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Show ' TBIOPI HIS IS . WORKING 1SHS Because of the prrvn lence of the iullu-on iullu-on za, during the past week or so m Tonopah. I lie Tonopa.li .Mining compiiiiy, plong with th-. other opcia.ting mines in the district, has been handicapped to a greater extent possibly than was caused by the government': call for miners and I laborers for shipyard and other war work. ; Jn consequence of I his slt.u:;t ion, the company fell far short of it average in the matter of de ."elopinent work, there having been only thirty-four feet of new ground broken in what are known as the. regular mining operations. The sloping work, however, was continued at the usual rate at each or the veins on the different differ-ent levels cf the several sections of the mine, and the output from tiio underground under-ground workings was about op to normal. The dumps have been cleaned up and there will be no reports in the future concerning tonnages troia this source. In the neanwhile, howeveV, the miil management man-agement is engaged in a series of experiments experi-ments to determine whether the immense vih-s of sands which remained from the previous operations, before the com pa nv adopted the all -sliming prncess at the mill, are susceptible to economical handling han-dling and "treatment. These e. p jii men t s will be continued fcr at least a. mouth and possibly longer, and there is every' reason to hope that within that period the mill experts of the eomp-'- uy w Ttl have deviled some practical method to extract the remaining values from the old sands and what remain., in the slimes. Tone-pah Tone-pah Miner. |