. [Reports]. .43 feet deep,.and was completed in 1892. The company has eleven shafts on their property in thevicinity of Flat River. Six of these, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 9, areactive, while the five remaining shafts have been abandoned, tem-porarily at least. Another shaft was started near No. 8 in 1907, but work onthe same was suspended before it had progressed very far. The workings in Mines Nos 1 and 4 are connected as are alsothose in Mines Nos 2 and 3. Each of the other mines is reachedby a single three compartment shaft. All of the operating shafts areequipped with modern hoisting applia
. [Reports]. .43 feet deep,.and was completed in 1892. The company has eleven shafts on their property in thevicinity of Flat River. Six of these, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 9, areactive, while the five remaining shafts have been abandoned, tem-porarily at least. Another shaft was started near No. 8 in 1907, but work onthe same was suspended before it had progressed very far. The workings in Mines Nos 1 and 4 are connected as are alsothose in Mines Nos 2 and 3. Each of the other mines is reachedby a single three compartment shaft. All of the operating shafts areequipped with modern hoisting appliances. Mine No. 6 was aban-doned soon after the shaft was sunk, owing to the building of theIllinois Southern railroad which runs so close as to make a veryinconvenient crossing for the Mississippi River and Bonne Terrarailroad spur. Shaft No. 5 is a pump shaft, ninety feet from ShaftNo. 4, which was sunk to drain the latter shaft after it had beendrowned out by an extremely heavy flow of water from a DOE RUN LEAD CO. 165 No. 7 is an abandoned shaft near No. 2. One of the two remainingshafts is located on the property formerly owned by the UnionLead Company and the other is what was formerly No. 1 of theColumbia Lead Co. The ore from these several mines is milled and roasted at DoeRun, where the company has a concentrating plant and matte is shipped to Herculaneum, where it is refined at theplant owned by the St. Joseph Lead Company. A new concentrat-ing plant is being constructed south-west of Central station on theMississippi River and Bonne Terre railroad, to supplement the oneat Doe Run. The Doe Run plant has a daily capacity of 110Oshort tons, while the new plant will have a capacity of 1200 shorttons. This company has produced from its several properties, includ-ing those at Doe Run, up to December 31, 1906, about 213,000short tons of lead concentrates, valued at about $9,700,000. Dur-ing the same period there was produced by the mines owned bythe Co
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