Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-05-14 | Page 38 | April Was Smaller Nipissing Month

APRIL IS SMALLER IPISWlNIfii Company Had to Undergo Sev-. Sev-. eral Difficulties During the Period. There was shipped from the Nlplsslng property during April ore virlucd at $200,-507 $200,-507 and there was produced 282,507 ounces vrued at ?J1S,62S. Owing to the failure of tho custom power company to supply compressed air, operations were considerably hampered, resulting in almost, al-most, the entire discontinuance of mining operations for two wocks of the month. As a consequence tf this, production was less than the preceding month. The company's compressor was placed in operation op-eration and used In pumping, but as there was insufficient power to run the drills, production was derived almost entirely from the broken ore in the slopes. . Under the conditions which existed, development de-velopment work was not prosecuted to any great extent. In some stoping which was done on tho second level of vein No, 73 the lode, as broken, continued contin-ued from four to eight inches in width and assayed 2500 ounces of silver per ton. On vein No. 100 some very good results were obtained. Seventy-five feet of drifting was done on this lodo. with both faces showing ore from two to four inches In width averaging about 2500 ounces of silver per ton. At vein No. 122 operations have been confined to stripping the ore in a raise west of the shaft. The ore. which was encountered some months ago at a distance of forty feet below the llrst level, was developed to a depth of fifty-six feet, where It continues con-tinues to have a width of two inches, assaying 2400 ounces silver per ton. According to the report for the month, summer prospecting was to have been begun the llrst week in May on the southern portion of tho property lying in the vicinity of the Savage mine.