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Show LEAD TARIFF IS COKSHO FIXED Yellow Pine Mining District Rolls Up Sleeves and Gets (0 Work. MANY MINES READY TO BEGIN SHIPPING Zinc and Lead Producing Camp Casts Aside All Pessimistic Thoughts. ' Special to- The Tribune. GOODSPR1NGS, Jscv., April 2L The fact that the larifT on lead ores will not bo reduced, and that, zinc is to.be taxed one rent upon all ores, bus resulted re-sulted in renewed activity in M10 Yellow Yel-low Pine mining district. Miuing companies com-panies and property owners in this fjreat. baso metal camp, who havo been curtailing in their operations until tho tariff matter upon load and zinc ores-was ores-was settled, aro pushing forward their developments vigorously, now that a stable and permanent, market is practically prac-tically assured. Tho Yellow Fine Mining company shipped last week a carload of high-grade high-grade mixed ores (lead nnd -.inc) to Mineral Point, Wis:, aud is hauling another an-other to tho railroad at Jean. C4encral iManager Kent of this companv reports thai, in pushing forward the south drift on tho second level, a large bodv of hitherto unsuspeclcd mixed ores "was encountered. Assay returus from this body show mclnl contents of 70 per cent in lend and zinc. This, will bo good news to tho directors and ofhei:il.s of tho coninnnv wlin ImM Hmlf .,,,.! meeting here on April 21. liobbins Bros, havo commenced shipping ship-ping zinc ore from their Alice group, puo carload of high-grado zinc car-bouatos car-bouatos leaving for Kansas points this week. Surveyors havo been nt work upon this property during tho past wepk laying out. new stopes and adits, which will greatly facilitate the economical stoping of the vast oro bodies of zinc and copper in this property. Hon. Frank "Williams, regent of tho stato university and general m.-iuagor of the Kansas-Nevada company, has resumed re-sumed operations upon tho Hoodoo mine of that company. This propertv is destined to boconio'onc of tho largest shippers in tho camp. Feaster .- Frederickson, leasors of tho Frederick Ward mine, aro opening up some large ore bodies of zinc oar-bouatcs oar-bouatcs on that property, preparatorv to making regular shipments to the Kansas smelters. Springer & Hardy's Blue Jay mine has resumed operations. A carload of high-grade copper oro consigned to Salt Lake smelters will lenvc this property iu the very near future. The Oro Amigo (Hardy & Over) is also preparing a carload 'of high-grade copper for shipment to Salt Lake. S. C. "Root has a carload of high-grade galena upon his Bonanza dumps ready for shipment. jjavia, .lonnson. who recently shipped a carload of lead from his " property near the Tarn O'Shantcr mine, lias received re-ceived his smelter returns, which show an assay return of 71 per cent lend from tho shipment. The properties at the. soul hern end of tho district arc rapidly forging to tjio front, the past week having added two new producers to the list of shippers. Another new shipper iu this section is tho Anchor mine, owned by Yount & Fa.yle, who have lately encountered a large body of zinc carbonates and silicates, sil-icates, aud who will begin hauling to the railroad at once. Reports from the Monte Cristo mine, the pioneer shipper in this section, state 1 that the management has recently bro-! bro-! keu into the largest ore body yet encountered en-countered on this ground, the same being be-ing tapped by the new adit. This property, prop-erty, in spite of the unsettled markets, has been shipping stendily to Bartles-ville. Bartles-ville. Ok., since last November. J. William Knight of Provo.' Utah, spent a. few days investigating our lead and zinc deposits last mouth, and expressed ex-pressed himsolf as highly pleased with showings of mineral deposits and new developments in the district. Messrs. Shader & Johnson of Los Angeles, An-geles, owners of the old Novada-Key-stonc. made au inspection of the property prop-erty this week with their engineer, who will immediately draw up plans for the new improvements at this mine. This old property, the pioneer mine of the district, has produced in its sixteen years of cxislenco over $1,000,000 in gold entirely from its high-grade ores alone. The present owners eont emulate tho building of a pipe line from Good-springs Good-springs to furnish water for the new mill and cyanide plant to be erected at the mine. Tho expenditure of some $200,000 at this mine will enable the 1 owners to extract the gold from their vast bodies of auriferous porphyries, which assay :?6 per ton, aud have hitherto hither-to been unprofitable .owing to the haul to Sandy, the site of the old Keystone mill. |