Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-08-07 | Page 9 | Mining News

MINING LEAD KING COMPANY ,. , A SELLING RICH ORE Salt Lake Ag. 3. The many Salt Lake shareholders of the Lead King Mining company will be pleased to earn that a car of ore has reached the local Braelters which is just about as high grade as anything a mine could produce and still be justified in terming the product ore This shin-racnt shin-racnt is lead or0 and the assays show that it will carry between seventy- i two and-sevonty-three per lent lead I The ore contains in addition somo silver sil-ver values, somewhat less than three ounces to the ton. Tho present shipment ship-ment consists of forty-two tons more of tho same character of ore has been extracted and awaits shipment while the management continually is taking out like ore for the market. The Lead King property was acquired ac-quired by well-known Utah interests at about tho time of the first great Impetus to the. Ely copper district The mine Is situated just above the Steptoe smelter at McGill, New, the company having the advantage of a downhill pull on Its mine product. The lower tunnel is In about 720 feet, and in this tunnel, and at a point about 600 feet from daylight, the management manage-ment has started raising to connect with the ores devaloped above In the earlier period of the mine's development. de-velopment. So conditions are decidedly decid-edly favorable for tho company having hav-ing a generous tonnage of this Bplen-did Bplen-did gratifying that tho shipments are bieng made when lead is at the highest high-est point of the year. It is not often that car lots of crude lead ore reach the Salt Lake smelters smel-ters carrying approximately three-fourths three-fourths solid metal, but this sort of ore has been typical of the Lead King property all along.