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Show SUNSET SHIPMENTS ARE NOW INCREASING SALT LAKE, March 21 According to information received yesterday at the local offices of the Sunset Mining company, operating a big properly at Leadore, Idaho, there are now eleven cars of ore in transit. Storms that interfered with railroad transportation have postponed the delivery of some of these shipments, but conditions ai the mine are such that Alvin J. Smith, mine sunerintendent, expects, in view ot his last message to Nicholas Nicho-las G. Morgan, president of the company, com-pany, to be able to maintain an output of not less than ono car per day from this time on. The ore Is a lead-silver product and carries nn average value of about ?25 a ton. The, are many thousand tons of this grade in sight and blocked out, enough to insure the perpetuity of the Sunset as a paying mine for" a long 'inn to come. But this is not an that the Sunset has as an asBet. There are about 200,-UOU 200,-UOU tons of low grade lead oro. averaging aver-aging 8 per cent had, and with a view ot Investigating the tea.sibility of treating this vast amount on an ex- tensive scale, an officer of the company, com-pany, accompanied by an expert mill man, will leave today to make an Inspection In-spection of conditions and plan for the const motion of a big mill. Development work at the property Is being steadily pushed, says Superintendent Superin-tendent Smith. A drift is being run from the lower tunnel and it is expected ex-pected that thirty feet more of progress prog-ress will carry the miners to a body of high-grade silver ore. |