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Show GOO TONS OF ORE To he Furnished the Pueblo .Smelters.' A Contract that is Making; the Eureka Mine "Get Up and Dust." Euiieka, MarclJ 30, 1891 special correspondence ofT tie Dispatch. Old King Winter ;seems loth to relinquish relin-quish his grasp on the scepter of the weather. Showers or snow and hail keep following each other in rapid succession, suc-cession, and the air is bitter cold. The break down at the Eureka mine Monday night is partially fixed. They are running with one cage. Their contract con-tract to furnish the Philadelphia Smelting and Refining Co., of Pueblo, 5,000 tons of ore in the next sixty days, is pushing them! Chief Engineer Gardner Gard-ner was explainin g to the writer the cause of the smash-up. It took a most tremendous blow to split such a solid heavy casting as the clutch and to tear out the center ef the reel. The cage was within about fifty feet of the top when the accident occurred. The reel became entity detached from the engine and the cage would have dropped back to the bottom had not the engineer, James Morgan, caught her with the break and held her suspended sus-pended in the shaft. The new sampler at the Mammoth switch will soon be ready for operation. opera-tion. There will be a good deal of development devel-opment work done as soon as the snow is gone. Will Morris and two others went to West 'Tin lie to do soma assessment work on their claims there. While the snow lasts it saves them hauling water. wa-ter. The saloon keepers are duly observing ob-serving the Sabbath day, keeping their front doors shut. What a lovely morning! Smoke from the chimnies rises straight up into the air; the sun spreads his warming beams from the east toward the west with a soft, and mallow radiance not a cloud is to be seen; the little birds are frisking about lively and talking to each other in loud, hurried, high-toned chirrups; the hens are scratching at the east side of the barn, and the cows are shaking their heads and w inking their eyes in a knowing kind of a way. On the streets t here is lumj-' . , pJc-lllV. ' - Ilavmt :. nothing else to do for the uist few days, the "boys" thought they would drink up what little whisky and beer there was in town, but the mine will stai . x l'ore they get the job accomplished. ac-complished. If they had a little more time, though, I think they would have made it. They seemed to be bent on having lots of fun, but.no fighting occurred. Justice Ilaynes has shut up his office for want of tfork in that line, and the law vers are languishing for want of bne"fs. The 'doctors have cured all the sick, except those who died and a few yet lingering, while the prospectors are crawling into their holes, the chickens are laying, and old Lill will soon have calf. "Meanwhile things generally are looking up. Our. ' : |