Show LEINER SENDING OUT ORE ore from this erickson dis brict mine is to be loaded on cassat lucerne other mines a are re quite active at present B F fleaner who was in camp again this week from the erickson hining district where he Is engaged in the development of mineral ground which he has held for many years states that ore hauling has started at the utah zinc mining corn COM pany s property this company now owns claims which mr fletner cocat ed a score or more years ago and which have great promise some two years ago mr air fleiner organized the utah zinc mining company and for more than a year ear he has been busy with the development 0 of the ground on which there is now a very fine showing of lead silver ore one carload of this ore was shipped sev eral oral months ago and when mr air flet ner put the teams to work late last week there was enough ore sacked aw awaiting alting shipment to load two or three railroad cars this ore must be hauled by team tor for a distance of about thirty miles the loading station being lucerne on the delta branch of the salt lake route the cost of the wagon haul is about 7 60 50 per ton but the ore Is of excellent grade carrying about 40 per cent lead and there should be a profit in its shipment even at this time when lead Is not bringing a very fancy price this ore Is also a desirable grade tor for smelting as vs it contains some iron and no silica mr fletner says that there Is also a shipment ship nent or two of ore on the happy jack claims which he owns in partnership with phil dark clark and jackson C mcchrystal both of salt lake city mr fleiner fletner Is also in te rested in a manganese deposit i from which teams will soon be haul ing ore this property has been leased to price mccarthy mccarth y and but ler who are also operating another manganese lease at Ilo mansville that deposit being owned by the chief consolidated mining company the manganese deposit in the erick son district is said to be one of the best in the entire state the ore has been opened near the surface for beveral several hundred feet and at one place it has been followed to a depth of more than feet showing that the ore body Is large enough to in sure a big tonnage the parties who have a lease on this ground are ship ping the ore to pittsburg the freight rate being about 16 per ton and this added to the charge for the wa gon haul makes the transportation charges about 23 50 per ton on the way to eureka mr fleaner stopped over at the property of the esert mountain mining company where new equipment equip men has been in that stalled he ile says thai this property Is now splendidly equipped for an extensive campaign of work salt lake people among them W mont ferry J A turner control the desert mountain |