Show SORTED AND SAMPLED 3 lt in the mining aview B works E Z 3 c A pipe of ore is never smoked until it reaches the furnace some of the best elks Elk sare are some of the best and most successful mining men in the west lueaver beaver county with its copper deposits and copper producing mines is now one of the most popular mining regions of the state park valley is still booming and this richly mineralized section promises to develop into one of the greatest gold producing portions of the great west the mining stock exchange exhibit of ores and minerals on the midway of the elks carnival has attracted a great deal of attention it was a splendid display and a credit to the exchange and to the state some of our country exchanges in mining districts would do well if they would devote more space to the mining industry this is the way to attract the attention of capitalists to the unrivaled mineral resources of out state gold mountain in plute county the home of the great annie laurie will soon have another prolific gold producer on its list in the sevier mine recently bonded by the western exploration of this city of which willard F snyder is president men of means are making more investments and taking fewer chances in mining than they were ten years ago the reason for this is that mining is now reduced to an exact science and investors are not going it blind as much as they were a few years ago the sanitarium was thronged thron ged during elks carnival week this is one of the attractions of salt lake city it is a popular resort its hot sulphur waters are a great curative for many ailments and a bath in the big pools or in the private rooms is a pleasure as well as healthful for miners who are leaded this bathing is almost a sure cure the sanitarium is owned and conducted by one of the leading mining men of the state a man who is openhearted and a big elk salt lake is now more of a competitive ore market than was the case a year ago and producers have less cause to complain when they solicit bids for the product of their properties another big bidder is in the field and is not letting the american smelt ing refining company have its own way as of yore tile the new ore buyer being the bingham copper gold mining company with offices in the mccornick block this company being in the market for copper copper iron and ores see the advertisement of the company in another portion of this paper in addition an independent colorado smelt ing company is in the utah market while one or more independent ore buyers are doing business here IN THE the mountains are afe con constantly scantly movin was the remark of an officer of the deave denvert ra rio grande recently in speaking of the great landslides in the canyon above glenwood springs colo we find from actual experience in maintaining tunnels bridges and aad tracks in the mountains that the mountains are moving it costs a railroad passing through the mountains a great deal of money in the course of ten years to keep the tracks in line and maintenance of tunnels is even more expensive drive a stake on the side of a mountain take the location with thea the greatest care and return after a few months the stake is not in the same location the whole side of the mountain has moved this experiment has often been tried and in all cases the result proves that the mountains are moving the mountains are gradually seeking the level of the sea while we do not quite agree with the last assertion that I 1 the mountains are seeking 0 sea level there appears no question but that local movements are in progress in the and the observations of the railroad surveyor are confirmed by those experienced in some of the ole mines in quite a number of mines located on fiegure veins or between highly tilted strata or in the vicinity of great faults movements have been for a long time observed and sometimes of so pronounced a nature that timbers after a few years are so out of place as to require a complete new timbering of portions of the mine and these movements do not seem to be the result as in coal mines of a creeping from excavation of a material but actual slipping or faulting movements of the mountain itself along certain lines especially old fault planes and veins the latter generally occupying fissures alonar alon fault lines A notable instance is in the m mines aines of smuggler mountain at aspen colo where in some of the deep workings timbers two feet thick and eight to ten feet long placed across the are snapped in two like reeds and their ends up by the overwhelming wh elming pressure and slipping movements of the walls the ore bodies lie between strata almost vertically against M a granite mountain or wall and abound in faults and slipping planes these movements are not the result of excavation of the ore but appear to come from a general movement of the hills slipping or faulting off from the granite wall mines and minerals of scranton pa for september 1901 |