Show sioux force reduced early in the present week the force at the sioux cons mine was reduced to eleven men and all prospecting worl wort was discontinued for the pres ent at least the mine has been working a force of about twenty keeping about one half of the number at work on ore while the re bainder of the force was busy on de ve work woric the mine s present tonnage of ot ore does not ij the expenditure of much money foi new work and in order to keep the com pany from going into debt it was thought advisable to do away with the ne v work supt bupt W D loose states that there is still a very fair show ingot ofela ot of the old of the mine enough ore can no doubt be shipped to meet the monthly expense account but unless there is a change at th s mine in the near future either a shut down or as ses of the stock for further pros ee acting of the ground u will ill necessarily e in order sioux shares have been selling at or near the 5 cent mai oc for several days the lowe it point that has been reach ed since the company was successful success jul in opening the ore in th phoebe 8 S claim a number of 3 eai eais s ago |