Show zm pirl the le 3 beck tunnel and cafor CL do I 1 it certainly does one good to take a trip around the mountain from knights Nille to the colorado and beck tunnel thia this is about the busiest spot in the entire tintic gintic district to day and from the looks of things the n next ex t few months will witness even greater aati v ity on wednesday the reporter editor had the pleasure of accompanying apt john roundy of the beck beek tunnel and colorado mines over this section as well as through the underground workings of these two bonanzas to look at the beck beek tunnel hoisting plant a person would hardly believe it possible to handle enough ore in a little over a year to pay moie mote than one half million dollars in dividends but that is the mines record the little engine which by the u ay is one of the first ever brought into and the single compartment shaft willston will soon be replaced by a double compartment shaft and bigger and more modern machinery in fact the new shaft is now down a distance of about 20 feet the machine drills ar are e driving this shaft down pretty rapidly and there will be no unnecessary delays in putt ing it down to the ore the ore bodies in the beck beek tunnel are apparently getting bigger all the time and with tie new hoisting equipment it should prove an easy matter to increase the output which would mean more divi bend money for the fortunate share holders the colorado has a splendid shaft good machinery a large well uell built ore house houge and what is better than every thing else an ore body that for size and richness is unequalled in tintic gintic bupt roundy certainly broke all records when after a few months of de dev elopement v elop ment flork j ork he was ible able to place the colorado among the dm divi dd payers pd ers starting it off with 40 which there is every reason to believe will be increased in the near future perhaps next month As stat ed in our last issue the colorado is to have another shaft this new shaft will be about 24 feet inside the line dividing the colorado and beck tun n nol nl l grading out for this shaft is now in progress |