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Show CALUMET LEAD IS IMPROVING DAILY High Grada In Stop Increases, According Ac-cording to Reports From Property. More high grade ore is coming into the stope of the Calumet lead miue in Iron county, according to reports received re-ceived at the headquarters of the company com-pany yesterday morning. The foreman in charge of the work in the absence of the superintendent wrote: Yesterday afternoon the ore got much better and today it surely looked fine: lots of galena mixed with it. This ore is on top of the sets and pitchiug toward the hill and going back toward the shaft. It seems to come from the hanging wall. The truck will go in again in the morning with another load. It looks as though we have about ten truck loads on the platform now. If the ore continues to hold out we cau get it out by windlass much faster than the truck can haul it. Superintendent Wundorlirh, who hn? been in Salt Lake l;a intl the automobile used at the mine fur hoisting overhauled, started back yesterday morning. ' The Calumet is La new district in the northwestern corner of Iron county. The ore exposure described by the lore-man lore-man is in a drift under the big cave opened in December. The officers are positive that the ore will continue up twenty-five feet to the floor of the cave and do not doubt that the shoot will go down hundreds of feet as it occurs oc-curs in a contact between lime and porphyry. por-phyry. The nine cars already shipped from the property had an average lead content con-tent of 25 per cent, which would make the ore worth at present lead quotations about $45 per ton gross. |