Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1906-09-13

ground. Mr.. Mcintyre says that
a big mill will be built there this
fall.
VIM. Copp of the Cherokee
Mining Company is pushing the
shaft development and expects to
be into the same run of ore as
the Diamond c within the week.
Bartlett Cooley of Galena and
his associates, under the name OF
the Micawber Mining Company
have completed a mill on the
Cousotte land and they are now
pushing the underground devel-
opment.
c. M. Hoss, of the Mckinley
Mining Company is here this
week looking after the company's
interests. Two fine boilers are
on the way from Ohio for the
new plant at this shaft. The
shaft is down to the ore and the
underground development will be
pushed as soon as the new boilers
can be set.
The Virginia Mining Company
is a new company in the camp,
which is doing fine work on its
lease just a mile west of the
Mission on the Julia Stafford
land. Charles Moll of Galena
has charge of it for the company
and he reports that the ore has
been struck i'll the shaft at y it,.
and that it shows even bette;
than the drilling, which was fine.
Mr.. Fulkerson, cashier of tn,
First National Bank of St. 10
seph, Mo-, was in the camp thi:
past week with Mr.. Geo. Ware
of the Ward mine. and expressed
himself as being aStounded at tht
amount of development worl
which has been done in this CAM
during the short time of its exist
ence. He examine the Ward
holdings and was much please,
with the splendid showing j.
made.
Mr.. Buckner of the Old Abe
Mining Company was down from
Kansas City this week and is
much pleased with the showir &
made by the new mill under til,
management of Superintendent
Stewart. The drift connecting
the two shafts has been cut
through, which gives excellent
air and will enable both shafts t.
be worked to advantage. Fur
Their development is to be started
by this company on the balance
of its forty-acre lease.
]. w. Watson, manager of the
Omaha is much gratified with the
results of the sinking of the mair
shaft at the Omaha mines. Sew
enteen feet of sinking shows tn,
ore to be continuous and the bot
tom has not yet been reached.
This sinking, so far, shows a tc-
tai depth of the ore bed to be ~
feet. The drifting on the old
level only carried about ten feet
of the ore with it. The new mill
on this property is doing fine
work and is producing 5000 to
1900 pounds of lead and 5000 to
1900 pounds of zinc, per shift.
F. F. F. Mining Company has
been stripping off twenty feet of
soft ground from the eighty-foot
bed of rich ore on its lease and
now is in a position to go ahead
and make a record on its mill.
This is a most remarkable de-
posit, the ore coming to within
twenty feet of the surface and
the two shafts showing wonder
fully rich ore down to the ore
hundred-foot level. The amount
of ore milled from this lease
shows a 10per cent concentrating
proposition and during some
shifts has run as Is per cent.
During reunion week the Mis-
sion Mining Company took adj
vantage of the lay down of the
operations in the camp to push
the sinking of its No. 3 shaft and
did well with the sinking. This
week it is turning out its usual
amount of lead and zinc Plans
aud bids are being received for
the construction of its big /, 000- |
lo,, mill ard INST ae cnor, ~ ft,o