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Show AT THE VICTORIA. Driving for an Opening Through the Nine-Hundred Level. Tho Reporter, telling of the week down at Tintlc. says: J. C. Sullivan of tho Victoria Vic-toria says that the work of sinking tho wlnzo from tho SCO-foot level Is now in progress and that a force Is also at work In tho ralso from the 000-foot level. Tho SOO-foot level on the Grand Central, through which tho Victoria is being worked. Is an Intermediate level and consequently con-sequently the management of the former property Is anxious to get an opening through to the 900 level, us this will greatly great-ly expedite development work and open up sloping ground. Tho last shipment from tho Victoria amounted to six carloads car-loads of a splendid grado of ore. Thero Is plenty of room for tho storing of the oro underground and consequently it is not sent out until several carloads havo accumulated. As predicted a short time ago, work has been resumed at the property of tho Dakota Da-kota Mining company (thf old Buckeye) rear Diamond. The company Is figuring on purchasing tho hoisting plant of tho old Cleopatra mlno at Silver City, and If this machinery Is secured tho shaft will bo put down a couple of hundred feet further. James Illggcnson of TCureka Is In charge of tho work, which Is now carried on only In tho upper levels Several sacks of high-grade oro wcro recently re-cently stolen from one of L 13. Rlter & Co.'s warehouses at Silver City. Tho ore was not owned by tho nbovo firm, but was held as security for merchandise. It Is thought that tho oro hns been cached In somo old shaft or tunnel near Silver City, but Sheriff Whitehead, to whom tho theft was reported, has been unable to locate It up to this tlmo |