Show BLAINE IS PRODUCING Will Soon Ship 200 Tons of Lead and Silver TUNNEL REACHES THE LEAD Good News From Erickson Mining Properties Leamington CutOff Hns Reduced the Haul and Made Ore Shipments a Possibility The manner In which railroads come to the assistance of the mining industry indus-try will soon he cogently Illustrated at the Blaine mine in the southern part of Tooele county near the Juab line The Elaine is owned by the Blanc Gold and Silver Mining company of which W D Mathis the druggist is sect etary The superintendent B F Fleincr who came in oft the omit yesterday stated that he had out between fifteen and twenty ions ot ore which will average aver-age about 50 per I cent lead 10 lo 12 ounces in silver and 2 In sold There is plenty more he says where this came from and as soon as 200 tons can be accumulated the largest shipment yet made from this section of the country coun-try will be recorded Ills reafcon for desiring a good big Icit of ore iS l Hint there is a thirtyMvemUe haul to be met bcfoie the rock can be placed in the cars and teaming contracts con-tracts cannot be made to advantage on a small tonnage The nearest shipping point Is Jericho siding on the Leaming ton cutoff of the San Pedro Beforetime Before-time cutoff was built the Blaine was fifty mlle from the sound of locomotive locomo-tive whistle with a road that lay chiefly chief-ly uphill The way to Jericho on the oilier hand slopes downward from the mine Ills the cutoff which has made the contemplated shipment possible and there Is no doubt that the same benefit will be experienced by other promising prospects along the line before be-fore many months have elapsed The BInine ore Is taken from a thirty nvefoot vein which has just been tapped at the end of a 025foot tunnel Mr Fleiner has no positive knowledge ns to the thickness of the lead at that point as It has been penetrated for only a few inches by the tunnel hut he formerly for-merly worked It through a shaft which was put down over 200 feet When water wa-ter was encountered the tunnel was begun be-gun and the connection has recently been made with the ore body The breast of the tunnel Is lifiO feet from the surface and 100 feet belo the bottom of the shaft The superintendent thinks time vein can he profitably sloped all the way to the surface The development has been very tedious tedi-ous because of the poverty of the company com-pany Since February two men have been doing all the work and what they have accomplished is remarkable Now that the permanence oC the mine seems assured more money will be asked from the shareholders and the valuable lead and silver deposits exploited for all they are worth Close by the maine to tlc west Alvin Al-vin Anderson and Iohn Davidson have put down a abaft thirtyfive feet getting get-ting ore that strongly resembles the find In the ElaIne I A couple of weeks ago Mr Davidson got leaded through working In dry ore and was obliged to come to Salt Lake for medical treatment treat-ment A little farther from the BlaIne Is the Utonlan In which E G ODonnell is so heavily interested Mr Fleiner says the Utonlan has a lot of goodlooking1 ore piled away and predicts that it will soon follow the Elaine Into the ranks of the producers I II |