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Show GIROUX CM HAKES DETOUR AROUND THE OLD AlPHi SHAFT At tha Olroux Consolidate tha development devel-opment work has reached a most Interesting; Inter-esting; stags. Tha drift that was ssnt out from - tha new Olroux shaft has readied tha old Alpha workings, at a depth of 1200 feat. This la tha bottom of ths old shaft and. Instead of connect-1 connect-1 ing up with tha Alpha shaft, a detour Is i being mads to tha north side and. connection con-nection with tha drift on ths op posits sids will be mads later on. It was thought advisable not to connect up with tha old workings, owing to tha cava condition condi-tion of the Alpha country. It Is running; ground and would endanger the lives of the men, while recent soundings havs shown that there was twentyVlve feet of water In tha Alpha shaft. Of ths new development of recent data, which has proven up a considerable amount of high grade copper ore. ths Ely Expositor says: "Ths ore that has bean found In the last week la apparently a different body than that which was opened by ths old company from tha Alpha, though perhaps per-haps It will be found to be connected when it can be explored.. Tba new ore Is on the southwest sids of ths Alpha, while all tha development work dona by tha old company from tha bottom of tha Alpha shaft was to ths north. "After passing through a large vain of high grade copper ore ths 1 206 struck lime again, but It proved to be only a 'horse, and a couple of shifts work fot through It and found tha ore again, t appears to be sn el tared lime, some of which has been worked up into sllcken sides by the movement of tha earth. The or shows red oxide and much native cooper, and high assays have besn obtained ob-tained from ths regular samples taken dally. "Tha ledge. If such It may be called. Is brecciated and heavy lagging, especially overhead. Is necessary, and six -Inch sawed timbers and railroad ties have beea used for tha purposs. Tha timbering tim-bering Is kept close to tha face and all the space hack of the top and elds lagging lag-ging la filled with wedgea, that are driven as tight as possible. , "Because the old shaft haa been causing caus-ing a lot of trouble recently, the electric came was pulled out of It and the six-Inch six-Inch water column will also be taleen out. Thla will relieve the shaft timbers of a great deal of weight and. It le hoped, will protons: the life of the shaft, now valuable principally for ventilation. The water column nas pulled apart In three Pisces. It le aald, and the weight of all the eectlone Is on the shaft timbering. The water column In the new shaft rents en a apectal eteel T beam set In concrete, con-crete, and there Is no weight on the tlmbere. "A short time ago the Alpha ahaft tlmbere pulled apart, near the place where the cave occurred several years ago, and a apace about foun feet high and extending bark forty feet from the shsft had to he filled with cord wood. "In the station at 1400 In the new shaft an soo-gallon pump Is easily handling all the water Which It lifts to the 1300. In sddltton to the station pump two larae sinking pumps are In place and connected con-nected up eo they can oa started up on a minute e notice ehould tha flow of water be In excees of what the station pump can take care of. There le just about the same amount of water being lifted to the surface, but recently th greater part of It has been coming In on the 1400, while the quantity on ths 1200 has d mlnlihed. "Should the occasion arise, 'both th 130 snd 140 drifts could be bulkhesded and allowed tn fill up with water. If by any chance the pumps get disabled and drowned out. the company has bailers at hand which could quickly be put Into service, and with there a, larger quantity quan-tity of water could be raised to the surface sur-face than th big pumps can hand) to th sam time. The bailers have a capacity ca-pacity of 2000 gallon, or eight ton, of water. The big hoists ar In running order, ready for th steel cables to be wound on them. Th hoist that will be used to handle th skip wtll hav two J 000-foot ropas, on fastened to each end of the drum, both of which will wind toward the other end. By this method It I poaslbl to hav th drum much shorter than otherwise. Another big hoist will be used to handle the cage In th 1x10 compartment. The cage ts a double decker and forty men can b ban-died ban-died on a trip." ,. , , |