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Show Depth MONITORMINE IS SOLD CHEAP Beaver County Mines Show Better Values At -.Depth VALUES GO DEEP BUT MINERS HAVE NOT BUT WILL Paul Kimball, A. P. McCulley and the McKeon interests of Milford have sold the Monitor mine for a consideration of about $30,000, it is claimed. The Monitor has proven ..to be an excellent low grade proposi- tion carrying good gold and sil- ver values. Properly developed it should pay handsome re- turns. A Salt Lake Journal has the following good word to say of this mine and of the Beaver county mining section in gen- ..eral: Control of the Monitor Mining Company in the Star district, Beaver county, has been purchased by Joseph Pingree of Salt Lake and D. L. Evans of Idaho. This deal is probably prob-ably the forerunner of many similar transactions. The Beaver county camps have lived down the unwarranted unwar-ranted discredit cast upon them by the exploitation of the old Majestic company and disproved the superstition super-stition that the values don't "go down." The most conservative geologist ge-ologist will concede now that the Beaver mines have been misjudged and that the major part of their mineral min-eral resources are untouched. The Monitor is one of the oldest locations in the State. It lies above the Moscow and on the same mineral zone. The ore carries silver, gold and lead. Although the grade is rather low.- the volume of ore is so near the surface, so large and so easily mined that it has paid handsome hand-some profits to lessees. Experts say that it can turn out two carloads a day with proper methods of mining. How the silly tradition that the ore does not go down in this part of the country originated I cannot say. Only at the Horn Silver had deep mining been attempted and the values val-ues there went down 1700 feet at least. Lately the Moscow and Pa-loma Pa-loma have found better values at 800 feet than were encountered nearer the surface. All the evidonce tends to prove that the values do go clown and that it is only the miners who have not gone down. Last Sunday I visited a new property prop-erty just over the Beaver county line in Iron county. It is called the "Calumet." "Cal-umet." Although it was located thirty years ago and has been operated oper-ated by many different outfits, It was considered a failure until last fall when the Mines Development company com-pany took hold of It and uncovered the vein. Nine carloads of lead ore were shipped by the Mines Development and the Calumet company has marketed mark-eted three cars. The roads have been too bad to do much hauling since Christmas, but we found them practically prac-tically dry. The Calumet's truck was harrowing the rough places when we were there and the opinion of the superintendent that he could begin hauling in a week seemed conservative. conserva-tive. A bedding of shipping ore ten to twelve feet thick Is exposed underlying under-lying a big rave 40x60 feet in size. On the level below the cave the west drift Is all in ore and has a 3-foot bedding of high grade making out to the north, east and west. We estimated esti-mated the ore In sight at 1600 to 2000 tons. There were 50 tons of first-class ore In the bins ready for hauling. When a mine such as the Calumet is proving Itself to be Is neglected for thirty years one may feel certain that the country has not been given even a preliminary hearing on the charge of shallowness. Some real deep mining will revolutionize the popular conception of the resources of the region and will, in my Judgment, Judg-ment, put Beaver county on par with Tintlc, Park City and Bingham in a mining way. Murray Schick, In The Outlook. |