Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 37 | Michigan-Utah's Output Increasing

ICII-OTf S OUTPUT INCREASING Average of Three Cars Per Day Is Reported From Property. According to a statement issued yesterday yes-terday by the management of the Michi-gun-Utah Consolidated Mines company, the shipments from that Alta property during the past week have averaged about three cars per day. Another high-grade car, which should go more than $1000, is ready to ship and will go down within the next three days, " The company is also preparing to ship a carload from the Patsy Marly. A small tram has been put in on the Patsy Marly to handle the ore stoped out. Over in the Solitude the- company has been doing1 some development work on Us own account in the past month. Some high-grade silver-lead ore was struck last week. Not much can be said about this strike yet, except that it looks very good. The ore was encountered in the raise put up for the purpose of encountering? a shoot of ore that was struck on "the Cleave's tunnel, going east last ear Should this develop as1 expected "there will be fully 200 feet of backs. In the Lavinia tunnel south drift, the jeround never before looked so good as it does today. This is the point from which the company has , been shipping hi gh -grade ore heretof ore referred to i n previous reports. ..Two cars of , manganese have been mined from the new strike; no doubt one of them will be closed out during the coming week, when the exact values will be ascertained. It is known, however, that the results will be quite satisfactory. The Triangle Mining company and the Pioneer leasing compajiy are busy shipping ship-ping ore from their respective leases.. . Underground developments in every part of the mine where work is going on never looked better than at prese-m-i