Show MOAPA 1 LINE OPEN three carloads of second grade ores from grand gulch mining com company panya a raging foraging To from 16 to 20 per cent in opper havo have already been haul ad over tho the new branch line from st thomas to cospa moapa from which point it comes in over tho the salt Suit lake route to the salt lake market three more cars of ore ore are now at st thomas thomae awaiting transportation while a dozen oo oe o 00 o e hauling teams teama ore are plying between the alie mino mine and st thomas IL distance of 0 thirty five miles where they aro are reducing dumps of tore told of com commercial marcial grades this is the report which W P Jon Jonn inge general manager of 0 the company brings up from the south after spending some borne time tima at the property the last car settled for showed cent copper and brought about 10 a ton or 2000 tor for a fifty ton car ten tan six horsa teems are on the road now they average from four to fiva tons tona to the load mr jennings Jonn ings said yesterday As soon as regular service is ia inaugurated over the branch we expect to increase the force and correspondingly the tonnage shipped chipped at present only the work trains are operating opa rating over tho the line and we get cars when possible and get them packed up aud hauled to mo io spa apa at irregular times How however evor soon BOOD the hot months of july and august will wil I 1 be Q onto us when it is hard on the freigh ere era and tonnage will be light until about september when we will make an effort to hurry to market the forty brt y or fifty tifty cars care of oom commercial I 1 mercial ora OM now on c our ur dumps at the grand Grana gulov brig whilmore Whit onora to ia pushing develops develop anent work on his hia capper property 25 miles east 0 of st john and about that distance from the francl gulch mine he expect to begin shipping be tore fore long he lies has already 20 to 30 per cent copper with a little silver ilia his ore is somewhat similar to that of the ibe grand gulch high brodo which runs from 30 to 36 per cent but values at the whitmore Whit moro are found principally in the sulphides sulp hides RAILROAD DAY PLANNED mr jennings says the people of stthomas and ovelton are arranging for A grand railroad city diy for june 7 and 8 it will be made two bis big days of festivities to which tho the settlers for miles around will attend will be large crowds f from om las vagas salt lake and other distant cities it ii is thought that several olee sleepers pers und and a diner wilt will bo be chartered arg from T this city by people interested in lands in the muddy valley country republican |