OCR Text |
Show FOREIGN MINE EXPERT ENTERTAINS MODENANS. Special to Tho Tribune. I MODENA, Utah, April 1C Ganga of Austrlans and Poles nro passing through almost dally from tho north, bound for the terminus of the San Pedro where they work on construction. One would hardly seek an expert miner or look for much intelligence among the individuals that usually comprise . a construction gang. In a crowd that passed through there yesterday yes-terday un exception was noted In the person of August Dumbrowskl, who when the train stopped amused some of the local mineral seekers by his remarks on surface Indications which his trained eye noticed nearby. The curiosity of one of the prospectors being aroused Dumbrowskl was questioned, and It was learned that he was a mine of wide experience. ex-perience. Interest centered in what he said chiefly on account of his description of tho deepest holo in the world. Dumbrowskl, in addition to his experience ex-perience aa a miner of precious ores has worked in the. coal fields' of Paruscho-wltz Paruscho-wltz in supper Silesia, where there is a hole 6570 feet the deepest ever dug. He claims that coal has been mined there for centuries, and among the assets of this mine there are very few surface improvements. Tlie miners and their families, lead a subterranean existence, fqod and supplies sup-plies being passed down to. the (depths along tho great avenues underground. The temperature is so warm, says Dumbrowskl, Dum-browskl, that no clothes arc worn by tho operators. They are. not permitted to emerge from the minc3 for .several months at a time and their long confinement con-finement In such a locality and-atmosphere gives them a ghastlj" pale color. a u Monday the sheep-shearing season begins be-gins and Modena will be a lively place, with fifty shearers, thousands of sheep and a number of wool-buyers in sight The total number of sheep that will be shorn during the ensuing six weeks will not be short of S0.000, and may reach 90,000. Sheepmen are expecting as good if not better prices than last year. The fleece is longer and cleaner, and the clip will be altogether better, the sheep being in fine condition and entirely free from ,scab. t i B. C. McDonough. foreman of the Johnny Mining company, has returned from his vacation at Salt Lake City and will resume his duties at Statellnc. " W. H. Webber has succeeded in securing se-curing control of both the Creole and Gold Haven properties, ht Stateline, and has placed a. force of men at u ork on the Gold Haven claim near the mouth of the Creole tunnel, where he Is engaged In shaping up and timbering' the old Gold Haven shaft from which the property will be explored. J. J. Trenam, extensively interested in copper mines in Beaver county, has returned to Stateline, whore he is making ma-king an examination of the Margaret mine. |