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Show GOUTM CENTER OF GREATAGTlViTY j Many Mining Companies Report Increasing Ore Output and Shipments, Special to The Tribune. COLD KILL, Oct. 27. The "Woodman Mining company will load another shipment ship-ment of copper ere from the i'rankie mine this week. A winze is being sunk, from the main tunnel in a vein of copper cop-per ore, ajid discovery of scheelite in the Vein at a depth of 100 feet from the surface has been. made. As the character char-acter of the ore is such that the schee-iite schee-iite may be separated by concentration, the matter wiil be investigated by the management. High-grade scheelite ore was also discovered in a ten-foot hole above the tunnel, some samples being estimated to carry 30 per cent tungsten. In addition to the winze work, tho company com-pany is drifting and raising from the tunnel. At the "Western Utah Copper mines the Ubiial force of seventy-five to eighty men is employed and a large amount of development wcrk i being done. Some very fine bunches of ore are being found in the winze at 175 feet below the 300 level. At 200 feet a station is to be cut and deep exploration work carried forward. It is rumored the company is planning to install furnaces in which to roast some classes of ore and make recovery re-covery of arsenic on a commercial scale. Sixteen sacks of high-grade tungsten ore and concentrates have been shipped to the sampler at Murray by OUie Young and one sack was shipped by Castle & Stinson, all coming from the Clifton end of the district. Allen & Croaker are producing scheelite ore from the Mian-taonah Mian-taonah claim owned bv the Hall estate, and situated a short distance from Clifton. Clif-ton. Some of the highest grade copper-sil-yer-gold ore found in the district is being be-ing mined by the Copperopolis company from its principal workings that join the Western Utah Copper on the east. The Copperopolis is controlled by the Bamberger-Dunyon interests. A recent .shipment of second-grade ore carried 9 per cent copper, 10 ounces silver and $10.b'0 gold per ton, while the high-grade high-grade ore carries up to 50 and 60 per cent copper, 60 ounces silver with $15 to $20 gold to the ton. Two feet of solid ore of this kind is exposed in the bottom bot-tom of a winze seventy-five feet below the main tunnel, and a large amount of the ore is being extracted from a drift to the south from the bottom. M. Merrill of Salt Lake, owner of the Tiger group situated near the Indian reservation south from Gold Hill, passed through town Monday on his way to the property where work is to be resumed. re-sumed. Some silver and silver-lead ore in sight will be mined and shipped, and additional development work in the shaft and tunnel will follow. But before be-fore starting on his own property Merrill Mer-rill will put up a raise from the 135-foot incline of the Jumbo mine, that is owned by T. R. KUerbeck of the Utah Fire Clay company, and Jack Edwards, a stockman of Denver. A shipment is being made from the Christmas company's property, situated about four miles east from Gold Hill. The ore carries up to 364 ounces silver to the ton, according to Manager Hart-man, Hart-man, with about 30 per cent lead, and, the lot being sent to the smelter, is expected ex-pected to net $100 a ton or better. |