Show gintic tintic mining news THE 51 yesterday afternoon a reporter depre tentative was piloted through the under workings 0 the uncle sam anne ae well ae that portion 0 the old ham bag ground which la owned by the uncle sam aming company by superintendent giggs under direction the property has made eboh a wonderful allowing the company hae been very reticent regarding the work done m the two years and the general public hae bat little knowledge of the condition of the mine which is better at this time than at ny since the company wae formed the revenue aiom the gale of the high grade ore the money which the mill ie adding to the treasury and the royalty on ore taken out by leasers amounts to much more than the dividend which the shareholder are re ceiling each month in fact the concen rating plant alouris earning this amount there ie absolutely no question but what the dividends can be continued regularly tor an indefinite period on the ore now hi light on the various levels of the mine and upon the dumps several of an important nature have been made in the anele sam of late of chieh nothing whatever hae been given out mr engg s plan hag been to decote considerable at to development work and no effort has been made to tax the of high grade ore from the mine A strike which promises to be the most important in years was made below the inter medi ate or foot level in northern territory this section ef the mine has beai proa pecked considerable during the past bev 5 ears and one of the duffa driven by a former came within a few feet ot the ore which recently rewarded the search of superintendent gagga and carter the ore chute is be ing followed into victrin vir trin territory and its possibilities are the greater tor this rea eon the rock ig lead carbonate which carries splendid value in silver and gold on the foot level drifting toward the southeast is in progress with the hopes e opening up the ore bodies eh are known to exist in neighboring mines last few shots in the face of this drift an entirely different chai aeter ot than through which the drift haa been run and while no ore has been encountered the indications are very favorable considerable development work Is also being done on the level one third of the ore beci u to run the mill is now being taken from the upper levels of the mine which contain an un limited quantity of oi LEASERS AT HUMBUG iii that portion ot the old humbug around wh ch is owned by tl bain mm ng company thare are four bete and all at doing splendidly at a of these is mr tay who haatanen haa taken out over twenty carloads carlo adi of rich ore from what ig known the upper flock age and judging from the amnuel of ore now exposed he will be able to nearly double this aenoi nt before be exp ration of hia lease two of these cars netted mr tay over 2000 each and lut few of tl ot ee have fallen below 1000 the ground embraced in this lease is 11 e same that produced such sen rational eat ional ore deposit when the humbug was owned by jesse en when the lease was let to mr fay the company cons dered the ground pretty well worked out and now ore of a asplen I 1 d shipping is exposed in almost a score of u efferent places between the upper tunnel level and the I bat month this lease produced two carloads of ore and this w II 11 be duplicated for the present month jensen christopher son who put in about a doing leed work opened up nice body of ore n couple of weeks ago and in that t me 1 dve taken out over furty tons which will be placed upon the market at an early date this ore carries values in lead bil and gold and will compare favorably with that opened up in mr tay s lea e in the upper workings mr gillis another leaser ie also at on a nice body ot or m this locality jake 13 also taking out a rood grade of ore from bis lease the royalty which the company gets on the grade of ore which these leasers are taking out at the present time is 50 per deot and super n giggs at reeni e from this source alone is no meana email SHIP DUMP bupt supt aly measured mea suied up the old dump at the humbug and a two car load lot is now being loaded for shipment to the emelder some time ago the corn dec ded to run this dump gh the mill but after sampling it was great li Burp Used to find that the ore could be eh aped at a nice there are fully tons of this ere in the dump which will net the company about 8 per ton A wagon road will be built to the foot ot of the dump and when th s is complete 1 the ore can be placed upon the cars for 60 cents per ton A two carload ship ment from which the coarser ore has been screened is now be ng loaded and will go out ia a few days an average assay of this 1st showed ounces in silver 2 60 in gold and 6 per cent lead another dump of milling ore at the hum bug contains in the neighborhood of 20 tons and this will eventually be run through the company a mill although at the present anne there in an abundance of ore nearer at hand suitable for concen eoe mckellar are now load ing the fifth carload of ore from their lease in the beck mine three eh ats are now at work and two more carloads will ie bent out thi month john in from his mining ground near breely springs last wedlee day he reports the property showing up well under the present development which is the annual assessment ases work and it possible sible work will be cont aued until cold weather sets in the 0 the mckinley minin company held a meeting last monday night at wh eh time waa de aided t put a small force to work at an early ante the company is entirely free from debt and an assessment will be levied t carry on the work thorn as weir was out from salt I 1 ake last saturday to inspect h tintie inter ests the usual work ie being done at the a said mr weir but no import ant changes have taken place during the past few weeks the laclede silver city n maing closed and mr weir does not know when tae property will be re opened u A el ort time ago fifty men off atthe centennial eureka minea e baue of an overproduction of ore at the company 8 smelter and then again last saturday fully one bundled were drafted for the same reason which leaves but half a hundred men now upon the mine pay rol the lay off is only temporary however and the usual force will no doubt employed inside the next week or ten days ahe united stacee mm n company has I 1 een buying great deal of ore of late a d act ordina to the state ment of mat ager alien to the this ore mes comes into the amel er in quant t s too large to be handled by the ament of the pant then on top of tb s comes the output of the mine amounting to 40 carloads a day and wi enever the hallowed sall owed to re ma n in the ears more thai doity eight hours after it reaches the smelter the U b company ie forced to pay heavy dem arrage in order to avoid this the company decided to cut off the tonnage the u a this place tor a few days |