Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-04-08 | Page 8 | Giroux Drifting from New Shaft at Four Depths

i I Ii GIROUX CIROU DRifTING fROM N NEW SHAFT AT FOUR OU DEPTHS Drifting from four depths Is in progress pro pro- gross gress gess in the Giroux property at present and a S larger num number r of men are arc employed employed employed em em- under ground than for some om time Drifts and ant crosscuts to t prospect the formations formations for for- matons are being driven at 10 1000 1200 and 1400 feet where whore tho the bl big air drills dris are aro Iro operated operated three shifts every day says S 'S Ely Expositor The Tho most Important of ot those these probably I Is tho the 1200 crosscut which Is to open th the tho Alpha Alpha ore bodies 8 and which has been driven moro than feet In that direction dime dime- dirc- dirc ton ion tion or about two thirds of tho the distance to the Alpha shaft Progress has hI been ben delayed at nl times on account of the flow fow of ot water and when it Increased tho the work ork was suspended for fear ter that the main water course cOUr of tho the Alpha was wa being tapped The water has n w lowered so far In tho the Alpha that ther there Is less legs danger danger dan dan- dan I ger of getting tho Urn pumps drowned out As tho the Alpha Upha ore body lies les between that I and the Giroux shafts It Is expected the I crosscut cut will wi reach it very soon Roon fon On tho the 1400 level los the tho breast has ha advanced about seventy o fi feet from tram the shaft It I Is also als being driven toward the tho Alpha to prospect for tor tho the ore deposits de do- posits deeper deper than they have ever over been opened before and Sand where they are ex expected expected ox- ox peeled to be very ver rich in copper The drifts above the ones mentioned are prospecting along the contacts both cast and west of ot the tho shaft and In dry ground Tho The new hoisting plant may not go Into commission for some timos as a some of tho the idler towers remain to be bo constructed constructed constructed con con- and there Is no pressing need I of the larger hoists until tho the ore is isI I found and development of tho the deposits commences Then it wll wil wl be bo necessary ary to hoist holst tho the ore as well wen as ns waste and probAbly probably ably bly the ore will wi b bp be dumped In the tho bins built hult In the tho head frame framo and loaded di directly dl- dl on railroad cars can when the bins which will wf hold about four tour carloads aro are filled fled A pump haA be been n ordered for the tho 1400 station staton that will wi arrive arho In a short shor time and bo be Immediately put In place It I will wl have havo o ha to lift lt the tho water to the 1200 station station station sta sta- tion only but will wi have a large capacity as a bl big flow fow Is expected d on that level le when tho the Alpha ore hod body is reached rached