Show storm cuts down output of ore HE heavy snow storm early in THE the week crippled the knight railroad and resulted in lighter shipments from most of the knight mines the iron blossom being the heaviest shipper in the bunch suffer ed the greatest inconvenience when the train crew found it impossible to get through the snow drifts on thursday the ore was being moved as usual and no further trouble is anticipated from this source I 1 lor or some time supt bupt zabriskie has been beeping keeping the iron blossom out put up to about 15 tons a day the bulk of this tonnage bringing the company from aa 2 to 30 per ton the earnings of the mine for the donth of february will fall belo belom the record for the first month of the jear but there is a good reason for this as the shipment of ore was not exactly continuous throughout the month a number of minor trou brou bles interfering with the work in the ne neighborhood ii gl abor hood of the 1 vel ome ollie n nika w shaft timbers were install ed thial is being necessary owing to the fact that there is some loose ground in rhe he vicinity v cin ty of the shaft on th tha 1900 level the he south drift has now bowl deac reached h ed a point about f feet t f from th the shaft ani the vein will ill be encountered within th the e la next ext month 0 nth the h e in 0 of march should be a record bre breaker ker at the iron blossom not so in much eh 1 the matter of ore production a aay 4 the management is anak making ing no effort e f ort to crowd the ton nage but anh reference to the de of new territory the new equipment at the no 1 workings is making an extensive campaign of de possible |