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Show plans' for reinstalling the equipment. It may be that a complete line of ma-thlnery ma-thlnery will have to be installed, yet something may be saved out of the wreckage. It Is understood that the company was overdrawn to a small amount at the banks when this accident occurred, occur-red, but not to such an extent as to ncce..-diate the assessment afterward Imperative While shipments are being be-ing nude at present, the company for many months had no maiket at all, the closing of the Kuight smelter at Tinllc causing a cessation of ore ship ments tor a long time, Considerable development, work Is being prosecuted both In the Mammoth territory proper prop-er and in the Don Pedro claim, 01" which the Mammoth and the Gold Chain organizations each own an undivided un-divided one-half interest. This Don Pedro work Is being done on the 1,300 level of the Mammoth shaft, and re-vults re-vults are expected at an early date. The management also is developing into tho Cb-veland territory, in which the Mammoth is the mnln owner, and results are expected there shortly One close to the company said on Thursday that the Mammoth was by no means readv for the mine undertaker, under-taker, a multiplication of difficulties operating to place the organization temporarily in straitened circumstances. circum-stances. Assessment No. 1 Ts delinquent on August S. the sale dav being Aucust 27. MAMMOTH HAS ASKED FOR HELP i ' ""Recent Accident at Properly is lm- mediate Cause tor Distress J Signal. For the first time in Us long and honorable bibtory. and after the pleasant pleas-ant tusk of distributing a total of 52.',ou.on,i in dividends to stockholders. 1 Hie JlauMii.'ith MinLig company of 1 Tlntic is experiencing the novel, if I disagreeable, sensations incident to an assessment. Assessment No. 1, of 10 cents per share, has been called for by the directors, a compilation of adverse circumstances roiupellinj-' this initial demand from shareholders 1 rat her unexpectedly. It w'll be recalled that a few months ago the famous case of the Grand Central against the Mammoth company com-pany was determined definitely by the highest court In the land in favjr or the Grand Central By this final 1-cvee the Mammoth officials had 10 dig down into the company strong box and fork over ?lS7,"i'i. Appreci- I at.ng the uncertainties f mine lit 1-yation, 1-yation, the Mammoth c1 rectors. Ions before the leg-il fight was over, had iiluced the probable amunt of the juiKtiient out at lntrr-1, so that when ;iy diy came the money was ready. A few days a.o the engineer was boistiiiir a cau-e from between tho GOo and 7ti'i levels to the surface. On the cage wore twn mine tars ladu wlih ore. 1m so rn o unricroun tiiile manner Ihe eae caught, or must have caught, against the shaft limbers, the clutch winch had done efficient service for many ears was broken, and tho cage uid contents began the wild jrurney from the Ci.'u to tht l.'.l'.'i: levd. The inpid unwinding cf the cable simply tore the gallows fiame. hoisting 011-pitio 011-pitio and hoist hous? to pieces, part.-; "I the eiifiie being thrown several hundred yards.' The 12x12 limWs ;f the gallows frame were lorn into toothpicks. Fcriniiaiely, im ono was badly hurt, the engineer having a vloso call for his lire ns the wreckage wreck-age begau tn fly. The damage occasloiK-d In this ac- idoDt will total, perhaps," $20,00 . nnd an eastern machinery exnert will V- on the ground today to complete |