| Show tuesday was pay day at the benten nial eureka mine saturday was pay day at the eagle and plue bell mine alien was at the foreka mine yesterday on his regular trip of inspection bupt supt turner 0 the yankee cons was in salt lake the early part of the week on mining business the 1 assessment on the godiva of tintie has been paid up this giving the treasurer about on which to draw newton danyon came out from salt lake wednesday to make an examination of the lower mammoth mine fineis union now has a membership member hip of of whom over jiahe joined within the past s x montas stiffler was over from S iver city monday on business he elates that leasing ie the main work now bei g car tied on in that geltion of the district the gemini mine will be closed down tomorrow in order bat connections may be mad with the new borleis the shut down will be for the one day only the case of the bullion beck tannel company vs the mountain view mining company has been dismissed on the tion of the plaintiff P J donnelly superintendent ot the fraud central at mammoth went to salt lake last sunday to recuperate from an attack of rheumatism which has been giving him considerable trouble for some time about BIZ leasers are now aa work in the south swansea mine at silver and some nice or is being sent to the mar ket the mine can be worked down to the toot level but below that the water has filled the underground work ings the bingham cons smelting company purchased the farst lot ot ore from the mammoth mine to be sold on the open the lot about tons containing 5 pei cent copper 2 cancel silver and 7 40 in gold per ton another lot is also at the sampler dan neff returned return ej to eureka tuesday after a few days absence in bait lake and nephi mr neffe su t aad ast the south swansea mining comp ay has bee set tied out ot court upon the defendant company paying 1400 do mr neff for personal injuries sustained in the lejano Le jabo 4 year ago through a deal consummated in salt lake tuesday afternoon uncle cesae knight came into possess on of the la peine mine a control of the stock having passed to him from parry S joseph fhe total capital stock of the mine ie shares and mr knight has her come the owner of n ore than shares it is quite likely that the deal will mean a consolidation of the la reine with the salvator which la owned by mr knight and from wh ch he has been making numerous shipments of high grade our of late some repairs are now being made to the boilers at the raymond mine and as soon as this is completed the workings will be cleared t the water and then work will be resumed manager S hi van states that there ie but very little water in the shaft and that only a short time will elapse before development work it started again t w f ff two sinus of miners representative van daten of nevada sprains sp lains the difference between the east ern and western miars in the following language western and eastern miners belong to two entirely different classes the western miner wears a bine flannel shirt and the badge of his amican manhood is honesty and honor the eastern miner wears s silk hat a b g d amond and usually lives at the waldorf the western lies in the bosom of the earth the eastern mine is a figment of the image nation mills make western nunes and all that is needed to make an eastern mine is a printing press there are a lot 0 aleek well fed looking sports too dishonest to be genteel gamb lers who blow into new york and they circle about wall street they will rent anything in the way of an office as long as it is on wall street furnish it up fine hire a enapp mc looking clerk or two and hang ont siang to indicate they are asady to do business items of interest to miners from mining and scientific press it is unwise to sink a shaft in a duct even it the dump eventually surround Is the shaft and raise the collar above the immediate drainage dunlea a concrete dam be built around tl e shaft the drain aee of the gulch will to a great extent penetrate the dump and flood the shaft that there is any d fforence between fissure and true fissure is not clear A fault fissure ie asee tilly ti lly the earne as any other fissure except that n the case of a fault fissure there may have been ome movement 0 the walls relative to each other no part cular type of fissure vein 11 more indicative of value than any other kind some of most perfect fissure veme are without ore of value where a drain tunnel haa been driven under a shaft and the water still remains the shaft or shows only a small amount of drainage it is probable that the ere vices of the rucks have become filled with with fine clay or silt and th s material is rendering the seepage of water through it slow and difficult if the shaft be be aba ed out it may improve sat edit somewhat as the splashing ot the water about the shaft would have a tendency to a the silt and re sh the flow ot water through the rocks gintic tintic ore shipments the ore shipments 1 antie for the past week are a follows name of mine carloads centennial eureka 54 yankee 8 salvator uncle feam 1 let 3 gemini 22 bullion 5 central 14 lowel mammoth 10 mammoth 16 bansa 5 dragon iron mine south swansea 2 |
