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Show DESERET 111! PLEASES DIRECTOR J. H. Turner Talks of the Showing After' Careful Inspection of Mine. J. H. Turner, a director of the Deseret Mountain Mines com pan;", operating in the West Tintic district, returned last night, after spending a week at the mine and the "SS" group, a near-by property, which he is developing. Concerning conditions at the Deseret Mountain. Mr. Turner said : I left the mine last Saturday and at that time a force was busy grading grad-ing and leveling the site for the new machinery and its foundation and for the building to house the machinery. With this machinery installed, the cost of extraction will be greatly reduced. re-duced. Two air drills will then be put to work stoping the ore now Mocked out; one will be used in drifting and one in sinking. This will be alternated by using one drill in stoping and three for sinking and drifting. Keseret Mountain will then be a permanent fixture among the regular shippers, and one of the best features is that; the ore is a high-grade copper. cop-per. In the stope there was a face of eight feet of line ore, and at the connection of the north drift with shaft No. 2 a three-foot body of ore was struck. Some of this ore was raised and included In the car they were loading when I was there. This car is scheduled to leave for Garfield smelter today. |