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Show STAMPEDE AND CROFT SOON TO SHIP There are promised two new shippers ship-pers for Beaver county in the near future, and R. H. Strickland, well known mine operator, is lining up hauling outfits for the old Lincoln district. He and associates, owners of the Stampede, have secured a $100,000 bond and lease on the adjoining ad-joining Croft and the two are to at once resume, production. Relative to the newest developments develop-ments in the Stampede, Mr. Strickland Strick-land 6ays that on the 300-foot level an ore shoot has been opened up for thirty feet. The ore is three to four feet in width. The zinc and the lead cleave to the two different walls, and it is no trouble to sort two first-class grades. The zinc averaged near 45 per cent and the lead runs about 40 to 45 per cent. The last car shipped from the Stampede carried 65 per cent lead. The ore here makes in a cross fissure. fis-sure. These fissures have an east-west east-west strike, while the main fissures make with the limestone and have a north-south strike. At the adjoining Croft mine there is an incline now down 130 feet. Here a zinc body somewhat similar to that in the Stampede Is being developed. de-veloped. This is approximately 600 feet from the other ore, but in the same system of east-west Assuring and cutting across the limestone. These properties are located sixteen six-teen miles east from Mllford, the nearest railroad point, with a good wagon road. It is expected to have the ore moving to market within a very few days. A force of ten men is employed at present. |