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Show CF1DFF GF BEAVER SHIPPING GOOD ORE Smelter Returns of Last Car Show Net of $895 for the Fifty Tons. G. P. Norton, secretary of the Croff Mining company, the property of which Is located in Beaver county, adjacent to the Creole, said yesterday that smelter settlement settle-ment had just been received for the last car of fifty-tons sent from the mine. The ore carries gold, silver, lead and zinc, and despite the fact that the Croff company was allowed nothing for the zinc values the car netted $iy5. Further development work is now planned and the sinking of the main shaft another 100 feet to get under the ore which was opened above has already started. It is planned that at an early date work will be started on the copper claim wliieh lies immediately next to the Creole, Cre-ole, where some splendid showings have already been developed near the surface. R. R. Tanner is the president of the Croff company and both he and Secretary Norton consider the property one of the most meritorious prospects in the heavily-mineralized heavily-mineralized Beaver county eectlon. |