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Show NEW ENGLAND MINE CHANGES HANDS ! -Word was received here Thursday morning of the change of ownership j of the New England Mine, f The properties included are some i of the oldest in the Bingham Canyon S distrist with a record of several hun- i dred thousand dollars worth of ore I produced. I The New England consists of ap- I proximately eight claims, surrounded by the Utah Metals, Utah Deleware, i J (Highland Boy) United States Smelt-1 Smelt-1 ing and Utah Copper. The claims I bear silver-lead ore. The purchase I was made from Boston, (Mass.) in-jt in-jt te rests. j At present the New England com- paany is shipping between ten and 1 fifteen carloads of ore a month. The I company has settled an old litigation I and is reported to be soundly financed , ! and will carry on some rather ex tens' ten-s' ve development work which will i push up production. William F. Hay-I Hay-I den will be the consulting .engineer in charge of the development work, it f is stated. A force of about fifty men will be put to work on the property within the I next two weeks. The development campaign calls for sinking of the ' working shaft from the 550-foot level direct to the 680-foot level, the thor- ough renovation' of the underground . S workings of the mine, which has re- C cently been unwatered in order to Jj bring out the faces of ore that will be t available for working. $ The ore on the 680 level is from, 6 four to six feet' in width and a good ) grade of shipping ore, it is stated. ,1 In addition there will be a tunnel driven into the property to cut the j, 900-foot level to the east, which will not only develop the ore at that depth ? ' but drain the mine. t .1 There will also be constructed ad - ditlons to the boarding house, power s facilities and new imdne equipment in- stalled te meet the demands of the increased work. R. M. Hampton is i superintendent in charge of operations |