Show BULLION FROM THE DUNCAN MINE miner rock springs wyo capt 0 AT beek beck manager of the duncan mine between south pass and atlantic city was a business visitor in rock springs this week coming in to ship 1500 worth of gold to the mint the duncan mine is is in the producer class and is shipping from to 2000 worth of ore each week the duncan mine is owned and operated by the beck mining and milling company and is only one of the good mines in that section at this time the shaft is down about feet and there are more than 1100 feet of crosscuts cross cuts and drifts with development work being pushed mill runs are now being made in the grades running from 12 to 15 and a nice profit is shown the high grade or to ore is not being touched except as taken from the drifts the management believing that it is better to develop fully before using these values when these values go through the mill it is expected that shipments will be made weekly there is quite a little town at the duncan mines in addition to the buildings and offices of the company more than forty men regularly employed in the mine and mill live there the company has just completed a new two story office building with steam heat and all the modern conveniences the mill is also being heated by steam and when this is installed it will be run twenty four hours a day the duncan mine is joined on the north by UK the mary ellen which also has some very rich ore and on the west by a patented claim of twenty acres be longing belonging to charles dawnson of this city mr swanson has not done a great deal of development work on his claim but enough to show some very rich values next year however he expects to do cons considerable id erable work and will place it in the producing class |