Show S Croff Revives Old Interest Interest Inter Inter- est The Important discovery of lead ore In the Croft Croff mine near is apt to renew the mining boom for county that hOe has been dormant dormant dor dor- mant for many years yearn Beaver county first came Into prominence during the early Sarly days when the Silver torn Horn was extracting an to have had s a value of almost The Caving In from the surface of or this great mine minO caused It to be shut down and U It has never been worked on a large seals scale since Samuel Newhouse was the next bl big operator fo to enter this field He lIe went Into it on a large scale locating the town of Newhouse and starting mining operations Operation on a mammoth scale Th The Stock in hi his company more than a decade ago waS one of the sensations Of Western mining and climbed up to almost 30 a ashare share when the big flop came He start start- ed Cd operations which h he claimed Would rival tIle the Utah Copper but ac according at cording to Information at that time after getting a large tonnage of concentrates concentrate the company declared a dividend but the metal market broke aol and the sale asIC of the concentrates was delayed The money for the dividend had been borrowed on the concentrates and the failure of their SAle started the downfall of this project Since then Bever county has been more mOOS or 01 less lea mining men although Ore showings stem seem to Warrant further developments In the various districts Of the county The croff Crof mine had been considered of much merit some years ago The Theore pre ore pinched out however and It was permitted to stay idle until list last year when a lesser leaser mining by hand extracted extract extract- ed approximately 40 from a shaft 2000 feet from the old old workings The TheOre Ore shoot at this place blace has nas considerable promise and the Croft Croff management levied an assessment and started a tun tun nd nel to cut beneath this ore shoot Through miscalculations the tunnel was round t to be more than feet feeL longer than first anticipated Recently ore was struck about fifty feet from the bottom of the shaft where the ore shoot worked by the leaser Is known to exist This Ore Is In a vein about seven feet wide and the clean ore is a foot and a halt half halfOn haltOn On each side of the vein Ore from one side of the vein samples 70 76 a S ton running better than 5 S In gold about 40 per cOot cent lead aId 10 ounces sliver Further development of this ore wilt will be watched with much eagerness by by- mining men And smelting officials It 14 IC believed to be a separate ore shoot from the oneat the bottom of the shaft and may be one Of or several strong ore shoots making into the orS ore shoot at the bottom Of the shaft which If true rosy may mean another large ore deposit of Considerable Importance The value o of zinc content of ores makes mining in the Beaver Deaver dia- dia less hazardous In the earlier days days' this zinc content caused penalties from smelters but now noOr the zinc In the ors ore brings a return The development of the tha Croft Croff will no doubt be followed by fur further thor ther developments in the district The Croff Crof owns the Cave Care property one of the rich producers Of the district Another r prospective property in the rd district that Is arousing some COons Interest 1 Is that of Magnolia Lead The property has been developed down dawn to the tha fOOt level and it Is expected that with witha a little further development it will Another for tills this district A A. contract has been let to sink the tha shaft to the foot level and new machinery Is Ia being Installed to replace the old and the summer should see some interesting developments at this property proPerly also s s |