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Show I The Mill to Start . at Chloride Point Plant to Bo Bemocleled nnd Made to Reduco tho Second-Class Ores of the Property. That the mill with which the properties prop-erties of the Chloride Point company on Lion hill, Tooele county, was equipped some years ago la to be remodeled re-modeled and the second-class ores made to respond to the needs of Betsy and the babies is now quite positively 1 1.1 -t ,- Of rln1v nnn nf the lessees, last night. Tests made by hint and George Clark, his associate associ-ate In the lease, have demonstrated conclusively that these ores can be prolltably leached, and with the approval ap-proval of the company, which was pledged them when they undertook to reclaim the mines, such methods as arc adapted to the requirements of the ore will be installed. Since taking hold of the Chloride Point. Messrs. St. Clair and Clark huvomrtrketed ores of the value of about 520,000, with another carload now at the sampler, while It is hoped that they will get one more in nt least before the snows begin to pile llIMeanwhlle these gentlemen, with others in the locality, arc arranging for the development of a new gTOiip of claims underlying the old Zclla, -which -was operated by the Messrs. "Walker and Marcus Daly at an early day, and from which a. large amount of wealth ;ib derived. It la the intention to drive a tunnel into the new group that shall tap the ledge at considerable depth, and to this end work will be Inaugurated In-augurated In a short time. At the Northern Light some prospecting pros-pecting Is being done by the company, while the Messrs. St. Clair are operating oper-ating a lease with the outlook quite assuring, as-suring, notwithstanding the dismemberment dismem-berment of the old mill and the forwarding for-warding of Its machinery to various parts of the State. The visitors have never believed other than that Lion , hill will be made ultimately very productive, pro-ductive, the ores with which they have this time come showing 125 ounces silver, sil-ver, with 52 gold per ton. |
