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Show H GDODJGONDiTION Recent Developments at the Property Highly Pleasing to Management. According to an official statement issued yesterday from the local offices of the Michigan-Utah Consolidated Mines company, operating in the Alta Cottonwood distict, railroad traffic on. the Salt Lake & Alta railroad from Wasatch to Midvale is now regularly established, es-tablished, and the trains are making daily trips. It is now hoped to clean up the surplus of ore from Alta that has been dumped on the ground and platforms at Wasatch. The Michigan-Utah, Michigan-Utah, besides having about 200 tons at Wasatch, has something like 700 to 800 tons at Tanner's. The bins are full and there is a good deal of it piled orpine ground. It is hoped to clean up lfis surplus. In the meantime the tram-wav tram-wav is working all right and ore is coming down regularly from the mine to Tanner's. The teams are again very busr between Tanner's and Wasatch. The company just settled for six carloads car-loads of ore and' there are about twelve cars of high-grade in the smelter yards at Midvale. Underground conditions at the mine were never so good as now. In the Bobbins winze the ore actually blocked out is being increased every day. This ore is high in copper and silver, besides carrying lead and gold. In the Copper Prince tunnel, on Monday last, the company com-pany broke into a body of ore which looks good. Where first encountered it was a mass about three feet thick, five feet long on the face, but it seems to be increasing. This ore is a copper cop-per sulphide and carries silver and gold. An important fact should be noted in regard to transportation. The railroad has been completed between Wasatch and Tanner's Flat, and for the first lime in history it can be said that the Michigan-Utah has transportation other than wagon hauling from its mine to the smelter. It has four and one-half miles tramway from the Cleaves tunnel tun-nel to Tanner's Flat, a new railroad from Tanner's Flat to Wasatch, and, the Halt Lake & Alta railroad from Wasatch Wa-satch to Midvale. The management is justified in expecting a great year, especially with the present high prices of metals and otherwise favorable conditions, con-ditions, the most favorable of which is the splendid showing underground. People Peo-ple who have not been underground at the Michigan-Utah for the past three vears cannot understand the changed conditions for the better that now exist. |