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Show SPUR TO IRON MINES RUSHED CEDAR CITT, June IS. Grading for the spur track being built to the Milner iron properties at Deseret Mound has begun in earnest and it is expected that the four-mile branch line will be completed before the middle of July. The line is being be-ing built by the Utah Iron Ore corporation, cor-poration, which has leased the Milner Mil-ner property and already has contracts con-tracts to furnish iron ore for fluxing purposes to several smelting companies. com-panies. Plans have been altered slightly since the first survey and the railroad rail-road tracks will terminate at the property at a lower level to allow the loading of trains by gravity. This also will permit the installation installa-tion of an ore crusher on the tipple, according to officials of the company com-pany and if it becomes necessary to crush the ore before shipping it can be done without handling the ore twice. The leasing company expects to begin shipping ore about August 1 at the rate of approximately 4(10 tons a day. The grading is complete for a mile and the steam shovel at the property;- is busy stripping the overhang over-hang from the ore body for ready access to the ore when shipments standard gunge track, the company start. Besides the four miles of will put in about a mile of narrow gunge track to facilitate hauling ore to the tipple. I |