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Show GOVERNMENT MEN VISIT MINA MINES Special to The Tribune. MINA. Nev.. Sept. 12. O. E. Van 'Karneelde, director of the United States bureau of mines' experiment station at Tucson. Ari.. is pa inir a brief visit to the Simon district. 1J. A. Simon of the Siuiuu Kilvcr-1. cad. 1',. S. C'liatey of tho .s'nnon-l'asaii. II. B. Uml of the Iroquois i 'upper company and other mining men, of the district " have been showing him j their piO ertics: Air. Van liarneveldo says that he finds, it a. most inUTcsliiiL,' mining country, and declares his intention of making another islt within a short lime. The working shaft at the Simon Silver-Lend Silver-Lend mine has been enlarged and re-timbered, re-timbered, ami it is now a two-eompart-nirnl shaft clear to the sump. The new surface equipment is all set' up in place ; anil ready tu turn over. There is a 100-hnrsepower 100-hnrsepower Uairbanks-Morsc gasoline engine en-gine for drl ing the electrical generator, v liicli prodm-es energy for the pumps, lights aial various small motors throughout through-out the plant. Tuere Is also the 120-i'orsepuw 120-i'orsepuw or Western gasoline engine, dire. di-re. -I coupled tu t lie 700-cubic feet capacity ca-pacity aii- compressor. These 'two prime uiuvers are so arranged that, in the event of an accident to either one of them, the entire load can be transferred to the j other at a moment's notice. , In addition to these, the new 60-horse- I power heist is all sel up and readv for i the cable to be wound upon the drum. The engines, comnressur. etc.. are boused i iu a new building, heavily framed, and w;th a truss roof of timber sufficiently! heavy tu permit of the hoisting from its : bed of any piece of machinery by use of j proper tackle. A new and substantial head frame hag been constructed with ore bins, a new biacksmithsh.op and machine shop, and a erv comfortable change house, equipped with shower, baths, lockers 'and many other conveniences. storage, lank has been placed at a point near the road from which gasoline gaso-line will be punmed to a smaller tank on the hillside above the engine room, i and fed by gravity to the engines. , |