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Show ; LESSEES TO MILL STOPE FILLI1IS Prince of Wales Leasing , Company Formed; Rich , Stringer in Annie Tunnel. Milling operations am to start Imme-'dlately Imme-'dlately on the stope fillings In the Prince of Wales mine, located in the Big Cottonwood Cot-tonwood district. The Prince or Wales Leelng company has recently been or-Banlwvl or-Banlwvl and has taken over the slope : fllllntfs that were under lease to R. L, Mack and George T. Hansen. Messrs. :Mack and Hansen retain the rights to the ore bodies In their lease un the Prince of Wales property. According to the estimates of the engineers, engi-neers, there Is In the neighborhood of SO. 000 tons of stope fillings that will run from ti to 12 per ton in lead-silver i values. The leasing company has erected a mill designed to treat between forty and fifty tons of the fillings per day. Tests that have been made stiow that a concentrate con-centrate can he produced by the mill that will run about $126 to the ton. 1 For the purpose of handling the material, ma-terial, the company has opened up the No. 3 east tunnel. This will be used as the principal tunnel and from It the various vari-ous slopes will be worked, the fillings being drawn oft as needed. In a raise that is located between the mill and the 'No. 3 east and No. 4 east tunnels there Is at present about 410 tons of stope fillings fill-ings ready for treatment. Tills raise is being used as an ore bin. ' The company has Eigned a contract I with the Alta Tunnel & Transportation company and has laid a pipe line from ' that property to the mill site for the necessary water supply. G. T. Hansen Is president of the leasing company; George , I-'Herman, vice president and manager; J. B. Whitehlll, secretary and treasurer, who, with (i. B. Frees and O. M. Kuclts, form the directorate. Jn tho Mack-Hanson lease a stringer of pure galena ore is being followed in I he Annie tunnel, now In a distance ot !)20 feet. The stringer Is about one inch ! In width at the top of the breast and five ; 1 -Inches at the bottom. It appears to be I a stringer from the Prince of Wales fls-1 fls-1 . sure, which will be out In about twenty '! luet of driving. The miners are equipped I with machine drills and are making about , iour feet per day. |