Show THE POLAR STAR herald wells nevada L N morrison and associates who are engaged in developing the polar star mining property two and one half miles south of warm creek inthe extreme end of clover valley are highly pleased with the showing on the property mr morrison came in Tue tuesday for the purpose of laying in a large supply of provisions and supplies for use at the mines mr morrison is an old time mining man having operated properties all over the country during the last thirty years and he feels certain that the district will soon become a large producer proa ticer A few months ago the polar istar company purchased por chased the property from mr teague who had been prospecting it for a number of months the new company now has six men at work and is putting down a double compart ment shaft the shaft being four and one half by four feet in sze size and the manway three and one half by four the shaft is now down forty feet and is timbered in sets of sixes being boarded up all the way down this shaft is in ore all the way from the grass roots to the bottom and it is proposed to prosecute the sinking to at least a depth of feet where the first station will be cut and crosscutting cross cutting will begin at a later date the will be sunk to a much greater depth the polar star company is amply financed and will do a large amount of development work in order to determine as mr morrison says exactly what exists there of the result of this development however there seems little doubt the ground is highly mineralized the surface showings being immense there is much gold silver ind and lead ores in sight giving values of from two to eighty per cent lead two to ten ounces in silver and 2 in gold to the ton the ore also carries an average of ten per cent iron making an ideal fluxing flexing or free smelting smelling sm elting ore there are now in ight hundreds of tons of this ore which can be hauled to the vestern pacific and shipped to salt lake for smelting smelling sm elting at a good profit the ore is not penalized by the smelter but on the contrary carries with it a prem ium aum the polar star company is composed entirely of utah investors and many of the foremost mining experts of the country have visited and examined the property not a single one of these experts have made an adverse report but all have shared the common belief that development will show some great mines there |