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Show ; 1G1H0UISE " RESPONDS RAPIDLY Property That Is Neighbor of Prince Con. Is Finding Find-ing Favor. 1 tlC CULTOIit i.S.SUQ of llu; I'ilJf'llC (Xev.) Record appears an ex it: nded ac-eownt ac-eownt of new development at tiie pfop-erty pfop-erty known as the Virginia j,oljIh', a mine , that in locate J contiguous to i'ie 1': Sm e ConsolMalcii, v.hleii Is operaie.l by ihe Godbe interests mil their S:dt Lake as-noeiales. as-noeiales. In part the I'.ueurd's arliele says: ".Sinee tlie resumption t( operations by the Vlrk'lnia-LouiM! Mining '.ump;my I'.vo inontliK tiKo, inii'-h work has neen done and many lIkui'H o f L-- J at tii.it i propeny, holli on the Mirl'aie and iiiider- ' K round. 'I' lie mom irnpurtii nt ennstme- 1 tlon work h;ia been the Kradini? of a 1000- , " foot railroad spur, coiiiie-jtlnj,' with the I'rlnoii railroad, wiiieh euahles ore siiip-menl.H siiip-menl.H to bo made directly from the nunc by rail. An Inclined tramway eonneetltii; j the receiving bin at the collar of the hhafl with the inn-ton loading- bin on i thn railroad .spur farili laten the h:in- dllns of the ore on the .surf are. The new buildings erected comprl.se an office and warehouse, a miner.s' chanKO hou.":, ; an ollhou.se, two hu nk iiounen and a hii- i perhiU'ndent'H reHkirnee. while the new I equipment added includes a full eomple- merit, with drill sharpener and oil forge, ; an air compressor, an electric lighting i unit, sample grinding eipiipment anil sundry otiier small ai-ces.sories. "Underground, capacious ore pockets have been excavated on three levels, two I new level stations have, been -ut and j over 1 do feet of development work has boen accomplished. To dale ninety-five . ! carloads of ore. moat of winch lias been j broken In development work, have been shipped to the United States H. It. & At. j company smelter at Salt J.ake. "In conation with all western mines during the past year, the development work at this property has been greatly hampered hy a shortage of labor, high cost of supplies, slow delivery of equipment equip-ment and, last but not least, the influenza influ-enza epidemic. "While it will he impossible to ni;ike a. deflnito appraisal of (he value of this new ore body until further development work haa been accomplished, a tentative estimate, based upon the results of mining min-ing in the adjoining Davidson claim, where this ore body haa for some time been contributing a large proportion of the current production of the l'rince mine, . leads to the conclusion that' it will increase previous estimates of the Virginia-Louise ore reserves by between C5 and 00 per cent, and that the quality of the ore will equal or surpass that of any previously known ore body." |