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Show 1HG GREAT IRK III EUREKA CAMP United States Company Has Been Spending Large Sums on Improvements. Mines Manager Claroncc E. Allen of tho United Stales Smelting, Refining and Mining compuny has returned from a tour of Inspection of tho mines and Improvements Im-provements to the properties of tho United States company at Eureka. Nov. Mr. Allen states that the office building, mcsshouBo, assay ofTlcc, storehouse, power and oil houses all havo been completed. com-pleted. The foundations aro ready for tho largo compressor and hoisting engines, en-gines, tho machlno shop Is In oporatlon, and tho bunkhouso and tho superintendent's superintend-ent's rosldonco will be ready for occupation occupa-tion within sixty days. The United States company Is spending spend-ing a vast sum upon their Eureka possessions?, posses-sions?, as is clearly shown by tho number of additions that have been made thJs summer. The exact expenditures are not stated, but It Is safe to conclude that they are groat and In proportion to what tho company Is certain In accomplishing ac-complishing In this old but rojuvlnatod district. By the llrst of the coming yoar thoro will bo fow nioro busy camps In the Stato of Nevada than Eureka. Mr. Allen states that tho Locan shaft building Is about completed, and tho bollors aro Installed ready for use. Tho management has started to open up tho Locan shaft, and the old pumps In this working havo been taken out In tho earlier days of tho camp tho Locan shaft was driven to Its present depths boforo water compellod an abandonment of this portion of tho property. Tho United States company will mako this shaft practically new again, and, as soon ns tho water has been drawn from tho working, the company will sink it to still greater depths. |