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Show WHITE PINE COMPANY WILL SINK SHAFT Having thoroughly proven tho magnitude magni-tude of the oro body on tho 300 and 600-foot 600-foot levels of their Ruth mine, where they have no less than 1,000,000 tons of copper ore blocked out for extraction through thousands of feet of development work, consisting of drifts, crosscuts, upraises, etc., tho White Pino Copper company people peo-ple will begin at once tho sinking of the shaft below tho 500-foot level and the opening up of the lower workings in tho same systematic manner as that pursued in tho development of thoso above, says the News of Ely, Nev. Two pumpH, one a sinking and tho other a station pump, arrived at tho mine Monday, Mon-day, and both will bo put In commailsslon Immediately. While the work of driving the shaft to greater depth Is being prosecuted, prose-cuted, an abundant supply of oro with which to provide tho plant spoken of by Mr. Flemmlng can be taken from tho up- per workings, Tho mine, wo are Informed, Is showing a marked Increase In tho valuo of the ore, and never looked better In Its interesting history of development than It does today. |