The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-09-01

are rapidly making 1t deeper. Ihe
owners are Geo. E. Davis and Geo.
Hawley.
Work on the Tacoma, a of mile
northeast of the Lead Chief, has just
been commenced. The shaft is down
IS feet and new contract let to sink
it I3 feet deeper. The groupings
show the vein to be about IL feet be-
tween walls. The shaft has develop
ed no pay as yet; bat the large quan-
tity of quartz promises reward in the
near future.
The recent stopping out ofthe floor in
the Lee Taylor mine has developed in
the vein two pay streaks from q to :
inches wide, which assay So: IS ozs
in silver. $40 ozs in gold and a3H
per cent. oflead. This is the assay OF
the two entire pay streaks recently de-
veloped. As depth is gained the veins
get wider and the entire vein will
doubtless turn into this rich mineral.
Work is beng pushed on the claim
night and day.
Mesrs. Graves and Marshall are still
working the Wakefeld-ln fact they
have never stopped work on it since
last fall. The upper tunnel was run
In 13o feet and then another was start
ed 400 feet below it. The. latter is in
IS feet. Fifty feet of it was cut
through slide when the crevice was
encountered, four feet wide. The
quartz contains some mineral, but has
not been worked enough to develop
anything particularly rich. Work
will be continued all winter. Some
very rich mineral was taken out of the
upper tunnel.
A junction was made between the
lower level and east winze of the We
mango last week. This gives it IS feet
more of Stopping ground full Of rich
mineral. The lower level is being
pushed steadily ahead and is now four
feet beyond its junction with the east
winze. In the breast of the east lower
drift a two foot body of richer mineral
than any yet discovered in the claim.
has been exposed, while the entire
width of the Aft vein shows good pay.
The west winze is being sunk upon and
is at present II feet below the level
Of the lower drift. 1t will be continued
some 50 feet deeper at which point
the level of the new tunnel will be
reached. This tunnel will be run in
800 feet.
The Bullion King company has let
contract to Mcxan & Co. fer shaft
house 74x7o feet, and for a boarding
house e4x35 feet. They are both to
be substantially built and finished with
dressed lumber outside. They will be
completed in about a month and will
add materially to the several attractive
improvements going on in Ruby
basin. The new incline shaft on the
Bullion King has made connection
with the northeast end of the level of
the old shaft. Graves & Balcom
made the underground survey for this
and hit it precisely. The shaft is in
good mineral and will be sunk 100 #
before levels are run. The various
developments on this property aggre-
gate 6s5 feet.
The Hopewell buildings are having
the finishing coat of paint put upon
them. Mr.. Anderson was busy putting
the last coat on the boarding house as
we passed by on Sunday. The shaft
house is completed, painting and ALL
The dwelling house only waits for its
bay window to be put on.when every
thing will be ready for occupation
The shaft is down IS feet, from which
a drift has been started to cut. the
vein, said drift being now in about 20
feet, but no mineral encountered as
yet We noticed, however, that con-
siderable mineral was beng knocked
off the cropping vein and sacked. The
machinery for the hosting works is
III transit and when it arrives and is