Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-21

mo main shaft descends low W.
rao,lv n6-third Of mile as Sl'als"'
as a plumb line can make it. says 0"'
ner curran in the Los Angeles lln, ,,..
first visited the stampFoou" , ,,.
,,on,v immense iron rods were DOB.
MOg M and down with a deateI''p Y,
soap. Conversation was impossible u
,hIs building on account OF the nol' .,
Your words seemed to be thrust O'vN
aown your throat. as if your weak 'i-
,ort "a create any additional vibrations
IN the oyercharged atmosphere were
an imposition. Al.
The young engineer In charge W..
Iund however, knew exactly "ha' W
40 and showed me all the points OF ln-
taro s was a little timid about en-
tsrine the building at first as tile slg i.'
mo Admttanoe' ana the 'erri"o '''''''
suggested terrible things Ia, and
Twenty stamps pound away d"y ,r ",'
nigbt crushing nifty tons oil foCh eNI,y
swsn1v. four hours. The Old ape llIlle
~ called a low-grade proposition s oe
oost of lhe ore only runs from u 10 Wv
- cold ner ton. Occasionally Buou
racee,s or veins run as high as SoV per
,on The entire mine Is run ON 1t
rynct,cal and scientific basis, and hence
the handsome profit each month, ' w
Old Abe Is the only mine running ~
thls vicinity although the surr0un, nv,
Inc billsIdes are full Of prospect holes,
ana covered with good buildings soII'u
on which contain pretty iair lllll'nb
ulanis with proper management, no
doubt many Of these adjacent mines
could be made to pay handsomely me
entire mountain Is great body OIL ore
The old Abe is now employing apou'
thirty-iiye men al,
After the ore Is crushed, q small
stream of water washes II from u.loer
the dies and 1t flows In a muddy sheet
over plates coated with quicksilver
witch catches most Of the gold What
gold escapes Is caught by the cyanide
process,
From the stamp mill ! was taken up
the hin a little ways, ana turned over
to Mr.. Keith First we visited the en-
CINE room Here Is an immense moist
run by l6O-horse power engine. The
one and one-half inch cable Is 2,2o0 feet
long and every foot tested TO a twenty
ton capacity so one gainG confidence
before the descent Is made The gong
sounds one, two. three, four; one, two
'she immense wheels begin to reVolve,
rlowly 1T FIRST then faster until the
piston strokes are almost as fast as
ole can count Yet at every stroke Of
Che piston the ore car 10 brought six
teen feet nearer the surface
The fastest time In which Q loaded car
las been brought M from the 1880
FOOT level and an empty car returned "
I've minutes. when one thinks of the
distance travelled $500 feet one-half
~ that perpendicular It win be seen
that this Is pretty fast work
The numbers given by the gong In.
dictate the different levels where the
next stop IS to be made An immense
dial with pointer which reyolyos llkc
the hand on the clock, tells the engl-
1eer the exact location Of the hoist at
every moment He has perfect control
OF the machinery. but must keep a level
head, for In his hands are the lives Of
his comrades at all hours Of the day
A misinterpretatlon Of the Signals, or
a false start might prove disastrous
to many men,
We next visited the bunk house and
were given Il pair Of greasy ovcrails,
o jumper to match, a cap ahd a candle
In an iron holder | can only imagine
how looked. | do not believe the
sheriff would have recognized me werv
o s5,0DO reward out for me.
The gong sounds the cable huns,
and up shoots the car out Of the seem,
ingly b0ttomess pit The loaded ear
= replaced by an empty one, the safety
Jock Is unattached. and the car starts
downward My guide has made no mo
lion, and | begin to wonder whether
we shall have to make a dying leap
for the car from it stops level with
;he shaft house floor. The engineer
RncNs we are 10 descend, and lowers
She car to the exact point TO make It
easier for us to step aboard.
We step IN, take a seat on the edge
Of the car, the signal is given and away
we go. Talk about going down the
Kyrne Block elevator Just add enough
stories TO that building until you have
II as high as Echo Mountain House on
MI, Lowe, and then you win have some
idea Of the distance down that shaft
At fist ] was inclined to hang onto
anything ] could get hold Of, I coula
see the sides Of the shaft shooting up
past us then all became dark. We be-
gar to 80 faster and faster.
Mr. Keith struck q match and said.
I'VE will light our candles The draft
was not strong going down, but nearly
every time we came up our candles
would 60 out
THE ffty-foot level sang out Mr.
Keith before we got our candles lighted.
The loO-foot $50 and 2OO.foot levels
were quickly passed.
From here down to 500 feet" said
Mr. Keith no tunnels are made. From
900 TO 1900 feet We have tunnels every
hfty feet"
The car takes an extra speed down
ward but the hoist runs on It's wooden
track as smoothly as a passenger clio
vator In a little over minute tho
NO'ioot level Is reached and from there
on the dark, gaping holes Of the
shafts fash out before us at regular
intervals.
The speed Of the cars slackens and
" comes to a stop as neatly as n
the engineer were aboard and not one.
third Of mile away.
We step out on terra nrma-but whai
FEELING Thirteen hundred feet oil
rock and dirt between us and N,
blessed sunshine Would Gabriel
trumpet ever Doe able To resurrect Ms
should we be buried under such bur
den? such thoughts az these persis
IN entering my head hut Mr.. keith
starts out and have nothing to do bu
10 follow
No timbers are overhead The ledp,
or rock is not solid but broken AN,
crnmolmg as on the surface. one woult
MINK the pressure from above woul,
De enough TO make everything soli,
rock Yet no accident has over han
pened IN this mine from a cave-ln.
we follow the shaft beck goo faet Z,
The end Of q little side drift Hero 4
MINER al alone, picking NJ the loose
erun,bllng rock. biz dynamite bias
has been fred only few mlnutes he
iore ana he y eagerly looking nj th
VEN 20 see II y Is not richer than (
was before What an exciting He
n,ut, pei hach blast may oron "a pocl,o
ot the rich SPARKLING nugrats or dts
c'use huch better on wider vein
The blast had thrown ort inc hroto
rock until there was ori, ~" proNe
three-foot space ur5,r .h' 'u"ul