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Show UTAH ZINC SUPS CUD GF ORE Special to The Tribune. EUREKA, Dec. 29. B. F. Fleiner. who was in camp this week for the Christmas liolidavs, says that the ore teams have just finished hauling a carload of ore from the Utah Zinc property, which he controls and in which quite a number of local people are interested. This ore was hauled to the loading station at Lucerne on the Delta branch of the Salt Lake Route and it will be billed out during the present week. Mr. Fleiner says the ore will run high in lead and silver and he hopes to follow this shipment with others, if the wagon road remains open throughout the winter. Regarding the property of the Utah Zinc Mining company he says he is now-sinking now-sinking a winze from the upper tunnel level and that 'he has been following a fine bunch of lead ore for a distance of about forty feet with this winze. When he left the mine to come to Eureka there was four feet of excellent lead-zinc ore in the bottom of this winze and he believes be-lieves that the ore body which is being followed there is one of the largest and best yet found in the property. It is quite "probable that the lower tunnel will be driven in a distance of about 100 feet in order to open up this and other deposits de-posits that have been found in the upper levels of the mine. This tunnel will give the workings an additional depth of about 150 feet. At the Ilappv Jack property, owned bv Mr. Fleiner, Phil Clark and Jackson Jack-son McChrystal, there is a shipment or two of ore on the dump, but the owners of the claim have decided to wait for a better lead market. Mining men who have interests In the Wtst Tintio and Erickson districts, to the west of Ttntic, are highly elated because of the likelihood of a railroad being built into that part of the state. Locally it is rather difficult to learn anything regarding the road, other than the reports re-ports which have already heen given out in the newspapers, but there is a feeling that the project will be carried through to successful completion and if so It will be a great thing- for a mineral district which just now has great promise. There are quite a number of active properties in the districts named and it is probably not exaggerating to say that the new road would have in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of a dozen producing - mines to draw from right at the start, with the prospects of many more, as better facilities facili-ties for marketing the ore would mean a large amount of work on claims which are not now being worked. A thirty mile wagon haul is a very serious handicap to any mining district and especially one which is producing only an average grade of ore. The extension ex-tension of the railroad into the West Tin tip and Erickson mining districts, it in believed, would mean a boom similar to 1 he one which has brought the Deep Creek sect ion into the limelight during the past year. Provo and fait Lake mining and business busi-ness men are paid to be back of the proposed ra ilroad. |