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Show Mining JSfotes. i . Never before was so much activity shown in the Beaver Mining district as at the present time. Shafts aro going down everywhere and most of them in ore. Manager Henry M. Crowther, of the Blue Acre company, reports no less than twelve shafts now being sunk on this great copper belt ( and in the vicinity of the O. K. and Blue Acre mines. A large building is being constructed on the Blue Acre ground that will, when completed, ue used as a boarding house for the men and also I as a postofflce for that district. Their No. 1 shaft is now down 120 feet, most of this distance being in ore that is steadily increasing in-creasing in value, the last samples of which show 7.2 ounces in silver, 11.6 per cent copper, and $10 in 'gold to the ton. With all this development work going on in the close vicinity of the O. K.'s new smelter that is rapidly nearing completion, the Beaver district is rapidly forging its way to the front as a producer. C C & The new zinc plant at Park City has been in operation long enough to prove an entire success and the management express themselves as highly high-ly pleased with results obtained so far. Since about the middle of January the plant has been working on the "zinc middlings" from the Daly-Judge Daly-Judge mill, and up to date have shipped about 500 tons to the smelter at Iola, Kansas. The mill has a capacity of 150 tons per day and as the company has a lease on the 20,000 tons of "middlings" already al-ready stored at the Daly-Judge mill, together with all that may be produced between now and October Octo-ber next, their output of zinc is practically as-.' as-.' sured until that time and will no doubt be as- ) sured for a long while to come. A plant of this kind would be a great help to the mines of Bingham Bing-ham canyon where the lead ores carry a large, excess of zinc. 5 & & Very encouraging reports are coming from the Johnny mine and mill at Stateline, and general activity is shown all through the camp. It is apparent ap-parent that the mill on the Johnny property is not of sufficient capacity to handle the output of that mine, and the management Tiave about de- cided to double it by adding another ten stamps. The output of the mine is steadily increasing, and at present the mill is working to its fullest capacity, capac-ity, handling about forty tons per day. Manager Tony Jacobson of the Columbus Con. reports that after driving in the vein for about twenty feet on the tunnel level tlieyt encountered a cave that for a time looked as though it might prove a lake resort so large was the flow of water coming from it. Mr. Jacobson says as soon as it drains itself he will put in timbers and resume drifting. As near as could bo learned the Avails of this cave are all ore and a very promising prom-ising future is looked for by the management and stockholders. |