Tombstone epitaph., 1892-08-14

been found, and the work of prospect ing is being actively pushed in the hope that fresh discoveries may be made III time to replace the present ore bodies when exhausted. There vet remains 176 feet of ground before wate- is reached, and this it is intend ed to explore by means of the Sixth level from the West Side. A drift is being run on third level to reach known ore below the 250 level of the Goodenough. and the same level is being extended into the Hawk-eye claim. A branch is also being run north on the dyke to reach the Gilded Age claim, The first and second levels are connected to workings from the Northwest mine.
 NORTHWEST MINE.
 No increase in depth has been ob- tained in this mine during the year, but large amount of exploration work, amounting to 1890 feet, has been done on the three levels already opened, The rock hOisted was s,600 tons, consisting of waste 7,1O1 tons, first-clsss ore 1852 tons, second-class ore 247 tons. The first level has been extended 34G feet in a northeasterly direction, making the total distance from the shaft S75 feet. and is connect- ed with the Combination or West Goodenough workings and the No. 6 workings, also of the Goodenough. The for:her connection has just been made, bat the latter WAS made some months ago, and has proved the con- tinuity of the ore for at least 100 feet beyond the old workings. in which it was apparently lost by vertical fault Both the Combination and No. 6, as well as the main shoot which passes over the old "hocdo hole" occupy the contact between the white limestone and the qnartzite. The main shoot has 5een found Tn the eesterly end of the GOodenough, but neither of the others. The blue limestone has been eroded from all of the westerly end of the Goodenough, and from the greater part of the westerly end of the Tough nut, leaving the quartzite and, in places, the white limestone exposed, but west of the Northwest shaft and in the Defense ground it is still in place and is being explored. Two years ago it yielded some very high grade ore and we have reason to expect more,
 TRIBUTE MINE,
 The work in this mine during the year has consisted of 250 feet of drift ing and cross-cutting. Occasional good assays were obtained. but no ore in sufficient quantity to be valus ble. and the work has been suspended for the present.
 CHAR EST N.
 The work at Charleston is about finished. It has consisted in sorting over the old slsg dump and cleaning up the mill dumps; and has yielded during the year in bullion, slag and ore lS,75S.36. The to:al yield since the work was begun has been S22,~ 3Ss. 40, and the expenses s14, ,7509S.
 DIAMOND DRILL.
 During the year diamond drilling machine has been purchased and placed in the Lucky Cuss mine. It is operated by compressed air, and will doubtless prove a valuable adjunct lo our means of prospecting, although we have hitherto been un-uceessful in finding any ore with 1t. Much troub- le has been experienced from the pe- culiar nature O. good deal of the country rock, which is an excessively hard quartzite with . tendency to break into triangular fragments and jam in the bit, not only making pro- gross slow, but causing heavy con- sumption of cartoons. Six holes have been bored, aggregating SS1 feet, or an average depth of l47.s3 feet. The average speed of boring has been ll.31 feet per day of ten hours, and the average cost $27l per foot. It is pro posed io use the drill OF other por- tions of the property where the con- ditions for that mode of prospecting are favorable.
 THE FUTURE.
 It is impossible to speak with conf dence regarding the production of the coming year. Considered whole, the mines are not looking quite as