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Show ' TO COMUCT MILL " IT III CREEK Lead-silver Ores to Be Treated on Custom Basis; ' Big Tonnage Developed. 1 Sli.er-lOAd rem cn trues, as well shipments of hljrli-Knirie coppr ore, will be moving from the i-iimey Creek prop-nrty prop-nrty Wltola L)M mist sixty days if there, ts CO hl?eh in present p'.nns, aneorduitr to word brought in from tat; dlstrlet yes-te-r!iy by U J. Willis and tin. run h. Crosby, two of the directors of Uie. com-pany. com-pany. Copper shipment:! are now tx-ing made, and It Is nw-twl that the nw mill to treat tijo Muncy Creek lead-silver ore-s will he, In operation in thirty to forty Tlio min ts not owned by the Muney Oock company, but belun.TH to some ot fb nn who are bw.vlly interested in the. rronerty. An arrangement has teen mitdfi whereby trw lead-silver ores of the rrojpany. a lare;o tonnage of wi'.ieb las been developed, will be treated on a custom cus-tom bantu. The Muney Creek company ' Is evitendlnj; its water lines to care for the mm and Ik rarryinr on a vigorous cam-P1bii cam-P1bii of development. Some tinummlly promising bodies or oopper om have been clls.-Joswi recently, and considerable high-grade ore has been itf-cutrmlated on the dump awaiting movo-ment movo-ment to th i-.iltroai. Negotiations tre now under wav whicll aro expected to renult In a contract for the movement or the ore to the railroad by trucks The, company now control", two truclts and two trailers, and has been handling Its own ore, but on account of more or lees iroub'e Willi t lio power wagons it to' been decided to havo the haiumg done v... Tr u -vnecte3 that one oar of hlgh-grnde copper win leave Lay spur wdtiiin a rtav or two for the smelter. Tne laut or shipped by tbo company, about a month ago, carried values of a litt.e ' tx:ttor than S100 a ton. In developing the copper veins, big deposits de-posits of lead-nlvor ore nave been opened up. Until arrangements lor he mill wore corn pi 3 1 I'd. however, but little tovva.d fining L'i.i lea.l-sllver bsd been orm-Tlie orm-Tlie will hive, a capacity of 150 tous of erode oro a iw, and under t.ie asreo-mnnt asreo-mnnt roamed it Ls expected that as soon . the mill Is In operation the company will re.illr.e upward of $1000 a dny from the lead-silver ores. Mr Willis expects to return to his lu.me in Wyoming within the next day or two to look afler some business matters. When tbe.se have, been attended to, he plans, to return to the mine and devote his attention to the development of the property for the remainder of the summer sum-mer at least. |