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Show ORE MINED RAPIDLY AT ARCO PROPERTY -Mtliough development work was begun scarcelv two months ago. the Arco Mln-iw Mln-iw & 'Milling company now has about a cat-load of antimony ore on the dump ready for shipment, according to a letter let-ter received from the mine yesterday hy President ngus McKellar. Some prospect work had been done on the property when the companv was organized, hut very little lit-tle had been done to develop the ore body and considerable work was necessary to clean out the old workings. Five men are now at work on the pron-ertv pron-ertv driving the tunnel ahead and taking ore' 'from the- shaft. The tunnel is now in a distance of seventy feet and the shaft is down fifteen feet. The shipping ore now on the dump was taken from t he haft Some rather unusual samples ot antimony ore. taken from the property. ' have been received hy Mr. McKellar and Lire to he placed on display in halt Lake. econIing to the report, the snnwlall in the vicinirv of the property, which is near I rco Idaho, has been very light so far 1 this 'winter and the work has not been hampered to any extent. The roads are reported to be in good condition and it is expected that the first car of ore will be forwarded soon. |