Show around the state general manager W R elliott of the three ahree ii kegs ings 0 consolidated at park city reported tast last week that the shaft has passed the e buot point and is making satisfactory progress progress Rr ogress it has just passed through black time which ich is believed me wi to overhang a possible ible ore body manager S A parry of the cottonwood cotton wood ing mining company states that supplies ave been laid in at the companas comp anys prop arty in the dig big cottonwood section and that rork ork there will continue all winter the rinza from which ore is now being taken is to be sent to greater depth I 1 superintendent C J graft graff of the paloma j i gold silver mining company has a force of nine men engaged in the development of 1 the property located out from milford the 1 1700 level is being prospected at three points and a promising vein is being followed there high dhigh grade ore in sufficient quantities to I 1 pay operating expenses of the property is being taken from the level the announcement of the dividend of the utah metal tunnel company to be paid december and which was mentioned in these columns last issue states that after the payment of the dividend amounting to tho the company will have in its treasury in cash and metal on hand and accounts receivable the companas comp anys property at bingham is under the management of john F Ban chelle C S goddard manager for the dugway bertha mining company with holdings in the dugway district states that the company has a shaft down feet which has followed ore for feet and shows a threefoot vein in the bottom A new tunnel is in over seventy five feet and is approaching the ore this tunnel when driven into the mountain on the vein will give a depth of feet mr goddard expects to send out a shipment in the immediate future which he figures will carry 20 per cent copper shipment is made by way of faust the south hecla mining company operating at alta under the management of george H watson reports an important find in the east end of its property and at a point more than a mile from the workings from which a heavy tonnage has been snipped shipped during the past few years enormous low 0 grade deposits of ore have been opened in the east section of the property before but now a drift has followed a richer deposit for or a distance of sixty to seventy feet the ore being of good shipping grade and the dip of the bedding indicating backs of from 1000 to 1500 feet general manager george E hemphill of the dog bog mining company has returned to salt lake from an inspection of that property located in american fork canyon he says conditions at the mine are improve ing every dagand day and the management is much encouraged by the fact that the ore body on which we are now sinking a and from which we have received assays essays as high as a ton seems not only to be getting larger but values are increasing as depth is attained the company is preparing to run a lower tunnel which will cut the vein feet under the present workings stock of the tintic gintic drain tunnel company has been listed on the salt lake stock mining exchange jesse knight of provo is president and general manager and W L mangum is secretary treasurer there are shares half of which are in the treasury of a par value of 5 cents each the company at the time of listing also had in cash it owns twenty four patented and claims and acres of land at the mouth of the five mile tunnel which it is preparing to run from goshen valley under the tintic gintic district it also has valuable contracts with many of the big operating companies of the district by which it will receive a royalty upon all ore shipments from below the present water level should the tunnel drain their properties |