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Show I TO SIMPLIFY OUTLET FROM THE UTAH MINE The management of the Utah mine ni Fish Springs in the Deep Creek country has finally decided that Its ores are entitled to a more economical outlet and has now under consideration a plan for its equipment with a traction engine. en-gine. To deliver a ton of them at Oasis, the loading station on the San Pedro, under present methods, said Joe Obern-dorfer, Obern-dorfer, a member of Its household, now Incurs en expense of $12.50 with the tariff tar-iff between that station and the furnaces fur-naces of the American Smelting & He-lining He-lining company to be added, the total rost of loadirg and transportation, approximately ap-proximately $15 per ton. That this encroachment en-croachment upon the earnings is a severe se-vere one the management has long realized, rea-lized, and with a machine that will require re-quire only prnsollne to operate it the expense, ex-pense, in the opinion of the board, ought to be reduced. At all events it is bing inquired into notwithstanding tho efforts of a well known promoter to placs the property of the companyalong with neighboring locations in new landf While the mine has been productive pro-ductive of dividends exceeding $200,000, it has been at an expense that only the bsst quality of ores would endure and. as urged by a director the property, had its wealth been permitted to accumulate accumu-late until transportation did reach Its 1 bins, It would have today been one of th mos'. valuable in the State. It 13 said that If the dicker for the mine be consummated that the forwarding of , or;3 will ho suspended until conditions .are more favorable to transportation. |