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Show LOST CABIN WILL 1KB SHAFT GOLD HILL., May 4. Work of sinking a shaft on the vein recently opened in the Lost Cabin claim of the Woodman Mining Min-ing company was begun this week with two men employed. The company has extracted about 100 tons of ore from an open cut in which the ore was six to eight feet wide, and 'where the shaft was started six feet of ore was exposed. The vein was first opened higher up the hill, about 150 feet from the site of the new shaft, not far from the south side line. The ore averages around 9 per cent copper, cop-per, with some gold and silver, and shows promise of being persistent to depth. At the Frank.! e mine of the Woodman company the recent strike of high-grade ore in the stope is proving continuous, and the production coming from that working is above the average in grade. A raise is being put through from the tunnel level to the stope, the raise being made in the ore recently opened in a drift southeast from the tunnel. When the raise is completed the output can be handled more economically, as well as be increased. Sufficient ore to load two railroad cars has been extracted and piled on the dump at the Frankie, but it has been impossible impos-sible to secure teams to have the ore hauled. By the time this can be done the company will have at least three carloads car-loads to follow each other in quick succession. suc-cession. S. F. Snyder, who recently resigned as superintendent for the Western Utah Extension Ex-tension Copper company, has taken a lease and bond on the Quincy group of about six claims, situated about one and a half miles south of town. The property prop-erty is owned by S. A., Sam and A. J. Hudson, and has some of the most promising prom-ising showings of copper ore that are to be found in the district. The Quincy group joins the Frankie mine of the Woodman company on the west, and one of the main ore-bearing veins of the Frankie extends from that property into one of the claims of the Quincy group. , It is the opinion of many miners and mining men familiar with both properties that a mine bigger than the Frankie can be developed in the Quincy, and the operations to be conducted by Snyder will shortly demonstrate the correctness cor-rectness of their theories, they believe. There are a number of places on the group where high-grade copper ore has been exposed practically at grass roots, and the property can quickly be put on a shipping basis. Mr. Snyder has been' in Salt Lake this week completing arrange-I arrange-I ments for financing operations, so details I of his plans are not obtainable. The deal, however, Is said to be one of the direct results of the remarkable discovery made in the Extension company's Helmet mine, by which the persistence of ore-bearing veins at depth in the grano-diortte has been demonstrated. |