| Show mining news the ele bine bell were aid off yesterday bupt supt turner of the yankee mine was in salt lake last sunday on the employees of tb gemini mine received their monthly checks last tuesday harry josephs was out from salt lake to look after his antio interests bupt supt jackion of the ge mint mine was la salt lake several days this week on mining business J E superintendent of the lower mammoth mine and H R wilder wre in salt lake last saturday and sunday on mining business busi nees shareholder of the la eteine and bullion beck tunnel u of gintic tintic will meet on june 10 to discuss oon solida tion alone the lines already defined wilman cartt hag uc ceded andrew matsek ai torman of the uncle sam lame the engineer eagin eer on the n shift at the beck mine bis been laid off and the men working on that shift have to climb th ladders in off shift the night ehilt is small and work is beina done below the foot level on ahr shift the eureka kill thirty stamps are now dropping at the erek bill mill and the plaat is running much more than it was last week beat Pilger rim that th thirty stamps are capable of handling tally eighty tons of ore r twenty tour hours at th present time large percentage of this ore is being taken bom the mine and tb balance ie dump ore which hai accumulated during the time that the mill was many of the fillmen who were formerly employed at this plant are again the pay roll warren mingus J H stipes and geo moore are the engineers while joaeph bales and brems are george hales aad levan bacon have charge of the pans and win thomas charlie fox and oscar dahl hare the three different shifts n tanners frank barrett dan neff and thomas branks are looking after the stamps and thomas aileon is hoisting the 0 and looking after the walh is only operated on sniff prank newton another old time mill man is in charge of the battery floors and F E higson has taken a position as assayer it certainly looks bood to see the old plant active acain and the only regret is that there is not enough low grade ore blocked aut in the mine to keep the stamps dropping production of silver the anaconda mining company of montana s the largest producer of silver in the world this company having an annual of 5 ounces the broken hill proprietary mining company of australia is second in point of silver production it having an output of silver tor 1903 of 5 ounces next comes an american mine viz the daly west of utah with a re ported production of 4 ounces of silver tor 1903 the mines of the couer dalene come next in importance in eil ver production though they are ully net in a class with any of the above properties tb couer d alene s total pro of a dozen mines footing up for 1903 ounces ex gintic tintic ore shipments the ore shipments from tintie for the past week are a follows name of mine carload centennial emeka 58 uncle sam yankee 5 bansa 6 grand central 20 ajax 4 mammoth 11 lower mammoth 3 gemini 17 bullion 1 victor 2 total concentrates care uncle sam mill 3 daod to st louis sheriff D bromn thie week mailed a sheriff 8 deed to herman bermacher Be for the ground embraced in the st louie eu ecca mining company mr bersa aher purchased pur chesed the ground months ago when it was old under the hammer at the may day the may day mine is reported as enow ing up exceptionally well under the direction of superintendent hal F gear A nice ore body wag opened up late laet week in what is known as the yankee elope ahe ore has been opened up in four different places in the mine durina the past few months and from present indications the ore shipments will soon wipe out the company e indebtedness last month the company was somewhat glow paying its employees but no fur ther trouble from this source is anticipated the machine men have asked that heir jaee be railed from 2 75 to 3 00 per day and sapt gear has laid the mattea before the directors recommending that the request be granted on of the financial condition of the company the force at the mine hue been somewhat smaller than it be and this has made it impossible to do much prospecting |
