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Show THE AMAZON AS A PROSPECT What is Being Done and How and Who. Tunnel is in Four Hundred Hun-dred Fifty Feet. The writer was one of a party that visited the Ama.on mine last Saturday Satur-day and spent an hour or more looking look-ing over the company's property, but Is not prepared to say Just yet as to when the great strike will bo made. Manager Hansen says that he doesn't anticipate anything extraordinary for .some time to come, but is confident that he is working along the right line and will eventually strike it. The Plant. The company Is doing some good development work there at present, and seems to be well prepared for rapid and effectual onslaughts against nature. A lifty-horsc power boiler furnishes power for an automatic air compressor which runs one iargc drill at present, can run two of tho same sic or three smaller. Tho company has, a splendid water system, with a pressure that Logan should have. Tim water is plped.a distance of 8,000 feet, and up the mountain side Is a reserve tank, so that if anything should happen to tho pipe the necessary neces-sary water Is on hand. N. M. Hansen .Ir , who has worked with the prospect since It was Hist opened and has taken a Harvard course in mining engineering recently, Is In charge and everything around the diggings shows a careful, methodical man at the helm. Everything is mink rind trinri plrvni ;mtl Innkc tt .l.w. . ,....., w. -...., ...... .w.. w business The Bill Tunnel. On Saturday tho tunnel which Is being worked at picscnt was in about 4,',0 feet. It Is the intention to drive this about fifty feet further to the. Intersection In-tersection of two veins that arc known to be in existence. The power drill In use Is operated by George Cunningham Cunning-ham and Paul Spenst, and about live feet Is mado each day. At the pie-sent pie-sent time the formation Is getting a little easier to work and the men tlieie take this as a good sign This tunnel Is being dug along a wall and it is expected that this will In a very short time lead to the Intersection of the veins mentioned. In this tunnel an occasional chunk of galena and copper ore is found but In no quantity. However, this Is not expected A Big Fissure. While digging In a drift to the right of the big tunnel, Friday, a blast disclosed dis-closed a great open fissure. This appears ap-pears to do somewhat larger than Hie body of a man and of a depth unknown. un-known. A rock thrown into this can be heard bounding down to an enormous enor-mous depth and finally dies away without giving any Ideq, of tho distance dis-tance Tho workers at 'the mine arc pleased with this lltul, asMt shows that the country Is sulllclently broken to permit of ore deposits. It Is prob-ablo prob-ablo that this tissure will be explored. This right drift will be dug out a depth of thirty or foity feet. O. YV. ilanscn is getting out the rock displaced dis-placed by the drillers. Hansen's Method. Manager II. C. Hansen has'ln mind the extension of the long tunnel to that point whcictho two veins Intersect. Inter-sect. He expects to lind some oie theie and then proposes to sink a shaft, as well as go after tho oie above, which is known to bo thero from the fact that It has been tapped and worked fiom the top. Fiom this point he well iuii shoit tunnels In vailous directions. This will tako no little work yet and certainly It will be some time jet before a strike Is made. Mr. Hansen Is perfectly satisfied with tho show lug thus far, Is getting along as nicely as he expects, Is working to a definite plan and believes ho will strike it when this plan is carried out. Tho company owns 'JOO acres around the claim of which tho present workings work-ings Is the center, 'and at various places theie aie rich cropplngs. Some Conveniences. The bojs around the mine have things fixed up very nicely for their comfort. Mr. Spenst, ono of the miners, is a man led man, and with his wife runs a hotel In close proxmlu-Ity proxmlu-Ity where ho boards the otheis and any tourists vvhohappen along. Thero is a good building there. Some of tho bojs have tents, and in a bunch of pines, "co" corners" have been built and other contrivances for comfort com-fort so arranged that the woik up thero ) more In the nature of an outing out-ing than otherwise. From Wednesday Wednes-day until Sunday, Joe Hansen was at the mlno relieving N. M. Hansen who, with Chas. Hansen and Guy C-udon, camo down out of the can) on. |
