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Show PREPARE FOR BIG ' FLOW OF WATER Amalgamated Pioche Expects It When Raymond & Ely Fissure Is Gut. The crosscut on the fourteenth level of shaft No. 1 of tho Amalgamated Pioche to connect with thc Raymond & Ely fissure fis-sure in progressing satisfactorily, says th6 Pioche Record. Quartzlte continues to be tho rock encountered and through It an advanco of more than 100 feet has been made. Tho best work so far occurred oc-curred on the 2nd Inst., when eleven feet was gained In two lounds, each of which was drilled Hnd shot on an eight-hour shift. Thrco shifts are at work constantly. con-stantly. Stringers of slnc-lcad sulphides in a quartz ganguc were cut yesterday. These stringers vary from a mere crack to four Inches in width. This Indication is encouraging. en-couraging. A heavy door and bulkhead arc being Installed in tho crosscut In ordor to con- ! trol thc water which standB in the B. !. winze and its tributary workings, and i which will be encountered when the vein Is cut. Tho water stands 200 feet above the crosscut (which gives a. pressure pres-sure of ninety pounds to the square inch), and should this water bo out Into in such manner as to bring It Into tho crosscut cross-cut nl at once, the door of the bulkhead would have to withstand 150 tons prcs-Bur,e' prcs-Bur,e' 7",s' however, is not expected rather It Is anticipated that tho flow of water will come gradually. A loug drillhole drill-hole Is carried at the face of tho drift to give warning of the approach to thc water wa-ter country. A second pump was lowered this week into the fourteenth level station: thc two, It is hoped, will be able to dear the water wa-ter as it flows from the crosscut. Encouraged by the (lno weather. Icas-cro Icas-cro are again working on the slag dumps and near surface ore showings; as a result, re-sult, more ore is bolng shipped than during dur-ing the past three months. Gold .Chief Moving Mill. Culverwcll Brothers teams havc been busy this week hauling a lot of hoavy machinery from thc Half Moon mine to the Gold Chiof property In the Chief district. The Gold Chief company recently re-cently purchased the Half Moon mill building and contents which Included crushers and a concentrating table. The plant is to bo utilized at tho Gold Chief properly. A fire at tho Half Moon mine last Wednesday Wed-nesday destroyed tho bunkhouse and practically all of Its contents, Tho flro occurred while the men were at dlnnor. One of the cmployoes, In addition ad-dition to losing his clothes, lost a small bank roll. Superintendent James Quirk of the Prince Consolidated mine wan over on this side of the mountain on Tuesduy to samplo thc Zero vein. It Is likely that something will bo doing on the Zero shortly. |