Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-04 | Page 14 | Columbus-Rexall Resumes Shipping

COLUMBUS-REXALL RESUMES SHIPPING Sine Teams WorJdng; Ore to Es Loaded at Wasatch Tem- porarily. After a delay of several weeks because of bad road in Little Cottonwood canyon, shipments were resumed yesterday from Colum ous-Rexall. Nine teams went up .The canyon yesterday and it is expected that nine to twelve teams will be kept ;at work regularly. Pending receipt of Director General McAdoo's permission to build the pro-i pro-i posed siding to serve Rexail at the mouth : of trie canyon, Manager M. R. Evans has arranged for loading room at Wasatch. ' The arrangement for loading space a t Wasatch will be In effect for trie nekt . thirty days at least. There are now approximately 600 tons of ore broken .at Rexall and ready to ' move. Manager Kvans plans to move the ore to Wasatch at the rate of about forty tons a day. Suffkiient ore h;LS been developed de-veloped in the mine to keep shipments moving at the rate of forty tons a day for an Indefinite period. While no new de-. eloprnen ts have been 'i reported at the property recently, the ore in l.I the faces Is understood to be hold-' hold-' ing up well, both In values and quantity. ! T'jzrf-rX assays of lots comprising a dozen ! to fifteen mine ears has averaged be-. be-. tween S55 and ?t a ton. The contract j hr-s been let for extending the tunnel and work was to have been started yesterday.