Show LAS VEGAS PROPERTY IS FINE PRODUCER Old Olp Potosi Mine Said to Be Shipping 1000 Tons a Month The old oil Potosi Poto 1 mine I Is shipping 1000 10 tens lemma JS of rich Ieh lead load and zinc per month carr carrying car car- r ln about aboul t a ton In lead and amid 23 2 In zinc says the tIme Las Ye Vegas aM Gazette This property has b been en worked for tort forty years e l and I In hi owned b by jy W V. H. H I. I Coffin Corin and J. J M. M I McDonald of Duluth MIne Minn Two 0 long tunnels tunnel tap the gre great t ore hod bol body the time north 2 feet ret deep and the south drift 60 t feet reel deep heel Rich ore oce Is 18 found on Ion ever every cry side The rite mine Is cleva elevated l c 64 I feet ret above e bo the tea Jea ea an and th the ore Is I carried feet down the mountain lj by aerial tramway th thence fc S to the de desert rt plain by bv I road roat which does doe not exceed 11 1 per cent I grade a at t any point t. t A prominent nt busie business s man mun of or Los Ls Vc- Vc JUS gus gas who J Is familiar with the time operations of lh the tue Potosi Poto 1 company s ays says tl of or ore oro average elage 1000 tons lon per month Of pt this thin monthly production a boul seventy tons are galena valued at J 0 33 3 a alon aton ton lon anti and time the balance is zinc Ine returning 22 2 to te pi nj A a ton Ore production is limited only by ly restricted means of ot hauling It Competent jul Judges es sufficient ore IM I'm sight to Supply O tOI tons a u ta day for years to com conic U it I Is tile the lie intention of or the time company compall to Increase the production of tIme Iho mine b by byI I Installing electric electric hoists a concentrator tor air ah compressor sor and other machinery machiner and fa facilitate ta- ta a- a the tIme handling of or ore to luch an ami extent a as s tn to enable the time management t to l. l ship shut twenty tons of or ore a 1 day from AIden Ar- Ar den Ore Oro shipped during durinA I lie brought returns re reo turns turn from rota the tho smelters amounting to W JQ 00 The he output will wi be lie hastily In itt d enc this year ear The zinc goes goos to lola Kan Knit and 1111 the l lead ad Is 11 smelted smelLed at Salida Salta Colorado |