Show smaller tonnage but better ore I 1 while the output from the sioux mine la is not quite as heavy as it has bt b t n during the past year at out eight carloads now being sent out each week there has been a marked in pro in the grada of ore which dinow i now being placed upon the market and the smaller tonnage is bringing I 1 the company almost as much money as ag was received from the heavier out pat some time ago then the work ing force is smaller at tl ti is time and the operating expenses are conse lower the mine is now working about 45 men in the nun min ing of the ore at the sioux cons mine supt bupt W D loose adopted the system of keeping the workings en cleaned up as the work pro grossed gressed and lea leaving ing much of the ore blocked out and as a result the mine yet contains some of the richest ore found in the famous colorado sioux ore body the bulk of the ore aich is now finding its way to the market is coming from the lev level ea but as mr loose says ore is ben g taken from almost all parts of the mine the work of drifting over it to the old territory of the sioux is still boing on and this drift is now in a distance of about 1500 feet from the shaft sixty or seventy feet more will take th a drift directly below the old work ings of the sioux and then a raise will be started for the purpose of mak ing a connection and it is at this point that some ore should be opened |