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Show NEW EQUIPMENT FOR BEAVEB COUNTY MINE Bon Soldat Will Be Extensively Developed During the Winter. Mr. and Mrs. .T II. Dennison Cook of Los Angolcs wore in this city yesterday, having just returned from tho Star mining district, Beaver county, wherein thcjr aro heavili' in! crested in the Bon Soldat property, a group of promising claims ndjoining the Rod Warrior and Burning Moscow territory. Mrs. Cook, who is a mining woman of technical knowledge and experience, hns boon in the game for a number of years, nnd now intends to devoto her timo and cnorgics to the development of the Beaver holdings in which she is interested. inter-ested. Past work in the Bon Soldat has resulted in tho oponing up of a prospect of great possibilities, and recent re-cent disclosures in tho Rod Warrior have been of a nature to stimulntc new interest in the surrounding claims. Mrs. Cook is of the opinion that the Bon Snldat compnny holds tho kov to the real wealth of the Star district, and sho slates that a campaign of active and systematic work will bo inaugurated inaugurat-ed nt once under tho personal supervision super-vision of Sidney Colton, whoso experience experi-ence in tho district has made him familiar fa-miliar with its characteristic formations. forma-tions. Mrs. Cook stated yesterday that a new ongino and hoisting equipment had been ordered for tho mine, and that it would be installed as rapidb ns pos-siblo pos-siblo in order that sinking may bo started. Sonic shaft work has already been done and oro characteristic of the distnct has been encounlcrod. It is tho exprossed intention of tho management, manage-ment, in the new work planned, to continue con-tinue tho vertical shaft to a depth of 200 foot to get undor tho ore exposed- in tho old incline shaft. Work will bo continued all winter, it is said, and thoso interested in tho proposition aro firm in their conviction that the present pres-ent prospect will soon develop into a big nunc. |