! MUCH ACTIVITY IN THyA SALS Winter's Campaign Will Be One of Great Importance to District. RICH PLACER WORKINGS , ARE BEING DEVELOPED Several Big Deals Have Been 9 Closed and Others Arc Pending. HHVj Special to Tho Tribune. H BASIN'. La Sal Mountain. Oct. 24. B Mining- matters In the cntlro 1a. Sal coun- H try .seem now to havo settled clown to Hl bunlness for winter oporatlons, find the B necessary preparations being mado Xor Hj I substantial and systematical dovelop- H mcnt work. Tho past season has beer. H I one of careful investigation and In oon- HR Fequenco some buslness-llko transactions H havo occurred, whereby what is to be B done now Is permanent and substantial. V Work on Pincers. H The Emmett-Butterwood placer cntcr- H prlco on Wilson mesa has been settled B and the money placed In bank for work H this winter. In a.iawer to a telegram, J. Ht R. Emmctt went to Grand Junction Inst H week to make the necessary arrangements H for machinery and supplies to carry on HB i the work this winter. On the flrot of No-vember No-vember a force of men will be employed J to hufld tho Mill Creek ditch, a dlstanco Hl of two miles to where they will begin H hydraulic operations near the Gardner H ranch. A largo grant has been purchused H -and the necessary buildings being erected f for continuous work. Ti Is estimated by H two different experts that an area of 2o) H acres of ground owned by the Wilson Me- Hi sa JJydrmillc Mining company will avcr- f aice 51 .'j" to the cubic yard in gold and 1 that they will up able to move 100 yards H) of gravel per day In the beginning of the Hj work. In addition to numerous company B buildings there will be quite a town slurt- f ed there this winter, and several business H enterprises established with tlie name of H "Wood bur for a postoffl.ee. Skylark Is Active. H The Skylark company on Mineral moun- H tain, with Edward Wolf as General mnn- B a per. is preparing for extensive mining H operations during the winter by contlnu- H Ing the present tunnel Into the mountain. H MontroEC. Colo., capital Mossr. Block H and Buddccke are at the head, mid two H shifts will be worked from the Ural of 1 November. A car and track has been H 1 urchascd and supplies on the roud suffl- H) clent to last one year. Outside of the H Skylark patented possessions, tho company Hn hns bonded and leased the M. I. F. and H Florence mining claims, and will also H work them by anoll .-i- tunnel on the Flor- H ence ground, necessitating the employ- H ment of eight men all winter. Much Ore in Sight. B Manager M. I. Fowler of the Tornado H group of mines, has completed the 30) H feet of tunnel on the lower workings. H where fully II fly feet of pay ore has been i run through, demonstrating that they V havo fifty feet of mineralized ground in H the contact formation that will average f not less than J1S per ton In gold, free mlll- K Ing ore. Mr. Fowler Is preparing now to H) work all winter and hay been summoned H' to Salt Lake on the ilrst of next month Hr o make the final preparations for ex- m ( tensive development, placing the properly In shape for a big production the coming k summer, with fine prospects of a mill be- B itig built early next spring. B Parties arc expected here the coming week from Chicago to investigate the B- Castle Mountain group of mining claims, MVW and if acceptable In a pending deal, they MVH will at once begin operations on tills prop- erty. The present tunnel of ICO feet Is to f be continued into Castle mountain to a MVM depth of 500 feet, where nn enormous gold H and copper vein will be cross-cut at a vertical depth of fully &Q feet. On the MVM surface the ore averages from fll.20 to f 17 '.0 in gold and C per cent copper. This company also has in view the building f . of reduction works on Castle creek the 1 coming season. Additions are to be made l , I to tho present buildings on the ground h i and the property fully equipped with nil HVM the necessary provisions for extensive fl) and continued development work. After tho Bedrock. Hl i Robinson & McDonald are preparing to iiH ;, Ptait work on the Basin placer tunnel ; on the first of the coming month. They ! will continue work until they have found T ' bedrock at the foot of Bualn creek. The 1 I I tunnel Is In over 1000 feet, wltli a surface 1 depth of over 2-00 fuel, and still they are V In slide rock with no tdgns of channel . i gravel. The entire volume of wnter com- ! Ing from Miners' basin and the stirround- I Ing gulches passes through this channel. and It Is. expected that when they catch MVHy I bedrock an Immense volume of water will j i ho lapped nnd the gravel rich in placer , ( Hill Starts Up. . The Interrttnte mill In Gold basin -was H started up last week, and a test run is HV' now being made. The welcome sound of ! tho first steam mining mill whistle Is M heard quite plainly all over the I,a Sal eowntry. Thev have been In operation for Ms the past week and so far everything BVMMl works like a charm. The power is fur- BVMwJ; nlshed by FalrbnnlM-Morse company ma- MH ehlncry. the mill itself Is a scventy- BVMV ' , I five ton Elpass four-roller quarlr. mill. MB i' and the tramway one of the Improved I Leschum trams. So far Manager J. H BVMW l ' Clark Is highly nleased with general re- BVMmn . suits, and is fully prepared to keep op- sratlons going all winter. Engineer Georgo MW ! fl. Thomas, having no succcssfullv com- ideted his contract of building the mill. MM placing the machinery and constructing the tram, has sevmed his connection with VMH Ihe Interstate company and departed for ( Bait T.ake a few dayn ago. from which ( point he will engage n another similar BV ! undertaking In Nevada. With about 20dl J9 ' tons of ore on the dump and a dnllv pro- M luction of fifty tons from the maln'work- ' InRs of the mine, with an endless terri- i lory of ore reserves, they will bo able to V i 'ontlnne operations from now on without MB!, i ntormlaslon. This Importnnt acquisition J ' w causing mine-owners all over Gold ba- j i (V !'n n1 vicinity to develop their proper- M lies, and from all rcnorts that section is 1 colng to witness much uctlvity during the JMW , j -omlng winter. ji Buys in Beaver Basin. 'I, !i Judge J. A. Erlckson, the nowly-elected JMVJ V. Judge of this district, recentlv purchased VMS , il the Hauser Interests In the CooKle-Wells VMV . P property In Beaver basin. It will bo re- jBV . membered that several months ago this VBS ' J nroperty revenb-d a line body of gold and VMV 1 i "opper ore. which continues to be the at- jBn 1 ii 'raetlon of that olde-of the mountain. The jBn Judgo favors continued and systematical jBb j operations on the property and in all '.' nrobahlllty It will be worked all winter. VMW tl i Mrs, Ida Chandler Wells, our efficient ) h siipei'Inlendent of Schools. Is one of tho Mr : principal, owners, and the. fact that she is V ' i Ii ivcll known in Salt L.akc City and Blng- jM ,j i 3am will be appreciable news to her inanv ftMf , I friends. The Coogle-Wells possessions In ' I Benver basin are considered among tho ! ! richest nnd most valuable In this country. u Smelter Is Planned. Tho McDonald Sulphide Smelting com- fjl ij K pany has cancelled all its contracts for VM a Y the present on account of the lateness of ffl .J j Iho season, but will he on hand early HW j next spring to build tho reported smelter jMjM in Jj They havo secured u site, water right jBjI rl ij (oncenslons, and have encouraged the ,'i (I rulno-owncrs to develop their properties VM !) .his winter and be prepared next season Mh m jj :o furnish them the required amount of I sulphide ore to keep them going when once Ptartcd. Word Is expected here every dny that the High Ore deal 1ms been closed with tho Denver-New York parties, and work started no soon as possible preparing for the winter. The tunnel to tap the High Oro vein will be started on tho north sldo of Mineral mountain in Castlo gulch, where nil the principal buildings are to he erected, also where the Castle Mountain Moun-tain company propose starting their principal prin-cipal mining work and erection of buildings. build-ings. A hitch in the price nnd terms of. the High Ore property seema to be tho only cause for delay, but O. D. Lontsen-hlzer. Lontsen-hlzer. the owner, informs vour correspondent corre-spondent that the deal will go in spite of this. Many Coming In. Will Jacobs, the passenger stage man between Cisco nnd La Sul mountains, reports re-ports that he has orders "ahead for tho arrival of four different parties coming hero to examine mining properties within the next two weeks, one of which Is coming com-ing from Salt Lake. This would indicate that something of an oxtcnolvo naturo was going on in the outside world whereby where-by the Ln SalB ls becoming an interesting point for investors. It Is time yet. with a good winter predicted, for something to be going on In this section the coming winter In addition to what 'In already planned and In operation. 6