Show I MINE AND MINING ININ G EDITED TE BY y P. P W. W SPRAGUE p SOUTH COLUMBUS WILL START SHIPPING ORE Ready to Start Production From Foot 10 Body of Carbonates IN MEANTIME WILL SINK Rich Sulphides Expected to Appear Within Another 1 00 Feet Feet The South Columbus Consolidated Mining company compan will wi next week be begin begin bein be- be gin in taking out ore Ole for shipment from flom the ten foot body of or carbonate ore orE or opened ned some ome time ago ao 30 In the Alta Alta- Ala Ala- Quincy tunnel tunnel A hoIst hol t and Id skip have I b been en En installed near the face of or th the I tunnel a 1 will wi be bl sunk unk to the depth of feet feeL and on olt that level a adrift drift will wi be run An ore chu chute has ha been con constructed In the upraise connecting con con- the A Alta Uta tunnel and the lower tunnel and the ore will viii wi he be betaken heI I taken laken ken out nut through the lower r adit The feet In from front connection I is about bout th the portal of the upper tunnel tunnel While Itle there theta Is some somo high grade sn de orin ore or- oreIn r. r in the hod body lOdy of carbonates Manager Tony Ton n says tays that the ora a average c will will f not run high for it will wi he be shipped as ns It I is broken down from the entire bod body lie He expects however how how- ever PI entre that there will wi he ito a reasonably I the prod prod- ond profit from marketing and the Indications are arc that t twill ii 11 better as ns depth 1 f will 1 be ha hp getting beter holdoUt hold hole attained Should this a nut oUt in sinking Pinking feet where chere It i J u H now bole believed rich sulphides will vill wi h be h encountered tho the lower tunnel will wil b bj h- h continued to Intercept this ore bod body at several hundred feet feEt greater depth Tho The ore that I Is ia being taken takEn from b le lessees for shipment ship ship- Wedge ground ro nfl by sec ment e runs ruml 50 and 60 GO per cent Ie lead leac and ounces ouncEs In silver It I I Is taken nut out In drifting on the foot lovel from the thc shaft that was sunk unk last year far h by the company compan the tile shaft havIng having hayIng hav hay ing gone down don in good ore from the surface The South Columbus company com COIn eor- eor ran pany receive 35 31 per cent rual royalty on th the or ore shipped by the tho le lessees ce The drift that thal J Is being run for tl the Wedge ed p pore ore body by bv th the company from the South Columbus tunnel tunnEl hR has only bout about feet yet et to run before Jt jt it should cut cU the tile ore at about feet depth In the Columbus Columbu Consolidated work continues to bo be centered In driving the drift on th the level Ic below the tunnel tun tun- net nel J level pl to open th the boc body 1013 of oC rich sulphide ore encountered above Sev- Sev everal ev- ev ral eral good ore orP shoots have been run run through in following the tite vein ein but their exploration has been left for or a later time |