Show EXTENSIVE WOH K BEING ON THE ZINC MINES to bo be spent in developing properties of salina lead zinc co this summer extensive plans for the developing of the salina lead zinc company were perfected wednesday of this week on the arrival of robert buni bum 5 arl president i of the coni company pany from salt lake sir mr burns motored to salina in a truck bringing mith ith him suitable machinery toge together tiner witch a hoist and compressor to begin the sinking of a five hundred foot shaft which is in tended intended by the present management to be completed by the fall of 1927 much of the needed materials and and machinery are already at the property and with the arrival of two cars of timber the developing work will pro giesa 1 I at the present time tane I 1 men are at work clearing space and doing the necessary grading for the foundation of engine and compressor rooms and blacksmith shop with this accomplished carpenters will be put on the job and within the next few weeks everything will be in readiness n ess to begin sinking the shaft the extensive development work contemplated by the management during the summer was made possible by the united efforts of salt lake and eastern capitalists who have appropriated the sum of to be spent this year on the salina lead zinc properties per ties assays essays of the ore since the beginning of the cevelo development work have showed traces of high grade but latest investigation by geologists of the international smelters shelters Sm elters show there to be an exceptional good vein measuring four feet in thickness and av emagine forty per cent of zinc together with other values in lead and silver an assay was taken of ore at a depth of fifty feet which if followed to a depth of feet is believed will lead to a larger vein and greater values at the present time the company is only working wording the property of the lead le ad zinc company situated 24 2 miles up the canyon but it is the intention 9 of incorporating the other properties owned and operated by the burns bums brothers under the same name in the very near future |