Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-06-05 | Page 2 | D. & R. G. Employes Mine to Ship Ore Soon, Official Says

D. D R. R G. G Mine to Ship Ore Soon Official Says Financed to a large extent nt by at the local shops of or the Denver Rio Grande Railroad i Ic company the the SlIver Silver Hills Mining company in the Bl Black c Pipe Pine mining min min- ing district in in c Cassia county 0 Ida Ida- 1 ho will begin the shipping of ot ore orein in n about one month according to toW W J J. Burridge ur p president es d nt of Qt the company t The compan now nas nineteen Claims On nine original claims claim zinc appears on on the surface while commercial l ore is is' exposed A 1 cabin abin and anda a shop 1 have ve been built and a tunnel driven The tunnel I has been driven n ninety feet teet to to r reach ach a vein in which there are are showings of or gold and silver r. r On the other ten claims tak taken n over rec recently it Is that there are more than tons of ot lo low grade ore in sight According Ac Ac- r cording to Mr Burridge there is t gold silver I lead ad copper and zinc or r three feet of com com- lal ore running from 60 cents gold ounces silver 2 per cent copper 3 per cent lead and 6 cent zinc to the ton The company company com com- pany now proposes to drive a a tunnel 1 I and to ship ore I in a a month In addition it is proposed this d fan fall to build a concentrating mill 1 Supplies and eq equipment have haye beep been sent from Salt Lake to to thoroughly rw t work rl the property an Increased T force having been put to work iMore than S has has' been spent on the property A few ew years ears ago considerable ore ore was shipped from the property which the new company ny considers Ith proper development l pm nt will rank as as a big producer Mr Burridge is well known in Utah and and Nevada mining circles s In 1907 he was In charge of ot the j famous Annie Laurie mine in Se-f Se vier count county J