Show 17 44 I 1 deep creek section can ship bi big tonnage Tonn afre of ore deep creek 1 erbar Is today ship ping a tonnage almost lual equal e to that of park cit waa was the declaration detla ration made the other day b a prominent operator of that drapl ralphb ll 11 gi awiz g manlig districts district i this statement is backed up by agures agures showing that in tl e past two weeks one mine the j N estern altah 1 tab cor per has sent to market arlet 5 carloads of ore these icara cars a wage average 33 35 to 40 tons each which would show a tonnage in that of approximately 2200 tons ii 11 addition to this mine the star is shipping the woodman s are moving some ore the clark dick of ferber is shipping plug reg regularly regil ilaray arly while the queen of sheba kimball min ing western mines development regent and others are preparing to move ores otes to the market in the near future mining ar wt tar arting ting up all over the entire district and two new camps camp have sprung up since the advent of the 4 ai mile railroad from to the norh north it la Is sched aled that passenger traffic over the deep creek railroad will commence april it Is also the plans to build a branch railroad from the frickson ranch twelve miles south westerly into ferber it Is declared the work will be started tie tle minute hat it is shown that the tonnage out of ferber will justify the ex pend iture the present quite exten sive work under way and operations j planned tor for the immediate future is said to practically imply that the branch will I 1 e put in before next winter it is officially announced that the western utah copper is now movin moving about 36 carloads of ore a week from its mine at gold hill this amounts to about 1400 tons a week the ore Is 1 averaging 5 per cent cop er or sly ounces and 20 to 25 in iron worth 30 to 36 35 a ton the mine la is estimated to have upwards of tons of thase shipping grates gra lea broken blocked out and pro bable j beani the polar star company has been doing some energetic development work since organizing a few months ago it has shipped some ore and is opening up the property pio perty for a heavier product production Jon the bamber ger woodman wilson bros hud sons and others in the vicinity of gold hill are attracting attention j I 1 erber Is livel lh camp j out at ferber a dozen miles west of gold hill new business houses cabins and tents are springing up like mushrooms of a night the ab sence of saloons at goodwin the gold hilt hill town is declared to be a drawing card for ferber which Is just across the line in nevada where stuff stronger than soda water will be on tap after august 1st the ferber mining company has been shipping regularly for several weeks the regent owned byr b delff ler palmer E M is said to have ha e a lot of lead silver ore on the dumps I 1 shipped several years ago the western mines development company was recently organized it has merged the big chief lied red cloud ajax and other ferber pro bertles and embraces eleven claims back of the company are edwin T jones harold R smoot frank A fisher D macvichie imer pett preston D richards and N A dun yon an old 65 toot foot shaft on oil the big chief has been loeen cleaned out it was sunk on a contact vein between the onUe and limestone ings recently made of the dump gave returns of 65 gross to the ton one assay showed 23 3 ounces silver and 28 4 per cent lead this Is said to be from a true six feet wide in places the lein is fourteen feet wide and the silver values practicum barly have an affinity for the adja cent limestone it is proposed to sink this shaft on down to a favorable point when the fissure will ill be crosscut and drifts sent out in both directions along the strike geologically and miner ferber Is declared to be ight right |