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Show OPENING OF RAILROAD. On Thursday Ophlr fittingly celebrated cele-brated the opening of the St. John & Ophir railroad with a carnival of sport and a day of general festivity The town officials and citizens bent every effort to make the occasion memorable memor-able and to show tho camp In Its most favorable light to the many visitors from all over the state. While this was the formal opening of tho rail- I road, in fact, it has been actively operated for a week, several carln"Js iH of ore being shipped daily. The Opliir H Hill Consolidated Mining company is H i shipping two cars of concentrates each H . day. from stock-pile, the Cliff Mining H company one car of crude ore, while H the Lion Hill Con. Mining company H is making a shipment of high-grade H , silver ore. M i The addition to the Ophir Hill mill H which is rapidly nearing completion K will enable the company practically H to double the former tonnage, and H numerous improvements in equipment H throughout the plant will also permit H a greater saving in milling. These H advantages with the perfect shipping H facilities should mark the beginning H of a new era in the history of the H Ophir vHill mine and in the history H of Ophir. In consequence the re- H opening of this property will mean the H probable influx of 200 miners and B, millmen into the camp. H Other mines in the Ophir mining Hi district, principally the Cliff and Lion H, Hill Con. are in splendid shape, and Hi are now crowding the new carrier with H their products. The old Jim Fiske Hii property, long inactive, will shortly be H; taken over by new management, it is H stated on good authority, while leas H1 ors are now engaged in moving the H: I tailings of a former mill-run. |
