Show MINES T AND MiNING EDITED BY F. F W. W SPRAGUE BIO PRODUCER BEING I i DEVELOPED AT LODI lOUI Recent Disclosures Confirm Wisdom of Building New Smelter SHAFT IN HIGH-GRADE HIGH OREt ORE t Shipping Rock While Smelting Plant Is Behig Constructed 7 I Ir r san Salt Jake owners oC of mining propS prop ortle In the lo Lodl I l. l Nevada te district little i nr are experiencing not a tit Uon from the thc fact that thu tho Lodl Lolli Mines company IB It rapidly developing the old Illinois mine Into one 01 of ot the big producers producers pro pro- of or Nevada This IB Is company com com- emd- emd tons Is III building a n pany that product Of or re recent recent recent re- re Its itH own t ter r to treat cent developments nt a u corre correspond 84 says that the man maIn shaft In la the ho property at th thy thu 00 Continues In high grade oro ore toot root Je el the bl break ak of or tho the ledge run run- 1400 OO a l ton Tho rho u aJar from 00 to lo U is confident that this or orwill ore will wUl give an aver Avera go shipping ut of O to the tOil toli tho smelter Is In c cOrae or of I shipments will be regular made bY way of oe Luning It Is con can expected b by the that tha froth JO to worth of or oro I fi rr tile the smelter IS to blown In Th The road rood to toLu Lu practically cully ha Iiii hUll been beon completed JoP j big traction engines li h. h been sun sunk stunk I at Intervals of ot l Ut to eight inches apart on this 7 OI Tile The work already done dono by the traction trac true lion tion engine hut hug dO demonstrated the tho feasibility of or this sort of or tl j 4 A second engine will noon Moon ho bo hof f purchased d. d and It Is the Intention ot of pf the management to Install a Do third Inthe inthe In Inthe the pear neat future futuro I ur miles mlle of or pipe pine aro alo on tho the road rond I no lIOL and will supply th the nelter and with water weter Ground Is now broken for tor this mlle mile ditch pipe will be all In pineo horl- horl ly after Its Hs arrival Tilo Tho company now nul ha 40 10 O mon at nt jf and anti next week will win put pul on Olt 40 10 I 01 Ore Mio hon l J I ew eN The Tue Incentive e behind all this en enterprise on- on n- n i Is h the wonderful oro ore showing Jn lit tho mine It 11 appear appears that the tho shaft has c come me Into tho the main oro body hl h on upper levels le has been becu reaCh reaCh- od d d through constantly shortening crosscut For the past jait 20 0 0 feet the shaft lwft has half In shipping Ore re Upon the thc foot fool level ol tho crosscut cross- cross out cut from tho the shaft haft struck a rich shoot In tho 1110 vein oln two shIrts shifts are arc breaking down high grade The outlook out- out Jook look IB is that tho high hl-h grade ore holst hoisted d viII more than the transportation tion facilities pending tho completion of or the fI smeller I Sloping will soon bo be commenced on the Iho six nn and 1 seventh levels Ic There are aro three veins in the thc Lodl LotH mines which are arc parallel fractures to tho limestone On tho the cast east lies the porphyry h r and on thee tho west west- tho granite g the tho uplift being responsible tar for th the fractures in Iii the tho limo in which the tho I ores ore arc deposited Tho The veins velna dip cUp I slightly toward tho the Slant granlIe land and the VV b work lono recently lC Cats Cats' J three thre Ven veina will coma come together to at Ot depth and autI make Into one large ore bod body Aside from Cram the ore nl already developed de de- 1 underground there thero Is a sec Bee class end dump containing 1 1500 1501 GOO tons of ot un o. of 50 ao a n ton and a aslag stag slag dump or ot tons worth 25 a atOll aton ton tOll which will ahw conic como in lit handy as asa asu UI UIa I a u flux All the tho necessary ly materials for Smelting aro are on oi the tho ground ox excepting colic h will cost 30 JO a ton at the tile theIn In ml mine I n no o. o The estimated cost of ot smelting the thc theore theore ore 0 Is U n 10 u it ton toil The Tue mine Is a agold gold sliver hd proposition anti and is Js one oIe J c of or the tile greatest In tho the state There Thoro arc aro a n. number of or mines and prospects Ii In tho Ie vicinity Which will bo be greatly benefited b by the installation I of tho the smelter mell r. r |