Show the swansea cons the big electric pump which w as recently installed near the station static n on the level of the swansea cons mine is 18 working without a hitch the electric sinking pump is not betin yet in successful operation and the old sinker of the swansea company has been placed in the shaft for tern tem horary use or until the other electric pump is ready for business the sinking pump lifts the water and de posits it into two large tanks upon the level and the stationary pump lifts it to the surface already the water in the swansea has been lower ed about 60 feet and when the new electric sinking pump is in operation but a very few weeks w m ill be required to the mine the swansea workings are down to a depth of feet and when ahen the pumps start ed up a few v beeks ago the water filled the mine up within 20 feet of the station on the level the big electric pump which is now running on the level of the swan sea is certainly a wonderful piece of machinery itis it is operated by a h p motor and la is large enough to handle a great deal more water than is now flowing into the workings of this mine the sinking pump fills the two tanks in an hour and a quarter and the stationery pomp pump having a much larger capacity lifts the same amount of water to the surface in n about fifteen minutes supt bupt william matthews of the swansea is now running three drifts upon the level one of these drift ia Is headed toward the north the other is going into new country to the south of the shaft and the third ia Is being run toward the west all the work that has been done in the swansea mine in years past or a big percentage of it has been along the line of the ore north and south and mr mathews is anxious to push out into new tern terri tory to the west of the shaft the drift which is now being run in this direction is cutting into some mineral iced rock and it would not be at all su if some ore is developed in this virgin ground the ore above the n water ater level in the swansea has been pretty well gouged out by leasers within the past few years but notwithstanding this supt bupt mathews now has a few men at work on good ore these deposits while not sensational may lead to something much better within a very short time of course the company is anxious to drain the mine and reopen the lower denels where considerable ore was mas ex posed at the time work was suspended several years ago the swansea properties have pro deuced some marvelously rich ore in years passed one big reaching from the level to the surface and now that they have been consolidate consoli dat ed and are being developed sisterna ss terna there is ever reason to believe that the swansea cons will become one of the biggest mines in gintic tintic |