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Show i FIRST CAR ORE OVER MOAPA LINE, Salt Lake, April 11. With the object ob-ject of testing Its second class ores, "a carload of fifty tons, which will average aver-age from fifteen to twenty per cent copper, was shipped from St Thomas last Saturday by the Grand Gulch Mining company. The branch line fiom Moapa, on tho Salt Lake Route, to St Thomas, a distance of twent-fh'e twent-fh'e miles, was completed nnd the rails laid into the village only a few hours before, This was the first shipment of ore over the now lino. According to word which has just leached Manager W. P. Jennings of tho Grand Gulch company, trains should bo running regularly over tho branch on and after April la The mine is located forty-live mllos easterly from St Thomas. Tho forco there was recontly incroascd to about fifteen men, and directly this will be augumented ngol. especially if this fest shipment of the second class ores proves to the company that it mav be marketed profitably. It so, the company has between 2.000 and 3,00 tons of H on tho dumps for m-mediate m-mediate transportation. The arrival of the railroad into St Thomas necessitates neces-sitates a readjustment of tho old seventy-mile wagon haul nnd other rates which have been In voguo for yCFi?st class ores from the Grand Gulch mine average from thirty to fhlrtv-sl nor cent copper. The In-tntlo. In-tntlo. is o put men to work on the I high grade as well as the low grades If this initial shipment proves a suc-iei suc-iei The ore goes to the Garfield smelter. With local copper settle- ments close to 1G cents a pound, tho second class Is worth about $45 a ton and the first class runs hotter than $90 gross a ton. |