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Show STAGE IS ALL SET AT HORN SILVER FOR ORE SHIPMENT Five months of office planning, rough labor in the shafts, as well as the expenditure of about fifty thousand thous-and dollars in materials, lumber, machinery ma-chinery and payroll, has finally resulted re-sulted in the stage being completely set at the Horn Silver mine for regular reg-ular shipments of ore. Two carloads going out last Wednesday were expected ex-pected to be only the first of like grade and quality going out regularly. One carload was of silver-lead ore and was drought out from the lease worked by Lew Williams and partner. part-ner. The other come directly from the main shaft and was zinc ore, of the highest grade mined anywhere in the world. The mine is open for work down to eleven hundred feet, with the shaft extending much further. Superintendent Superinten-dent Kipps seemed highly elated when he came out of the mine late Tuesday Tues-day afternoon, and indicated that although al-though the way is now cleared for intensive in-tensive mining, more shafts and more leads will be continually drilled. "There is enough ore right in sight," Mr. Kipps said, "to expect shipments regularly of just such high grade zinc ore as this one." Twelve sets of leasors are working the mine now, said Mr. Clark, in charge of leasing. The leasors are practically all in sets of partners. The U. P. has a crew of men extending ex-tending track work and improving the present track, in evident anticipation antici-pation of steady business from the mine company. Good equipment was seen at the blacksmith shop, where a drill sharpener sharp-ener was pointing drills at the rate of one a minute, or doing work in three quarters of an hour that hand labor requires two days. A steam-heated steam-heated dressing room with shower baths is provided for the miners. The office has complete appointments of office equipment, and the assayer, Ray Petty, works in a model laboratory. labora-tory. The present population of Frisco is variously estimated to be from a hundred hun-dred to a hundred and twenty-five, including in-cluding the miners' families, which is quite a change from a year ago, when only three or four persons were i ever to be seen at the old town. 1 1 |
