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Show CROFF C01M ORDERSNUGHINERY Will Install Hoisting Plant, Three drill Compressor and Start Shipping The mach nery for the Croft property located in the Linco n min ng d strict of Beaver county was ordered yesterday and vill be shipped to the property within the next ten days The work of putting In the concrete foundations will be start ed immed ately General Manager R R Tanner has returned to the property Be fore he left ha stated that a shipment of ore from the Lucky Boy shaft wou d arrive at the sampler as soon as the nec essary teams cou d be secured to hau It The Croff company has been financed to carry to comp et on a campa gn of de velopment work wh ch the loca officials be eve will add another sh pper to those from Beaver county A 1 detai s relative to the financing of the company were corhp eted yesterday and the work of de velop ng the ground which heretofore has been go ng on steadily wi 1 be given a greater Impetui as soon ai the machinery is Installed Th s it is expected will not be later than two weeks hence The mach nery cons sts of a ho sting plant and a three drill compressor with the necessary machine drills Accord ng to the present plans the compressor will be lnsta led near the Lucky Boy shaft where the recent strike was made and air wl be piped from that point to the Granite shaft and to other points on the property one in particular being to the tunnel ln a winze from which there Is exposed three feet of galena ore In the drift to the north and to the south from the Lucky Bov shaft there has been exposed a good body of shipping ore A cons derable tonnage has been broken and is now on the dump awaiting sh pment The strike was made in the Lucky Boy shaft w lie straightening It In b astlng away a portion of what was bel eved to be t e footwal it was found that it was a horse of 1 mestone with an excellent ore showing beh nd it The lessees who had operated t e property and -who had sh pped a considerable ton nage of ore from the Lucky Boy shaft had followed the horse of limestone and missed find ng the o e bodj |