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Show FREIGHTER'S FINE JOB. Dosert Driver Moves Heavy Machinery With Groat Ease. Dave Moon, the freighter who drives the big fourteen -mulo team, did a fine job in moving the machinery comprising compris-ing tho new plant for the Mayflower mine. The engine weighs practically lfi.000 pounds, and from the time Moon backed his wagon up to the car and began be-gan to load until the engine was at the mine, three miles distant, five hours had elapsed, and In three hours more It was on its foundation. After reaching the mine Moon unhitched three opans of mules, after sotting his hind wheels Into the ground, and hltchod them to tho engine, en-gine, says tho Rhyolite Herald. At this stage of the game Superintendent Bob Smith demurred on account of tho possibility possi-bility of tho mules becoming a bit too strenuous and dumping tho ennlne onto tho ground. "Trust me." said Moon, and under tho circumstances Smith had to. The teamster has tho mules so well under un-der control that he can move a load within an Inch of tho desired spot, and by their help he succeeded In doing In a few minutes what would havo required hours by hand. The performance was repeated re-peated the next morning with the compressor, com-pressor, weighing 20,000 pounds. The mechanics me-chanics Immediately went to work on the plant. The management expects to get the new machinery started soon, and will resume sinking and also continue the drifts with tho aid of the machine drills. Tho drifts on the 300 level are out about 52 feet north and south and both remain good In ore. with the averages as good as ever. Specimen ore Is also taken out, as has been the case since the high-grade was struck on this level. The new shaft on tho Mayflower has reached 160 feel. |