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Show MAY BUILD TUNGSTEN MILL IfJDEEP CREEK Shipments Resumed by Lost Cabin; Pole Star Finds High Grade Copper. SpeciaJ to The Tribune. GOLD HI-LL. March 30. E. F. Gordon and E. R. Boericke., mining engineers with the Prlmos Chemical company at Boulder, Colo., visited Gold Hill this week to inspect eome prospects containing tungsten ore and scouted the district in the interests of their company. They are expected to return in the nea-r future and devote more time to making a more thorough investigation of the tungsten possibilities of the district. An examination of the tungsten property prop-erty operated by the Tungstonia Mines companv at Tungstonia, Nev., known as the Shepard property, was made last week on behalf of the Primos Chemical companv. The property is over the hill from the holdings of the Salt Lake-Tungstonia Lake-Tungstonia Mining company, which is controlled by residents of Sa.lt Lake. If the Primes companv takes over the property prop-erty at Tungstonia it probably will erect a big mill to handle the ore. Ore carrying 50 per cent zinc is reported re-ported as being produced from the property prop-erty of the Trout Creek Mining company, in Trout Creek canyon, about forty miles south of Gold Hill and in the Deep Creek range. The ore occurs in limestone, and, while the vein is not large, it is said to be Deristent. Shipments of ore from the Lost Cabin mine of the Woodman company, which has been idle for a number of years, were resumed this week, when the first carload was sent to the smelter. The ore is a good grade of copper, the larger part of it coming from the same vein that is being be-ing worked in the Gold Hill-Tooele properly prop-erly that adjoins. The. Woodman company also shipped copper ore from the Frankie mine, where the average output is being maintained and a force of eight men employed. The recent disclosures of good copper ore in the Levee lease on the Napoleon company's property Is holding out well and promises to prove continuous for some distance. A considerable amount of ore is on the dump and a.nother carload car-load shipment will soon be made. Very fine high-grade copper ore, containing con-taining good values in silver, is being mined from a winze being sunk below the 336-foot level of the Victor shaft at the Pole Star mine. The ore shows gray copper and assays better than -0 per per cent of that metal, with silver at the proportion of two to three ounces for each per cent. The winze is beig sunk for prospeetig purposes, and when the continuity of the vein is established to some depth, sinking will be resumed in the shaft and another level driven to the vein about 100 feet deeper. Crosscutting to the west from the 336-foot 336-foot south level is being energetically pushed for the purpose of exploration, as several ore-bearing fissures of considerable consid-erable width are prominently exposed at the surface west of the shaft, and, as a vertical depth of 350 feet or more will be gained by the crosscut, some important impor-tant ore discoveries are anticipated. In new workings at the Monocco mine, copper ore of fine grade is being developed, devel-oped, while production Is being continued from the older workings and prospecting for extensions of the known ore bodies are under war. A carload shipment was made the first of the week and another car is being loaded. Albert Smith has obtained a lease on the Catherine group owned by Jack Hudson Hud-son and will begin work the first of the month. The property' is situated about three miles south of town, and some promising showings of copper ore have been opened. At the Western Utah Copper mine the working force has been increased to forty men, and general conditions are reported as giving more satisfaction to the management. man-agement. It Is understood that important impor-tant new discoveries of ore have been made in the deeper workings, though the mine management declines to confirm or deny the reports. However, it is known that under a new plan- of operation the propertv is being more systematically explored ex-plored than in the past and that results of greater importance are confidently expected ex-pected by all who are acquainted with the property. Production and shipments at present are. at the rate of one carload a day. After passing through somo extra hard limestone below the 200-foot level In the Mogul shaft of the Western LTtah Extension Exten-sion Copper company's mine, a series of open fissures was encountered and at about 225 feet another ore-hearing zone was entered. Tt is the Intention of the management to continue sinking until a considerably greater depth is gained before doing any lateral work, though stations were cut at 100 and 203 feet. More favorable conditions for finding ore in the south drift from No. 1 tunnel tun-nel are reported, while continued sinking in the winze Is proving Lhe ore persistent at depth in the Helmet vein. Drifts along the vein will probably run 100 feet below the tunnel level, which depth will be reached soon. A machine drill is in service in the winze, while the hoisting is performed by an Anaconda air-operated hoist, installed in a station on the opposite op-posite side of the tunnel from the winze. Murphy and associates have extracted sufficient copper ore from their lease on the Union claim of the Calaveras group to make a carload shipment, which probably prob-ably will bo sent to the smelter next week. |