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Show AFFAIRS AT COLUMBUS CON. ARE BRIGHTER Many professing a knowledge of Columbus Co-lumbus Consolidated affairs assert that there are some plana being shaped up by the officials which bid fair to reduce tho difficulties of thi3 organization prac-etlcally prac-etlcally 100 per cent. Nothing tangible can be obtained to give any idea of Just what tho officials are lining up, but some believe that the indebtedness will be cleaned out, leaving tho company in splendid splen-did financial condition to proceed with the development effort desired, and that this will be accomplished without calling on shareholders for assistance. It Is stated that the plans aro progressing in a very satisfactory manner and that stockholders are to ba congratulated that order seems about to be restored to this organization. As far as can be learned tho effort of the present management is to get out at depth upon the resources had on or near the main tunnel level of the property during dur-ing the dividend days of the company. A narrow fissure, for instance, la being opened to the north of the old Holland ore body, three shifts being employed In sending the drift to this objective point with all possible speed. The Holland re-sourco re-sourco wap one of the largest and best over had in the mine, the present work Is being prosecuted on the 400-foot level below the tunnel, and there la on foot of first-class ora now ohowing In tho fissure mentioned. On the same level and on the west side of tho Enterprise flssurs there la an ore wmX. ncVSi.iexpoM.a that 13 th"o feet in width. This ore Is about the came quality qual-ity as the one-foot vein abova stated, or close to $40 per ton. These disclosures are vary encouraging-, as noither is yet at nt 80iie bl o30 ,n charge. Tho condition of tho roads up tho canyon ifimKf I3B?raontH tho Present time, but with the opening of the 1912 shipping season tho Columbus should bo' able to send down the canyon considerable consider-able good rock pending the result of this deep development effort ?0Vii0pJnent8 ,n th.Is company during the next few weeks Bhou d bo interesting fllJal-rfuJts wtH be awaited by an Interested with much Impatience. |