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Show SHOSHONE TALC ORE JUST QUARRIED 001 New York Offices Issue .Statement .State-ment About the Mine. Conditions. The Xcw York Commercial of roccnl dati says the biokors and Lho mining: traders of late hayo boon hearing a pood deal of gossip In rcirnrd to the Montgomery Montgom-ery Shoshone, and th operation of Us mill. It concluded that a good deal of smoke indicate- some fire. The. gossips have it thnt the company is short of water, wa-ter, and that tho sliming of the or makes n hlph recovery difficult, snys the Bullfrog Bull-frog Mlnet. The Commciclal. to learn the other side ot the- story, visited the company's ofllcc. In New York, and wa. there told practjcully the true stnto of affairs. The statement Is as follows. , "At. the company's New York office the statement If. made that the company is powerless to control gossip. The farts, it Is said, show thnt the ores havo slimed moro than originally expected, but additional machinery was put In several months aco to overcome, this defect. The officials hore ore getting no word from Uio mines except that the showing -or March will no doubt exceed that for February. Feb-ruary. As for beinfr hort of water they say that they ar now pumplns more water wa-ter from the mine than the mill can uo. "From the camp comes the news that tho talc deposit at the Montgomery Shoshone, Sho-shone, the strlklnp of which was one of Ihe principal features of the early development devel-opment ot jthe camp. If. quarried out nnd shipped without sorting, to Salt Lake City. Tho work nl the tunnel level Is belnp confined to tho body of talc. About 75 feet under cover. topes wore started and ox tend od lo surface, and at this time tho open space Is about 150 by 100 feet, with w.ills from 35 feet to 50 foot In height, surrounding the floor. The tonnage ton-nage which has been taken out of this space has been trammed to the bins and loaded Into cars for shipment to Salt Lo.ke City, practically without sorting, the only waste being an occasional boulder of rhy-ollie. rhy-ollie. the boulders being found Imbedded Imbed-ded occasionally In the talc. "Jt Is a surprlso to thoso who havo not visited Hie Shoshone within the past few weeks to find such a larca chamber, extending ex-tending from tho tunnel level to the surface, sur-face, for there Is no Indication of 5uch a. hole In the ground, viewing the mine from the wngon road bc-iow. Tho dimensions dimen-sions of the chamhor are being extended rapidly, both in lateral dimensions and In depth, miners being employed In un-derstoplng, un-derstoplng, and In extenrtlg the walls of the chamber hack toward the country rock. "Tho values In the talc oro hody mnge from $40 lo 3100. as an average, and from this point Ihe shipping ore Is being taken at the rate of about three cars a week. Until a short time ago. u car a day was being shipped principally from this point. To the east and .north of the tnlc, on the main tunnel lovel, extensive lateral lat-eral work has been done, and stopes are i now being 3tnrtod for tli-; purpose of breaking down tho zones of mill ore In that part of the estate. On tho 100-foot level another Important develppment has taken place, the -west crosscut Into the Polaris having developed the second ledge of mill ore. which Is of a good quality. Tho flrfct ledge ic being followed to tho south, the lateral being out about 10U feet, and the values remain sntlflfactory. "Lateral work Is also being continued on tho 500 and 600 levels, and sinking la being continued from the 600 point In th,s triple compartment shaft. Numerous slopes nnd chutes Indicate the placing of tho mine In a position to take out a larger larg-er tonnage of ore, the mine now helng called upon for 150 tons dally. "With the present development, an output of 300 tons a day could be accomplished, while the work of blocking out on the various levels Is being extended so that a tonnage may be kept in reserve. The mill Is doing regular work With two shifts crushing, the plant Is handling 150 tons a day." Tl3 statement Is known here to be practically true. The mill in now treating treat-ing about 175 tons of orn a day, and Superintendent Su-perintendent Turner states that the extraction ex-traction is satisfactory. Instead of the company's being short on water, it Is not using ono-clghth of the pupply -which It has at command. A shipment of bullion bul-lion valued at from $25,000 to 530.000. a car of concentrates, averaging bettor than ?300 a ton, wore sftnt out this week, nnd the usual shipment of high-grade Is going go-ing out dally to the smelter- |