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Show TRACTION ENGINES FOR PIOCHE CAMP. Sale Lake City, May 27. Traction engines for tho hauling of the Increasing Increas-ing supply of, ore irora the Pioche camp Is the latest. The coming producers pro-ducers of" that camp have for somo time been unable to get teams and especially on the Prince Consolidated ilf " of the camp. The lack of animals wlt.i which to handle the loads has held things back for some time and now it U understood that a number of the mining companies are figuring on putting in traction engines for the care of their products. It is knosn that the Prince Consolidated Consoli-dated contemplates putting on a traction trac-tion engine with a train of ore wagons at an early date. Several other mine owners, who wish to shop at once, arc also getting estimates on hauling machinery. ma-chinery. At the present time the camp is shipping out twentj-five cars or rich ore each week. Within the next three months this amount will be more than doubled. For this reason It has been found necessary to get some means of handling the situation without giving giv-ing long contracts to teamsters for the hauling of ore. The Prince Consolidated now has another car of rich ore on the road to the United States smelter. It is declared de-clared that it Is richer than an thing that has yet come from the Prince properly. There is a possibility, although faint, that tho Interests in control of the Ohio-Kentucky and the( Nevada-Utah Nevada-Utah properties will get together. ! Both are at present In the Pioche camp, although no arrangement was made for the meeting. On the same train that left for Pioche Pi-oche Tuesday night were George A. Learned, president of the Nevada-Utah, Nevada-Utah, and C. H. Bergen, treasurer of the same company; Colonel James L. Hackett, one of the stockholders and a director, and A. H. Godbc, president and general manager of the Prince Consolidated. Although negotiations for a consolidation consoli-dation of the properties in Pioche were broken off several weeks, ago, it is possible that the parties may again get together. If it should prove true It will mean one of the biggest deals made in Pioche in a long time I and will do more towards making thi3 - 1, ..U..M UMJ I'llU JACia ilUl I pened In years. |