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Show FORTUNA MINES TO MAKE BIG SHIPMENT OF HIGH GRADE ORE Ore reported to run as high as $500 a ton in gold is being mined and sacked sack-ed 'for shipment from the Beaver county properties of the Utah Gold Mining company, at Fortuna according accord-ing to report received at this office. It is said that one picked sample from the ore vein ran as high as $3500 a ton. The high grade gold ore is said to come from a vein about 14 inches wide, which makes down in the .".ide of the old Davis stope. As the ore is broken it is being sacked .officials of the company say, and it was reported this week that 100 sacks of this ore are on hand. The mine crew is preparing diligently dili-gently for its winter's work. Two cabins for living quarters and an assay as-say office are occupied. The latest addition to the camp is a crusher and pulverizer installed in connection with the sorting house. This machinery ma-chinery will prepare the ore for screening and assaying. The site of the old Fortuna camp i is fourteen mines north of Beaver and only a short distance off of the !U highway. Owing to its favorable . location work may be continued throughout the winter, with a good highway for trucking the ore to the smelter. |