Show mining matters ci an order was i laced this week by colonel mr M ferry of this city for machinery which will be placed at tho old bencoe mine which ie BOW known aalthe terry pro petty included in alie order is a cable foot line compressor one horse power high pressure steam boiler one librae tower heater and two large air receiver also a double action 1014 geared hoisting engi e in eluding cable and all other necessary equipment together with a carload of pipe and other supplier this will be encouraging news to who will realize that it meana the systematic development on a large scale of this property which will open up this section of the alining district in good shape con eid erable work has been done at the G bencoe already both by mr Cur lisand mr ferry and the prospect has opened the most promising lathe camp some high grade ore has been taken out at different times and though the bodies for encountered have been email there ie es larger and permanent bodies will be found tl ere are now fourteen men at work on the mine ani the grad ing for the new boiler house is complete it ie the intention to put the engine and hoist at the end 0 the tunnel and sink on the vein aluch 1 as eo tar opened up encouragingly AT THE ONTARIO at the ontario mine beveral improve dents hae been ma ie of late and every thing is in readiness tor the winters work A large juanity of timber ie on the ground and a saw ha been installed to cut it up in ta the proper lengal s the carpanter shop is up and a rope room where the new cables are ma ie has also been erected A now flat cable is now in course of construction and it ie very interesting to watch the work the cable ie composed of 17 strands each berand consisting of a dozen or more wires tl e strands are unwound fron large spools by means 0 an engine and are kept taut beta een iron wedges w hile another bunch of wire ie interwoven among the other strands everything is very conveniently arranged about the works and down the mine foreman connolly is meeting with very encourage ing success thirty two docs of ore have been haul ed down the new york this week and the ore bodies are just as large and look more encouraging meanwhile be stock is being hammered unmercifully by the salt lake brokers and it is more than passing that while this property is shipping ore and has more in sight the stock is down to 25 cent while that of its neighbor which has benno very good indications of pay rock i eoannu around the 2 mark it s a state of affairs that can be explained only bv the brodere CAMP jack creen the veteran prospector ad mining man of this camp has been salt lake all week the shaft at the st loun ontario ia now down feet and work is progress ine nicely it is the to ink to the 1000 toot point when it is thought large ore bodies will be in the last issue of mines and miner als the well known mining magazine ol 01 scranton pa F W sherman of this city and has an interesting and comprehensive article on tt et concentration he describes fully the system now in use at the daly west mills the roads near the daly judge mill in empire banyon is lit bad shape owing to the overflow of w ater from alie creek when the improvements were made on the road last summer blumes flumes were put in and this baa improved it somewhat though the water will probably have to be flamed aalthe way dow n to do away with the trouble completely shortage of water is causing some trouble at the daly west at this time and ia lessening somewhat the output of the mill to partly aid matters tanks are being put in below the elidea mill that the water from t ie mill may be collected and after having settled be pumped up to the mill and used over again the new tables are now being placed in the new addition to the big mill and with them in operation the plant e output will be easily handled superintendent james of the comstock Co matock went to the city yesterday afternoon on business he r ports every bing in splendid condition at the mine progress being anade in the ui raise 0 o alie ore body though in blasting rock an average of five feet per day is being ma ie ith the hand drills mr staled that he could not eay when the ore body would be reached as the condition of the ground would have a great deal to do with it however the mine is in a very encouraging condition john thomson alo until recently was in charge of the machine slope at the dala west is now at the little bell where the work of extending the tunnel to the est quincy ia progress ine nicely three evitts are being worked and two machine drill are in use so that notwithstanding the hard ground now being encountered good progress is being made the compressor from the wolverine property has been set up at the bell though it will be re placed soen by a new ene statements in our mention of the daly west company last week regard ing abu proposed as cente per quarter dividend were somewhat misleading it be understood tl at the jiel bend will probably oro bably be paid at the rate of 25 cent par month or 75 cents per quarter and not 25 cents per quarter as might have been inferred from the notice in question nothing definite has been decided upon leftover ie thought that the director will agree upon thle rian wien they meet next february development work goo steadily on t the tta basli though there I 1 lollini new to report and no reason for tie jump the stock 1 a taken during the pat two week in f act it has been freely ase ertel a allm ir etere n t th eipl gained by rot countenance n abo exchange the mien HI conditi n of be new bonanza however ie very to holders of wabash stock the covered trestle at the mine has been extended out over the road and the company pie ground on which to damp their dirt abt SHIPMENTS diew yorla bonanza ca paly beet lose kearns keith ontario 62 ontario total 1 51 5 grand total |