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Show LAST CHARGE CLAIM DEAL ABOUT CLOSED Utah Mine Company Probably Will Close Important Deal This Week. When the directors of the Utah Mine meet within tho next few days, they will have up for consideration matters of tremendous tre-mendous Importance to the organization. Tho Utah Mine, though ono of the most inlthful shippers of rich ores and dividend payers of tho State, has a comparatively Email amount of territory within lis lines, and a deal Is now pending which will bring In another claim, and one with a record equal, as far as Its development goes, to the Utah Mine Itself. Thla additional addi-tional property Is the La-st Chance claim, and it is thought It will be brought within the Utah Mine's lines before the end of the week. All Inquiry Tuesday regarding the deal was parried by tho local officials of the company. The Tribune being referred to Rodney Badger, who Is the president of the company. Mr. Badger stated that he. thought It best not to say anything about the deal until It was consummated, but as rumors of the same had becomu public property ho thought It would do no harm to have everything poperly understood, lie says the company simply desires more ground, and In the Last Chnnce claim It Is thought thero Is a very valuable piece of property far the Utah Mine to socure. The Last Chance has been a producer of Importance in the early days, the upper up-per levels presenting practically another Utah Mine. The latter company, by meanp of Its lower workings, can enter the Last Chance without much delay or expense- at fine depth, and the ore reserves re-serves of tho company should be Increased In-creased many fold easily within a short tlmo after this work begins. The fact that the Utah Mine has ordered Just recently re-cently additional equipment is taken in local circles as one sound argument why the Last Chanco will bo taken up. The Utah Mine Is one of the most prosperous pros-perous mining organizations in tho list of Utah's silver-lead producers. From the surface tho mine has paid for Jtself. never calling on the stockholders for assistance as-sistance In any way. The ores arc so uniformly rich that much low grade can be mixed wllh the extremely high grade for economical shipment to market, but there naturally has been allowed to accumulate ac-cumulate a good tonnage of oro that will be marketed easily wlmn m-tr -lmW railroad facilities arc at the dbjaK the management. At present u JTK haul from Fish Springs to Oailt, baK ments and dividends neither fun at any time during the hlstor cf liR ganizatlon. The Lost C'har.c r9H. will be a very valuable addltlcaH; lines of the Utah Mine. |