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Show FOURTEEN IN NOW EMPLOYjM APEX Eighth Car of Ore Since Operations Opera-tions Begun Last September Will Soon Be Shipped Eleven miners are now employed at the Apex mine and three men are working on the new road leading lead-ing from the end of the present road to the mine. In the past it has been necessary to sled the ore from the sorting bin to the trucks waiting below, but with the completion of a quarter of a mile of new road this inconvenience will be eliminated. According to Sherman Hardy, local lo-cal manager for the company, seven sev-en cars of ore, averaging more than forty tons to the car, have been shipped during the past six months. Returns have averaged 28 to 31.8 per cent copper. A good start has been made toward the eighth carload, there now being over fifteen tons of ore in Cedar City awaiting shipment. The compressor which operates a hoist lifting the ore from, the bot tom of the mine 150 feet upward by air, -will be started soon, according ac-cording to Mr. Hardy. W. H. Hendrickson, superintendent superintend-ent of the company operating the Apex, came in last -week from Mil-ford Mil-ford and after spending Friday at the mine, left for his home well pleased with the outlook here. . |