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Show Mining Operations Being Pushed in the Star District Operations in. the silver-lead district dis-trict adjacent to Milford show a steady increase, according to A. C. Nebeker, who is superintending development de-velopment of the Magnolia lease, situated sit-uated in the Star district, one and a half miles southwest of the Moscow Leasers at various properties are getting out a good tonnage and netting net-ting a good profit. New work has been started at the Montreal group in the Rocky district, five miles north west of Milford, where, from glory hole operations, a tonnage of flux ore is being mined. Driving of a 500-foot 500-foot tunnel has been started in the Croft' mine in the Lincoln district. Sinking has been stopped at the Magnolia property to prospect u main northwest-southwest fissure tra versing the; estate, :vlr. Nebeker reported. re-ported. Originally the company intended in-tended to put the shaft down to a greater depth, but promising mineralization miner-alization struck on the 300 level has caused officials to change the plan of development. Width of the fissure has increaseu consistently with depth. On the 50-foot 50-foot level the vein showed a width varying from eight to eighteen inches. inch-es. On the 13 5 level it measured eighteen inches. On the 200 level, where exposed in the drifting donu both ways along the strike of the fissure, fis-sure, the vein averages twelve feet in width. Samples of ore showing in tha twelve feet of vein matter range lii values from $1.20 to $6 a ton in gold 11 to 13 ounces in silver, 7 to 21 per cent lead, and 25 to 32 per cone iron. Drifting will be continued to explore thet intersection of the vein with a number of highly mineralized crossbreaks showing on the surface. Output of the Moscow mine is hold ing uli weill, according to Mr. Nebeker. Nebe-ker. Six teams are hauling. Output is averaging about 250 tons weekly and values from $800 to $1200 a carload. The drift along the fissure between the 800 and 1100 level is following follow-ing a strong exposure of ore. The contact drift on the 1100 searching for the downward continuation of thu shoot, has come into a higher miuor-alized miuor-alized matter that is believed to indicate; in-dicate; the nearness of the objective. a |