Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-12-21 | Page 17 | Comstock-Phoenix Will Sink Deeper

COMSTOCK-PHOENIX WILL SINK DEEPER Superintendent Drysdale of tho Com-stock-Phoenix mine m tho Six-Mile canyon can-yon district states that tho work of installation of the new air compressor for thc operations of air drills and sinking pump has been practically completed, and that tho new equipmont will soon be in practical use at the mine, says the Virginia Chronicle. The company proposes to resume sinking in the near futuro below tho 550-foot level, which is now tho deepest working level, and where stoping has been under un-der wa3 for tho past sovoral months. A station for hoist is to be cut out on tho 550 and a winze sent down, and it Is hoped to ncquiro an additional dopth of 200 feet tho present winter. This will give two now levels on which to open up the vein that hns proved very profitably from tho surfaco down to thc o50, and will bo among t tho deepest workings cvor acquired in tho East Comstock country. Oro Shipments. J The "Utah Ore Sampling company yea- I tnrday released six carloads of oro from i Utah mines and one from' Novado. i Mining Notes." "Word comes from Butte that tho Davis-Daly Davis-Daly is now shipping 300 tons of ore a day, mostly from the Hespcru3 vein. F. A. Clark has completed arrangements arrange-ments for tho purchase of thirty claims, covering GOO acres of land, for the Amer ican Ttadium company of Denver. Tho M purchase was mudu from L. B. Hummond Kl of 3Ioab. WM A report received at thc offlco of th 9 Nevada-'Douglas Copper company says WM that tho diamond drill going down from MM the surface at the Casting Copper ground Qn has encountered twenty-one feet that car- 'Mm ries 5.7 per cent copper. MM Sinking is being handled at a very live- WK ly clip at the Eagle &. Bluo Bell mine, at Mm Eureka, and Superintendent Owens iu of III the opinion that the shaft will be at the 'IB !af0 level by Chrlstmus eve. At pros- 'MM ent a large quantity of fine ore Is be- Wl Ing mined from the H25 level and th 1 133S level, both of which are reached M from the 1350 winze, and the Eagle & WJ Blue Bell !s moro than meeting the dlvl- KM dend requirement. imW