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Show LEW TIIIC PLANS HV LONG DUEL Known Veins Will Be Cut at Good, Depth by Now Working. Special to The Tribune. EUREKA, Nov. 27. It la the Intention Inten-tion of the management of the Lehi-Tintle Lehi-Tintle company,, whose group Is In north Tlnllc. todrlve an SOO-foot tunnel on the claims for the purpose of cutting some of the ore veins known to exist there. This tunnel will encounter the fissure had In the second tunnel and tho shaft north of the portal of No. 1 tunnel, tun-nel, at a depth of SI0 feet and at a depth of 100 feet it will go under the Incline shaft. Indications are that 'the claims contain the name kind of $re that .Is being be-ing taken from the depths of the Ridge & Valley and Gemini mines. The properly prop-erly is well equipped with machinery to carry on extensive tunneling, and arrangements ar-rangements will be mado to secure power from the Theltna mine for the purposo of operating the compressors which Ihe company proposes to install In the near future. The claims are In an. excellent location and active development develop-ment work should disclose good paying ore bodies. Rapid progress is being made In mining min-ing the drifts on tho 700 and 1000 levels of ihe Tlntlo Standard mine,' they being be-ing driven north of the shaft. Considerable Consid-erable difficulty is encountered in tho workings of tho mine owing to the large flow of gas met with as depth is obtained ob-tained and also In the drifts, -notwithstanding the fact that the property is equipped with the most powerful blower in the state. As soon as this difficulty can be handled the force at tho mine will be increased. The shaft work at the North Colorado Is going along In fine- shape and Js now down over SO feot, and work wjli be kept up all winter., This week the shaft .at the Yankee Consolidated mine reached the 1300 level, and Ralph Kellogg and Sam Scott have taken another contract to send it down 100 feet further. A drift will bo run from the 1300 level for the purposo of draining the shaft of the water which has accumulated. Albert Larson, a former resident of this city. Is now superintendent of the lTnion Chief mine loca.ted In the Sant-aquin Sant-aquin district. Tic was In Eureka" last week and makes the following report from the property: "At the Union Chief about 4500 feet ol development work has been done during dur-ing 1 Via nasi seven or elirht years and now the ore has beep opened up to such an extent that all prospecting has been stopped and the force oi six men put to work upon the ore." A large number of Eureka people have invested in the stock of the company and are pleased to hear that Mr. Larsen is making rapid progress with the development de-velopment work. The shaft al the Victoria, workings on the Eureka side of the mountain is now below the 1100 level, and as soon as a sunep Is cut on this level sinking will be discontinued for the present and development de-velopment work will be commenced to reach out for the ore bodies lying near the shaft. Superintendent J. C Sullivan expects to havo the shaft work completed com-pleted this week, when splendid reports may be expected from the property. The old Susan property at Silver City Is proving a bonanza to Frank Thofn-berg, Thofn-berg, who will be on the ground in a few days. He will make .a fifty-ton shipment and. has now enough ore in sight to keep up regular shipments. The "ore is of a good paying grade and is producing good bread money. The property prop-erty is owned by the Cllft Mining company, com-pany, on which Mr. Thornberg has a year's lease, at tho expiration of which, from the splendid showing being made, the company will take a hand and com-mence com-mence active development work. , |
