Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 36 | Peruvian Mining Steadily Shipping

PERUVIAN Iflli STEADOIPPI J. P. Clays, manager of the Perm ian Mining- company, which uwns larare holdings hold-ings In Peruvian gulch, Alta district, is clown from the mine, much pleased by the recent record of shipments and the present pres-ent ''showing at tbe property. He reports re-ports his company as now shipping bet-1 ter" than two cars of ore per week, the ore carrying a content of from 12 to 13 per cent lead, four ounces in silver and about $1.50 in gold per ton. As to the showing made by recent developments, de-velopments, Mr. Clays is quite enthusiastic. enthusi-astic. He said that the miners already had opened a fifteen-foot body of ore in one stope, a twenty-five-foot body in another an-other and a thirty-eight-foot body in a third stope. This ore is all of a grade equal to or better than that which is now being shipped. The location of the Peruvian company's com-pany's ground is regarded by expert mining min-ing men as being extremely favorable for the development of a. big and profitable ! property- It holds 4500 feet along the 1 famous Cardiff contact and only & few j days ago began the exploration of an outcrop on this contact where ore that carried 5150 per ton in lead and silver was encountered. Transportation difficulties, said Mr. Clays, have interfered to a largs extent j with a regular and desired output from the Peruvian, but it is hoped to over- come this at an early date Negotiation? i are now under way for the ere Lion o: ' a tram from the Little Cottonwood Transportation Trans-portation company's station. This will eliminate a team haul that will effec; a saving of ?3.7o per ton and at the same time given the Peruvian company oppor- tunity to increase its output to a figure double or better the shipments made thus far during the season.