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Show IIITlIlS Company Expects to Cut at! Depth Durock Vein; Ore Carries Good Values. District, in Which Many Famous Fa-mous Old Producers Are Situated, Active. Dovcloimu-ut work ol Liio "Monitor Milieu, .situiLtcd tv.olvo niHey hou thvost nf rilforfl, Bi;av:r cunLy, in the HLar iiihilnj.; .Jisl.riot, in approncliins .a very iniliot'Laiit stride, accoirliii Lj officials cf riio company who rctunict y os ten lay from a v JhU tt tnc propjily, I'liu faro of tins riuv aiit, 1m:'hs: driven tu fii; at ilfi'ch tiiu Uuru':lv viL-in, from Yhicli los;,c.js shined over v'i t.UUO of ore, hut flftyon fi..-ot from its objective. An fV'-ra: sjunplr, taken from the vein in j tho old UuroiiU workings. feeL above I the ii'.'W vorl:iiit4'-r snow an yt-Hay of 109.4 j otinec'9 of silver. .0 oid, and lead 34 pf-r cent. 1'icked .imples stiow ounce:-! of .silver, :;Z ii.t cent load, and cupper 1 per cent, it is said. I t :oiibiderable work lias been done in the pas! upon the Moniio;- property, ac-e;i'din ac-e;i'din to iM. J-. ScoIl, secretary of the company. From the old Alonilor vein, ivirich lies in the !inie, ore was mined profiLahly somfi years ao. Tins vein, iien fti'sL encuULiLcr.jd, was no wider tiian a iad pencil, hi a snort distance This yluwinu' opened up until there was from a t'uot to fourteen ir.clies of higli-Ki'aciu higli-Ki'aciu ore. Lessees Ship Ore. i-icy-seo;. who were working the; pro:. -erly at tne time, mined the vein in puch a careless nia.uner that the workings had to 1jj aba nd'ined. W ork was then be-tui1. be-tui1. liere irutKl snrfa.-e showings were to:uid. It was from tins adit, called the Inirocl:, thai the lessees shipped. Smelter Smel-ter roporU now filed in the records of the company show, it is said, that the n-'l rc'fipts from these shipments were MM. !H.:'f',. The pliysiei'l condition of the Durock ltd t, with i's tortuous windings, abrupt 'ticlineri. raises and winzes, was such tnat tii o company, wluai the lease I;ired, decided Lo run a new adit further down che hill to eni the vein at a vertical ver-tical deinli uf feet lower than the jv, est v. orking of the Durock tunnel. When operations in the Durock adit was abandoned, shipments from an 18-iuch vein of high-grade ore were interrupted rather than mine ore by an expensive and slow system At a disUuee of fifty-six feet from the portal of the. new adit, and at a vertical depth of thirty feet below the surface, a fissure four feet wide was cut, according accord-ing to iUr. SuoLt. At the top of the adit, the vein was four inches wide, and at the bottom eij;ht inches. An average sample ,uf the ore in this fissure shows iMi assav of thirty-five ounces of silver and SO per cent lead, it is said. AVhen the Durock vein has been cut, economical economi-cal development of this showing and prospecting of others will bo hegun. Star District Active. Tiie in hie is favorably situated for shipping to the smelter, according to Mr. Scott. The four-mile haul to the near-Col near-Col loading station, Lano, on the Salt L.i'ke route, is inexpensive. With economical eco-nomical mining, an inexpensive liaul and smelter charges which, because of the iron content of tho ore are merely nominal, nomi-nal, officials are optimistic iu regard to the future. Several smelter reports show charges as low as 54. SO for treatment on IT.OuO pounds. A large fart of the profits earned by the mine have been expended for adequate ade-quate equipment. Houses, a gas engine, compressor. machine drills, ore bins, equipment valued at $30,000. is owned by the company, it is said. D. h. Evans, president of the bank at Malad, is president pres-ident of the Monitor Mines company; V. M. Lrore. vice president; Joseph 1'iu-gt-ee. treasurer: M. Scott, secretary, and J. Li. Seolt. manager. Activity in the Star mining district is increasing. Tt is .rumored that a cou-s cou-s flirtation "f the Moscow. Commonwealth Common-wealth and the Red Warrior is pending. The Moscow has been a famous producer: pro-ducer: several millions of dollars' worth of re have been shipped from this mine. hit:ga.tion has made development of the propertv impractical, uncrations are being be-ing steadilv prosecuted at the Commonwealth Common-wealth mine. A recent shipment from V v Cold Crown is said to have netted |