Show DO WE HAVE words of condolence como to us aiom numerous parts of the country offering sympathy to paik city in its afflicted moment but are we afflicted and how Is it because the empire has been closed do a to latif credit orsa if our antei ests leavo been ingui cd bv this we should like to have some one tell us in what aside from throwing a gaiffe number of men out of employment some of the dispatch ea inform us that the mine never pro dacej a pound of ore riving the inference thai work was prosecuted the entire depth of the shaft ban en ground without the least indications of oie who behave behove that such is the cae need onla come to the parl and look at what little chloride ore there 13 on the to p ove that the company was in possession of strong evidence that they must go to the deep get a inac ibis they lag to do nhen crowell failed and he mine was shut down it is true that the ampire has produced but very little 01 none but that does not prove that dein cath the fifty 01 feet fairbel down a rich body of ore ba or in some of the drift 1 extended father rf men 0 mining elpe nence and a knowledge of pi edict aba there is ahead worth boing poing after in what way should the failure of the empire affect tho mines and this camp if it had been a producing rune and pinched out perhaps there buu have beca just and other would have been injured by it to the con biary no large bodies of ore have beca found and no shipments made but the all alo liay down 13 well defined with bunches of rich OIB of chloride and black sulphur ets assaying hicri but that does not seem to make any I 1 the producing properties of the camp public sentiment generally tramples upon facts and mento nou prope ty is condemned those minus any credit or Ri erit we will suppose that a compary of men will get together and sink a hole anywhere I 1 without abo least trace cf mineral put the property on the stock clai ler and by abo deoch up to a bis figure and investigation would prevo of course that it was a gigantic swindle but it does not folio that prodoc ny mines should bear in the case 0 the empire be discoverers had encourage enco ment from the first the company were confident thit a mine and a baij bij one wag under the discovery hat there produced yd to prove that tho empire 11 a fizzle if it has been im it is not the fault of the propel ty a mine 13 bots nots mine until it is a producer and this the empire would doubtless be if it could be auak suak down deeper |