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Show filRODX HAS CLOSED CONTRACT WITH THE NEVADA NORTHERN The Glroui Consolidated hear In be fore the Interstate commerce corn mission, which waa to hav taken place at Du- j Itith. waa submitted to a referee. It will not corrie up to the commission until the derision Is handed down affect Inn: tnter-mountaln tnter-mountaln railroad rates. When this ts done It may not be necessary to preaent the raae to the commission, as Its decision In the other case may pave the way for a settlement between the Olroux people and the Nevada Northern railroad In the controvert over rate to be charged on ore hauling and bringing In mine equipment. equip-ment. The Nevada Northern haa nullt Its tracks up to the Glroux mine, snd It na been understood that It .rould be the carrier of the ores that vara to N sent to the International smelHng ptattt i Tooele, It seems that an agreement haa been reached rejra rdlng t ho na u In ce of ores from the mine, and :t Is expected that shipments will he started from the mine within a few months. With referent refer-ent to this an eaatern paper has the following to say: I "With a clause flailing for minim i.n 1 tonnage of sort tons of ore dally, the Olroux Consolidated Mines company has made a contract, understood ;o be for nn year, with the Nevada Northern Hall rnodj"wnpoffv"ee-ejewrtnryFfr"nv W eodn Consolidated fop per company) for haul Ing lis product. TThls would Indicate that the Olroux management, after having h.id cmtro of this projterty for several year-, raa finally final-ly decided to com men cs production. "No attempt has ever been made by the Cole-Ryan management to crert a plant with siiffU'lent capacity to handle a substantial sub-stantial ore tonnage aa the reserves In sight and otherwise believed to ex lit have probably not reached the mark which the engineers considered sufficient to warrant war-rant the neceftary expend'lure. "The same Interests control the Tooele smelter of the Internal! nat Smelting and Hell n Ing company and that plant will handle han-dle Otmux ores until some determination has been reached by Olroux management regarding a plant of Its own. I "!eve!opment work at 3iroux hss now been centered for some time on the 1400-foot 1400-foot croascit. but thus far nothing of Importance, Im-portance, has been discovered aa only stringers of ore have been f-und. "Between the 1200 and 1 h lev el w. however, how-ever, there Is declared by friends of the company to be sufficient or to supply froa tons dally for a year at .oasu |