The Red Wing at Blngham now thriving under the management of Mr Sapplngton has fifty tons of ore of good quality Jn transit The property shows a steady Improvement as work progresses Manager Weir of the AJax has re turned from that Tlntic properly and as already published in these columns says he expects to encounter the ore body on the 1000foot level some time next month The Ophir Hill of Opliir canyon reported re-ported al the Taylor Brunton sampler sam-pler yesterday with seven cars of con centraics from its mill for the en largement of which every preparation Is now being made Manager Hatfieid of the Black Pine group on the line between Utah and Idaho left for the property again yesterday yes-terday morning and before returning will probably arrange for a shipment of highgrade silver lead and copper ore Manager Gre6n at the City Rocks mine at Alta came down from that camp yesterday with another lot of highgrade ore lie will continue da volopmcnls through the winter hoping lo greatly Increase the output of the mine next year Ed Browne came buck from Sump tor Or yesterday and leaves for Colorado Colo-rado this morning to report to his as socjales on a proposition he has Just examined in the north At Sumpter he reports conditions save at the pro ducers very quiet From Neighboring States J E Wilson of Jackson Creek Hum I bolt county Nevada reports twenty I feet of good ore In the Tiger tunnel I An offer has been made and refused to bond this property for 100000 Manager White of the Nevada Copper company will have his fiftyton matte smelter in operation by another month I He Is now burning 25000 bushels of charcoal This will be mixed with coke j In equal proportions C M Sain tells the Reno Journal that Charles A Hitchcock of IIuinbohH j county Nevada will go right ahead j with his Iron mines This promises to I become an extensive industry There are between 30000000 and 10000000 tons j I of GO per cent ore In sight I Reno Journal Mr McIIenry of the Montana syndicate which iccently pur j chased the Blucstone mine from W A Ielloy of this city arrived from Mason valley last evening lie believes that hlfj company his secured one of the biggest copper propositions in the West m Two shafts have been sunk some distance dis-tance apart and crosscuts run The lead grot2 richer with depth averaging averag-ing over I per cent It Is at least three miles long and in places IB several hundred hun-dred feet wide A reduction plant will be built and steam substituted for gasoline for hoisting power Mountalnhome Ida Republican Dan Rebcr came in from his mine at Dixie on Wednesday and reports another an-other strike of a boily of rich ore In the drive at the 300foot level lie brought ilon some samples of the ore In lumps weighing twentyfive and fifty pounds The size of the body of ore has not yet been defined but an assay as-say revealed Its value aj follows Gold 22 ounces silver 1C ounces to the ton |