Show DONE GROUP STARTS LOOKING LIKE MINE work on shaft and buildings is rapidly progressing it is only a week since we saw and reported the doings at the bone dry group of claims near glenwood which james B allen alien has under bond and lease from the richfield silver lead zinc co we looked it over again wednesday and found remarkable progress which proves that mr allen alien lias fins lost 01 his enthusiasm and is forging ahead at top speed during the week from tuesday of last week to yesterday the blacksmith shop of which then only was the outer frame up has been fully completed closed in with corrugated corri gated iron and brought under roof the place around the shop and the shaft has been leveled the road work has been finished and a good road is now leading up to the at the foot of th the e elevation to the side of the shaft a building has been erected to serve as office and as change room for the miners it is fully enclosed and the roof is now being shingled the shaft has been sunk to a depth of over thirty feet and when hoist and compressor are in place timber arrives and the power line will have been conducted from the nearest transformer to the machine house the sinking will progress rapidly this is what we have seen and what we understand were the writer a geologist mining engineer or even only a practical mining man he could tell a great deal more but as he is only an editor he is not able to differentiate much between common country rock and metal bearing ore he can see bov however rever that good signs of metal occur in what to him is rock and what the geologist and mining man explain to him as being carbonate ores and sulphide ores and that there is an enormous deposit of those ores and practically no end of it is intelligible to the greenest layman mr allen alien has made explorative openings on different places of the hill and lie he declares the more I 1 see the more I 1 am surprised about the magnitude of the property E F B daude consulting engineer of the richfield silver lead zinc co fully agrees with him and has no doubt that a good grade of ore will be shipped from the mine before the f first of the year sir mr allen alien goes him one better and thinks that he will ill be shipping ore in about a month that he wont have to drive the present time before he can start drifting and out gore why some day some bugger might come along and ship what we dig out from the shaft now anti and throw on the dump because I 1 am sure that some of it goes 10 and better he says he declares the mine the most promising deposit he ever saw in his long mining career when we asked mr daude what the name of the mine will be he replied that no decision in this respect has been reached yet but that the name of richfield luckis lucky y ge gem III is considered in the interest of all of sevier county we hope that this will not only be a name but a fact |