Show two miners make new record for shaft work e two cripple creek miners ben smith and harry gray have made a record for shaft 1 sinking which will no doubt stand fur for some time working without any assistance ssi chest two men sunk a shaft on the tile united tintic gintic property a depth of 17 feet in 28 days the shaft being 7 by 14 feet in the clear smith and gray not only drilled their holes and mucked out the shaft but framed and installed their own timbers and sharpen ed their steel also hoisting the material which was taken from the sa s1 1 aft the distance that the material hid to be hoisted be i ing in excess of feet the shaft is equipped with a small gasoline hoist of course it was all hand work no machine drills being available and the tile rock Is a hard lime containing iron sulphides sulp hides hae any two tintic gintic men ever eiver beaten this records is the qu question eslon asked by mr smith |