Weekly journal-miner., 1915-09-08

SlSSO pSOplS TOT lHS purchase or ZUU,
 GOO Of its treasury shares at a price
 considerably in advance of present
 quotations on the stock. The direc
 torate will on September 5th meet
 the payment due under the terms ot
 the Horseshoe-Reed option, and will
 increase the working force at the mine
 by adding third shift.
 Each additional foot of depth in
 the United Western shaft demon strates more thoroughly that the vein (which passed through the shaft on its dip to the south has strengthened and that it will re-enter the shaft on its true dip to the north at about the 300-foot point. A depth of 300 feet will be gained early this month and concurrently there is likely to be an ore discovery of promising pos abilities announced. During the last few days a marked change is notice able in the andesite country rock. This is especially true on the south side of the shaft, where vein indica- tions are pronounced. The manage ment is considering the advisability of cross-cutting to the south at a depth of 300 feet with the object of opening up an ore body. Mineral conditions indicate that ore will be found nearby the shaft and that it will conform closely in character and value with the ore opened at depth of 200 feet in the United Eastern workings, the 2OO-foot level in the latter mine, owing to the topography of the intervening country, tallying closely with the 3OO-foot point in the United Western shaft.
 Itinerary of Visitors.
 Messers. Jewett and Wollberg in spected the United Western property during their tour of the camp and expressed themselves as being favor ably impressed with its ore-yielding probabilities. Aside from the United Western, their itinerary included a visit to the Tom Reed mill; an in spection of the mammoth shoot of $50 ore opened in the United East ern bonanza; trip through the Gold Road mine; a visit to the Pioneer mine and the neighboring estate of the Arizona-Tom Reed Company, and a trip to the Ivanhoe, Pittsburg, Gold Reed, Jerome-Oatman and other min ing estates of value in the north end of the district.
 Their tour of the south end of the district included an inspection of the Big Jim, Black Eagle, Telluride, Oat- man Mining and Milling, Orion, Car ter, Boundary Cone, Lexington, Black Range, Nellie, Murdock, Kraus, Armill, George and More holdings The old Moss mine, a famous pro ducer of high grade ores in the late sos, the Mossback, the Leland and he Ruth properties were likewise visited
 Eastern Surprises Them.
 The climax was reached when the visitors were shown the huge ore shoot in the United Eastern mine. They pronounced it one of the most remarkable ore bodies they have ever seen and said it surpasses in value and proportions all they have ever read or heard about it. The ore shoot, as opened from the breast of the west drift on the 460-foot level to the breast of the east drift on the 565-foot level, measures 646 feet at the time of filing this dispatch, and carries pay grade milling ore every foot of its length. The face of each drift is in ore and there is no indica- ton the termination of the shoot is near at hand. Development plans as at present in force have in view the extending of the drifts on the 460 and 565-foot levels to the end lines of the property. The shoot will then | be crosscut at regular intervals and ore be blocked out in readiness for | reduction at the mill the company will | soon build.
 Ore shipments in increasing ton mage from the United Eastern mine marked the opening of the current month and added to the prestige and | value of this latest addition to the | shipping properties here. Thirty tons of $50 ore are now being forwarded l daily from the Eastern mine to the | Gold Road mill, whereas during Au gust the shipments averaged about Is tons per day. Inadequate trans portation facilities have curtailed and are yet curtailing orc shipments from the mine, with the result that the aggregate daily tonnage is not yet up to the weight mark set by Me Iver and Long at the time the first consignment was billed to mill. MT. McIver informs me, however. that