Show COMSTOCK ELECTRIC carson city nov april the big new 1 electric pumps the first on the installed at the 2150 lever ot station of the C C chaft of the consolidated virginia california company were started into complete and successful operation aut blugh h sudden and unexpected breakdown break down to the hoisting machinery work had to be suspended with the exception sl of the pump it was the main shaft of the hoisting engine sixteen inches in diameter that i broke this is the powerful steam en gine which has hoisted so much rich ore from the bonanzas in years past and was now about to be supplanted by improved electric machinery the breaking of that ponderous shaft was like breaking the heart of the great old engine but its electric rival is near at band soon to take its place meanwhile practical mining and ore hoisting Is cw and about men out i ofa job for a short time all andert ground operations leave to be conducted through the deep shaft of the union r mining company near by the drifts and lower levels of both mines con leniently communicating the new pumps will simply hold the water where it is just below the 21 SO station until the great surface hoisting machinery geta into operation when it is proposed to drain the shaft and lower levels to the bottom or 2500 level this serious breakdown ia unfortunate and unpropitious it the very of a new era in the history of the aho re of preparation for deeper mining and the reopening of those lower levels for the past sixteen years but the ia only temporary all right again soon |