Show south swansea affairs south swansea of silver city hae elos ed a contract with the united states smelter and will boon commence com menee shipping ore from the upper levels of the property the company has been trying for bome time close a contract with the amen can smelting company but has been un A few week ago a carload of ore was sent in to be sold upon the open macket and was purchased by the united states company the returns from this lot were entirely satisfactory and resulted in a contract being drawn up and signed ahe only work which has been done at this mine recently was in the lease the lower levels of the mine have filled with water since the shut down and the ore w 11 have to be taken from the appel workings the mine can be worked however down to the foot level and as there is plenty of ore above this point it will not be to start the p ampa working again the south swansea and its near neighbor the swansea are both connected on tl e lower levels and to open either be low the water line would mean the pum ping of the water from both properties a very expensive undertaking |