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Show BAflRY-COXE WILL 1PJJTS ORE Another Park City Properly Was Opened Last Winter to Good Purpose. Work during the past winter months has been pushed ahead energetically on the Barry-Coxe properly of tho Park City section, and arrangements aro being be-ing perfected at the present time for the beginning or ore shipments to the Salt Lake smelters. A number of directors have returned from this mine, tho party consisting of G. E. Coxe. D. K. Swuyzs, James Davidson and J. A. Mauerbach- Mr. Coxe stated to Tho Tribune yes-terduy yes-terduy that tho company first opened Its ores via a shaft, and after determining Its proper dip and strike a tunnel was started to tap the samo ores at a vertical depth of about 150 feet. This tunnel work was prosecuted during the winter and the ore has been encountered as expected. ex-pected. There lo a strong fissure six feet In width within which th oro occurs, oc-curs, while It makes off as wpII Into the beddings, and the ore Is characteristic of all the Inrge producers of the Park City section. The management at present Is negotiating negoti-ating an oro. contract with the local smelters, the Intention being to ship two main products one a zinc and the other a silver-lend rock. There aro several sev-eral thousand tons of ore ready for the market. The company Intends to Install In-stall considerable now equipment during tho summer and to send In a long tunnel, tun-nel, which will secure a vertical depth upon the resources of 1000 feet. The silver-lead ore has boeh shown up to a depth of 150 feet so far. while there Is a depth of 350 feet on the r.lnc ores. The property is located mainly in the Thayne and Iron canyons, extending over the divide into the Big Cottonwood section sec-tion also, and It Is considered among the splendidly located groups of that section. |