Show eureka hill mine will be reopened 0 chief cons people preparing to main shaft and install electric hoist will reopen main 0 levels of mine no time is to be lost in an effort to rejuvenate the old cureka hill mine which a few weeks ago passed into the hands of the chief condoll dated people already plans have haye been made tor for the installation of ai ax electric hoist and the re timbering of the shaft which has not been use I 1 for more than a dozen years air tor for mining work to be taken up in tho th lureka hill ground will be secured from the chief scent ral plant local ed about a quarter of a mile from the shaft of abe first mentioned property this week a it force of men went to wor work k at tha the eureka hill and they are busy tearing down the old shaft house and doing other preliminary work one of the chiefs electric h hoists ests will at once be moved to the areka hill and this means that the installation of machinery can ba made without delay many years ago the hoisting plant at the lureka hill was dismantled and since that time the mine a main shaft has been out of commission what little mining work has been done by lessees in cureka hill ground has been handled from either the bullion beck or the centennial eureka mines at present some wore wort Is in progress from the centennial eureka side it Is understood that all 0 of f fr timbers in the eureka shaft to a depth ot of feet will have to be replaced and that a lot ot of shaft re pairs will be needed below that I 1 level the old shaft has a depth of 1500 feet but no extensive mining operations have been carried on be low the 1100 level in this mine la in fact the bulk of the ore mined in the earlier daye of the district when this property was moat most active came from front above the level following the re timbering of the eureka hill shaft the chief cone cono people will have a large amount of cleaning up before they can do much in the old workings of the mine but as soon boon as the property can be re opened and surveyed it will be op crated under the leasing system i worked out so successfully by the offet als of this company the eureka hill claims are in the very heart of that part of the district in which the first import ant strikes were made and the ground Is also in close proximity to the main workings of the chief corn com pany hence it should be a compare lively easy matter to compile the geological information necessary lor for ian an energetic campaign camp dign of develop meat ment work for the old time mine the upper levels which furnished the heavy production during the palmy day days of the eureka hill will I 1 of course receive first consideration but there are also reasons to be bileve that the lower levels will be quite thoroughly prospected under the direction of the chief chiefs a tion up to this time there has been no search for ore below the water 11 in the eureka hill neither bars there been any extensive operations below the water in the bullion beck or centennial eureka these mine mines being among the very oldest in ahn district and all having wonderful dividend records |