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Show Star Mining Dist. j Is Coming to the Front Says Survey; i vKUKKEll WOKK1XU STAR DISTRICT MINK NEAR MILFORD; i C. Nebeker, who superintended; operations at a number of Tintic properties, among them the Zuum. and Little May, is now giving quite a lot of attention to the development of the Magnolia Lead mine near Mil-lord Mil-lord in Beaver county. He was en-aged en-aged in mining in that district be ore coming to Tintic and while there secured control of the Magnolia Lean which is now being financed for a Development De-velopment campaign, says the Eur., ka Reporter. Recent developments in the. Moscow Mos-cow mine, which started a small boom around Milford, has caused u flood of activity that promises to acing the Star district into line a. one of the leading producing districts of the state, ranking next to the a major districts Bingham, Tintic and Park City. According to Mr. Nebeker, there is a string of ore wagons coming into Milford all day long. The Moscow mine is shipping around 40 tons of high grade lead carbonate silver or. or three cars every two days. Tti production is not keeping up wiUi the ore development, he states. Tut Wild Bill has a new ore strike on the 400 level, he. says, and has apparently apparent-ly run into the big vein on the TOO level. The Magnolia Lead, Mr. Nebeke. says, is getting into shape for production. pro-duction. The major northeast miner station zone in the district passes through this property. The management manage-ment is now drifting in ore while sinking is going on. Mineral Survey. ITAH PREMIER SINK NEW SHAFT IN STAR DISTRICT Mining in the Star district, near Milford, is on the upward trend and some very important undertakings are scheduled for the near future according ac-cording to latest reports from that section. The Utah Premier Mining company com-pany has decided to sink a shaft on the Maud S. claim, approximately 150 'eet from the prospect shaft from 'hich ore is now being shipped. It is understood that a contract has been ie' to sink the new shaft to a deptfc ! 200 feet. Two forty-ton carloads have been 'hipped recently by the company, according ac-cording to F. O. McFall, who is in carge of operations. This ore will Jssay about 45 per cent lead and 50 "nnces of silver to the. ton. The min-eril. min-eril. a carbonate, has a high lime and "on content which makes it an extent ex-tent smelting product. The Maud S. ore body, being ex P'oited by the company is one of the st unusual strikes made In Utah tor years. Discovered last summer by ;l miner who pulled up a sage brush 10 start a fire, the ore body has. pruned pru-ned from grassroots1 to a depth of '-ighty feet and from a total of seven-y seven-y eet of drifting about $15,000 ''Mom any stopping. The ore lies on a porphyry lime to"e contact associated with a num-'r num-'r of caves that open out from a thwest northeast fissure. The co '"y is now drifting on two levels. ' e 'orty and eighty foot levels. f 0n the forty foot level a deposit frying about 50 per cent lead has 511 opened up for fifteen feet along e contact. Width of the ore meases meas-es about twelve feet. , n th-e eighty-two foot level fort 0 fwt of drifting has been done ititr the fissure- The face ot UliR K just breaking into the side ot luat measures about sdxty feed "Sand ten to fifteen feet wide. The! 'loor nr t 1 ritb. CaVe iS SaicI t0 be covere" i . a high grade carbonate ore that; halt 8011 U an be shovelecl "P- Ab0llt ' the face is high grade- ore, con-lnS con-lnS some remarkable bunches oi Jtu'e copper. ' hln aS mini"S from the cave( t,Mo. beeun Mr. McFall is of tiic-J The 0,1 that outl)ut can ue increas-euj Conpany has at present about '" and on the dump The new shaft will be sunk in tn,-''es.one tn,-''es.one hanging wall ,o the 100 oot level, where drifting win be be en. In the meantime, the compenv Plans to maintain production from the prospect shaft. Mineral Survey. |