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Show Yankee and Utah Con. Are Working in Very Good Looking Caverns. SO FAR, i0 ORES IN EITHER PLAGE South End of the Gamp Re-j Re-j sponding Well to New Special to Tile Tribune. Mf ISUREKA. Aug. 28. While tho miners HbI were at work in the shaft at the Yankee Kj mine tho foro part of last week they B; broke Into a. large cave, tho largest over H' opened up in this dlsirict, It being 400 Hf feet long, .175 feot wide and has a depth 1 of 35 feet and mav run deeper. The H, formation in which tho men were work- HL ing was lime and the cave Js a mass of KJI crystal, which indicates the proximity of H ore The development work at tho prop- j crty is of a very encouraging nature, and j with tho new lioIsL and new machinery B Superintendent Merrlman proposes to Hl place the mine In the list as one of Eu- H reka'a best producers. H A fine looking cave was broken into B at the Utah Consolidated mine last week, H which shows a depth of over fifteen feet, S but it has not been fully explored as yet. H The walls and rear of this cave arc of a fl loose formation, which is being timbered fl up so further explorations can be carried BBH on safoly. The floor of tho cave Is cov- BBfl crcd with quartz, and all indications point BBB to the fact that riches should be encoun- BBB'j tered in a short time. The cave was dls- BBJi covered whllo operating in the new tun- BBfi nel. which Is being driven 200 feet from BBX tho tunnel first used by the company, but BBflJ abandoned for the new one, so as to more BBJf speedily reach the old workings of the BBm property. The management of the mine BBJ s excellent, and the progress of tho work BBJ ls very satisfactory to the officers of the BBJ company. BBBj Rapid progress is being made in slnk- BBJ tllc shaft at tho Victoria mine, the BBBJi contractors having this week reached the BBJI 700 level, and will keep at It until tho BBB 1000 level at least is reached. BBBH On "Wcdncsdav the new hoist recently BBfl erected at the Eagle & Blue Bell prop- BBBB erty was piven a tryout In rhe presence BBfl of D. R. JIcKim, master mechanic of the BBBB 3?lngham Mines company, who was do- BBBfl lighted with the success of the first trial, BBBJI Work will now be pushed on tho prop- BBMV crty: a station Is being cut on the 500 BBBJH level, and In the raise, from the bottom BBJl of the shaft, a distance of ISO feet has BBJJ been obtained. BBW Work on the compressor plant to be BBJ) vacd Jointly by the Opohongo and Gold BBJl Chain mines is progressing In a rapid BBfll manner, the plant being erected on tho BBS site of the old Sioux mill near Mammoth BBfll City. The two boilers that were used In BBJi operating the mill will be utilized, their Bflfl'i capacity being 250 horsepower each, and Bflfljj the plant, when completed, will operate Bflfly fifteen drills in the property of the Gold BBfll Chain. Superintendent August Wether- Bflfllf shorn is operating a drift on the prop- Bflfl: ertv. driving into the -100 level, nnd the Bflflf showing ls of the finest. From the 300 Bflfl level, from which the present supply of BBJ orc 15 being obtained, a drift is being BBJt run Into the Opohongo mine, which prop- BflflJ erty will be operated through the work- BBJB ings of the Gold Chain property as soon BflMil as tne compressor plant can be put in BBJ'i operation. The future of the Gold Chain BBjf mine is assured, and, with proper dcvel- BBJj opment. will soon be In the list of Tln- Bflfl! tic's great producers. . BBJl The four claims owned by the Edmunds BBJj Exploration company, located in East BBjj Tlntlc, and on which last year 165 feet B3 of tunnel work was accomplished, will Bflll eoon ring again with the sounds of tho Bfll1 pick, drill and blast. Several of tho offi- Bfll clals of the company visited the property Bflfl during the past week, and were so Bfli pleased with the showing made so fur on Bfll the claims that they will at once com- Bflll mencc the sinking of a shaft to go at BBl least to the 700 level, and careful and BBl energetic development work will be car- BBI r'cd on Tllc cla'mf nrc excellently lo- BBI cated, adjoining the tracks of the Rio Blfl Grande railway, so shipping facilities can BjVJn be easily obtained as soon as the ore ls BBW uncovered. BjVJ Superintendent Frank Thornberg of the Cliff mine at Silver City, which he is Bflfl operating under a Ieaso. states that he Is flfl clearing about $500 per month lie has flfl a car of fine silver-lead ore ready to ship flfl to the smelter, and will follow up tho flfl . shipment regularly, for ho has plenty of flfl ore in sight. The south end of Tintlc, flfll It Is being discovered, since leasers have flflfl been operating tho old properties hear flfll Silver City, abounds In a fine qualitv of flflfl silver-lead ore, and the prospect of" the P old mines being revived in a short time is very bright. |
