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Show PRINCE CONSOLIDATED PRODUCES REGULARLY The old reliable ore factory known as the Prince mine continues to produce carload after carload of the black ore each 'day, until the work of the property prop-erty seems more like a huge manufacturing manufac-turing plant than like a mine, according to the Pioche Record. The regularity of tho operation makes it quite difficult to give news regarding this mainstay ot the district. No accidents seem to happen hap-pen and nothing breaks the continuity of the production. While there are no plans matured as yet, still it is well known that the Prince company will some day open up the beds developed 'below the water level. The beds were discovered some years ago in the progress of diamond drilling, the upper up-per bed being of oxidized material about ten feet in thickness, from which It was estimated that a profit of $15 per ton could be secured. The lower bed, a little thicker, was found to contain an exceptionally excep-tionally good grade of zinc ore, free from Iron pyrites, lime or other impurities, and from this zinc ore a profit of $20 per ton is expected. The big working shaft of the Prince mine was located with a view of continuing contin-uing it some day to the level of the 'offer beds. The shaft is P-vo-compart-ment, the "working compartment being four and a half feet by five feet, through which runs a self-dumping two-ton skip, while the other compartment is live and a half feet by five and is used for a nlan-way nlan-way and for air and water pipes. The equipment is new and well adapted to the work in hand. It will be good news when the efficient management of this heavy producer releases re-leases the good word that sinking will be stanted and the underlying ore beds opened up for increased production. |