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Show r?,' .. V- '.si. UHIVERSrrc LXaBARV CITY ! i 1 ' fWi Vy WESTERN MINERAL SURVEY FOR SLOO YOU A AD - Western RECEIVE te tee tnth Mineral tmii , Survey Mw yea tee him aad aiaat aetleatta alalia aad Iha West, rin Wfclafc Ulwmhla ."V . Published Every Friday r - Features Oil. Mines. Shale YOU NO. 9. NO. 9. SALT LAKE Underground Development In Tintic District Brings - Development Continued Notwithstanding Handicap of Bad Weather. Beginning of the meet important development work dona la recent years In the Btar district at Milford, Utah, will bo undertaken at once In' the Moscow Silver Mines company property. Just as soon aa weather conditions permit. Manager Garrett B. Wilkin will give orders for tho sinking of tho three compartment shaft from the 1100 to tha 1000 level. The Red Warrior limestone, in which the replacement deposits of the Moscow occur, will bo prospected In the lower horixone. a project of major Importance to Beaver county, since the management U confident the ore will be proved to greet depth and mining In the district put on a now and more, comprehensive basis through tho geo logic data accumulated by thU the deepest work ever dona In the Milford area. At the same time, drifting will be started on tho 100 level of tho old shaft on tha other side of tha mountain to cut tho upward projection on tho ore shoot out on the 1100 level. Should this piece of work, involving but a fow hundred fact of drifting, suecead, a new mine will be opened up above the 1100 level and production doubled. Current development In tho Moscow handicapped in tho matter of ore shipments, hoe opened up conditions, which tend to convince tho management that tho faulted segment of the ore body productive In tha upper levels of more than a million dollars has at last been found. This ore was followed from the 1402 level down to tho 1112 level where It opened up to five feet On tho 1(42, fifteen feet of ore was crosscut. Four earloads of ore, derived from development work In oinking from the 1422 to tha 1(12 and drifting forty foot on tho 1(12, sotted tho company from 1122 jo (1222 to tha car aM. carried iswM-er- jt peri ounces of stive ana cast lead, 22.1 par .cent Iron- InContinued production waa terrupted by unusual enow conditions that have blocked tho road. Tho company has been faced with discontinuing operations tampor- arily or with doing practically all dead work. Ore bins have be ore filled so that drifting; body on the 1(42 level lgthe Impractical Durln tha interim,' the winxe la being sunk to the 1122 level, where a drift will be run to find tbo downward continuation of tho ore. ' Whether this deposit to the downward continuation of tho big Moscow ore body, on another shoot followed vn tha 1122 level and followed down for 122 feet, to problematical according to Manager Garratt A Wilkin. Tbs latter shoot, while not aa large nor as rich aa tho main Moscow ore body, was a good producer. However, since the ore first a sulphide has changed to a carbonate, Mr. Wilkin la of tha opln-lo- o that tho 1(42 depoolt to tho faulted segment of tho main Moscow ore shoot. st - Gan- -, . down-throw- Prices of Lead And Copper Hit New High Levels Three advances were scored by copper during the week which carried tho price up to II e. Now fork with 20e predicted In the near future.. This U the highest level, that the red metal has touched since 1120, when quoUtlons took a ness dive to 12 e. Since tho beginning of tho year, when tho price stood at II c, tho metal has scored a net advance of 2 e. Lead moved up on Wednesday to a new high for many months of 17.10 a hundred. These advances should set as a vaat stimulus, to mining In Utah and tho Intermountain states. Utah, as second largest producer of copper and third largest pro- ducar of lead, will profit imv mensely. . l-l- I, - pur-chas- , I Nevada Copper Dies Official At McGill Home : Georgs C. Riser, superintendent of concentration for tha Nevada Consolidated Copper company, and brother of O; F. Riser, vice president and manager of (ha National Equipment company, died at hU homo In McGill, Nevada. Mr. Riser was horn Aug. II, 1171. Ho received hie education In the Balt Lake publlo schools and grad-uate- d from the University of UUh no bachelor of arte. Mr. Riser took tho lead In school athletics and waa reeponslbls for their Inlroduc-tlo- n at tha university. Ha Utor became manager of athletic. - For 21 yeare, Mr. Riser waa motive, lu. porphyry copper p pen ll one, first with tho UUh Copper company and afterwards with tho Nawhom ho vels Consolidated, with was aseoelatad for 1 1 years. He U survived by hie widow, BUnche Richards Riser; two daughters, Ruth, a student at the University of Minnesota, and LvU; ona son, George Rlrhards Riser; his father, Georgs C. Riser, and the following brothers and sisters: Orson F. of Balt Lake, Sidney B. of Beattie, Wilford U of Oakland. Calif.; Mrs. E. A Brough of Mont-polle- r, Ida.; Mrs. BUlr Richardson end Mrs. John E. Dooly of Balt Lake Cltr. . Driving Oh 1100 Near Ore Zones Exploration In tho North Standard mine In the East Ttntlo district U being carried on near four, Important objectives on tha 1100 level. Not more than 200 foot of work should ba necessary to open up all of them. The first of these U being approached In a drift on tho 1100 Urol at a point 701 foot east of tho shaft. In thU area. Manager John Dorlua expect! that tha downward continuation of a large body of hemetito carrying low values in sliver end lead should bo opened up. ThU sons seventy d five by fifty feet lying In a limestone along tho conone tact of of tho main prophyry dikes of tho formation, woe opened up on tha 100 level, tho 100, tho 010, and 1010 and in every instance tho mineralisation showed a slight Increase. In places, boulders of perbonato ora carrying high values were struck. Farther along on tho same contact one hundred foot north, another highly mineralised sons, somewhat Urger than tho first, should bo struck. On the ISO lever, this area of replacement was 200' feet long and 10 to 10 feet east and west. Bunches of ore on tho footwall, carried IS to 10 per cent lead rad 00 ounces of silver to tho ton, aeordlng to Mr Dorlua Tho 1100 drift, now being pushed to these objectlviea, U entirely In quarts with one foot of talc. brae-date- ng Minerals and Metals Corporation Opens Up Mercury Deposit The Minerals RENO, Nevada A Melale Holding Corp. operating three mining properties recently acquired at Sulphur, Humboldt Co., Nevada, reporta an Important discovery of cinnabar oro in a vein about 1( feet wide on the commercial showing surdcs, values. The discovery will be de veloped at once by the driving of a tunnel to determine oro values at depth. This new work will bo In addition to two tunnels which are now being driven to open gold silver veins. (Continued on Pago Four) Utah Metal Mines Disburse At Rate Of Six Utah dflnea during the first two months of tbo year 1121 disbursed a total of l,ir,IM,?l In dividends to stockholders. By the first of April, or at tho end of tbo first quarter when' regular quarterly disbursements for tho first quarter- have been made by tho Utah tho Tlnllo Standard, Copper, and others, this total will have been increased to epproxt-mateld- y 12,427,212 or at tho rate of 2(,022.222 annual, not includdividends the paid by United ing States Smelting properties but not reported. Companies that have paid dends up to tha first of Manh ere te Yankee Mines. (17.(22.11; Tin-t- ie Standard, 1222.212; Silver King Coalition. I2(,11C.72; Park Utah Consolidated. 9411,722; Bingham Mines. 1 3 (,220 and North Lily, divi- 9112.222. Tho Utah Copper usually pays Ita dividend on tho twenty-nint- h or thirtieth of tha lest month of Feud! Bllllngsby. Salt Lake geologist, spent part of last eneh quarter. If no change to made week making e mine examination in the dividend rale of 91 a share te Eureka, Nevada quarterly the Utah Copper will con-tili- , $25,000,000 I Yearly a total of 94.17 2.- or at tho rate of 111.(20,002 Standard Tlntla generalannually. ly paya He first quarterly dividend on March 22. This will amount to 9141,0X4. If no change to made. Tho dividend paid by tho Tlntie Standard of 9222,112 enumerated In the foregoing list to port extra dividend paid during the holidays. The rise in the price of load to 97.12 n hundred should hove an Important effect on. dividends. Should load hold steady n number of Utah mines may find It to increase tho rate of dis bursement. When the slump. cams In toed n number of mine, Including the Tlnllo Standard and the Blnghem Mines, eut their disbursements. Several Including , the Utah Apex end the Chief Con., discontinued dividend payments altogether. Chances for tho reappearance of tome of these mines In tho list ef dividend payer am said to be good end some Important developments along this Una may be expected during the year, It lead and copper are at or near their penult levels. ray on March 21 'da-elra- J M be provided. Passenger traffic will ba expedited. Backers of tho unique plan envision tho day, when a business men wlU - ha able to make tho entire trip from Capo-towFortune has smiled In no uncerSouth Africa, to London tain manner on tho development train-Tim1 e without over saving hie consumed In covering this fostered by the Majesila Mines company on Ite property situated from will reduced distance be great weeks to days. 20 miles south of Beawswe, NeElectricity Used. to run electric vada, according to a representaIt proposed to trains through tbo tunnel at tho tive of a Balt Lake valley smeltrate of six to an hour at n speed company, who visited tho propot from sixty to seventy miles an ing hour. It la not believed that' a erty last week. After tunneling 100 feet Into the tunnel for automobile traffic will bo practical because of the dan- granodlortte, and sinking ten feet ger of carbon monoxide and other n full face of oro assaying fio poiatnous gases. Shipment of au- ounces of silver to tho ton was extomobiles by railroad wilt allow tho motorist to see both aides of posed. This was drifted on for own car. hto the channel from foot. Tho wjnse was rank This to not tho first time that thirty thirty feet. Crosscutting the Idea of tunneling below tho another Chennai to form n land connection a short distance struck the ora on dip and an otuer seven feet between England and Franco hea been advanced. In 1122, n start face of ore wee stiuek. Jn was actually made frtm Shakea 101111 of not more then 17 S feet, the company has speare cliffs near Dover. A boring comte to said disc, operated by hipped four carloads to a Balt pressed air, made fifteen yards Lake valley smelter and another hours. A total three carloads to on tho road. every twenty-fou- r of 2222 foot of more wee dug be"According to Manager J. O. fore political complications put OrMiuiBg tho mine le producing stop to work. three truck loads dally. Nor At present, it la believed that to tho ore struck ofIn oro the international angle end the Mines a low grade tho Majestic product. Carproblems invtlved have been taken shipments ara carrying (2 care of. Two companies. It ie said, load ouncas of silver to the ton. 92 in and are to bo formed, ona British 4 per cent lend rad. .2 one French to advance tho tunnel gpld, pet n, - ' '. aeiiSfep5SR!Mm - cent copper. Next to tho Majostlo group, un-dthe direction of Me infer Groenan tho company la opening a allver-:- t ad deposit In tho lime-tip stone. A pipe of oro, 22 feet li diameter, has been followed qq m rake for fifty feat. Values of this oro are running about 2( ounces of silver to the ton, 9 per cent lend and some copper. Tho company to donning oqf tho lower Mays edit. Borne ore is known to exist in this heading and ' IMS TMe bKjnUa wgr showing the downward extension of tho nppor pro body may be struck. - Tbe district In which the Majea-tl- o er - fit Mines company to doing work is ono that has boon "gophered" to a considerable extent bu? no careful exploration done.. Across tha gulch from tho Majestic, a tun nel haa been driven 1,022 tact, but It Is said that activities ceased before any decisive point reached and before the company took the troubte to drift on the fissures croaecut. Big Cottonwood Mine Operator Dies Suddenly - Fark-Bingha- . - 4 '. Drifting now under way will- bo carried on in tbo two members of tM Buckeye mndetone, tho eh and Buckeye. Tha strike of tho bedding will be followed to ascertain if the- - large bedded productive of eight or ten million ounces of ellvtr In the upper horixone, extend to depth. Exploration under way In tho Silver, Reef district la- unique in that fissures apparently had no In fluehra upon mineralisation. Several theories have bean elaborated to explain this condition. Borne engineers have been of tho opinion that tho mineral waa told down at tho same time aa the sandstone. Others believe that the mineralising solutions spread along the bedding planes end replaced the sand- Tecu-mue- NEW YORK. Directors ef the Andea Copper Mining company, which to contoltod by Anaconda' Copper Mining company, have placed the common stock on a 93 an-- . nual basis,- - with declaration diviof a quarterly 7 to paydend. able May I 'to stock of record March 22. - In December dividend was paid a 7 out of accumulated earnings Prior to celling of convertible d ends. Change In Mining Law Is Advocated WASHINGTON, D. C Pending toblstotlon it permit patenta to sera tracts of land containing, minerals at depth without showing a mineral discovery aa required by 322 the present law, but requiring compliance with 'Other provisions of tho mining lews haa been endorsed by..the American' Mining Congress. Representative Lewis Douglas of Arisons, la tho author of the legislation which has passed the House and Is pending before the Senate Publlo Lends Committee. In endorsing the bin at a hearing before the committee on behalf of the American Mining Congress. M. W. Kraigh. chief of Ita mineral land division, eeld the legislation would revivo and stimulate prospecting and remove the handicaps which hove been crested by the homestead laws under which prospectors have been i excluded from large areas. 'Mr. stone. The ore- often occurred ,wfth carbonised vegetable remains, similar In charcter to the deposition of uranium end vanadium la the sandstone, where condltlone evidently favored mineral replacement. V. Within the next six months or so, some important data as to tho extent of Silver Reef mineralisation should bo gained. If a sufficient tonnage - can be proved,. large scale millingoperations will undoubtedly - be Initiated, and the" - Untimely Death Utah Mining Man Caines Sorrow Mining men ewre shockeJjy tbo news last EsturdaB BwrningSfhat Fred Dern, for many yean prohQ-Ine- nt In Balt Lake financial min Ing and sports , circles, bad died Friday evening- of an apoplotls stroke. Of a genial, kindly nature, Mr. Dern waa widely known and liked. Tbe only brother of Governor Goorgo H. Dern, ha had a boat of friends. A lover of outdoor sports Krlegh sold: In his younger days.' an athThe present tow requires actu- and of ability, Mr. Dora displayed al discovery of minerals in place lete an unbounded vlova of life, that in order to prove a patent lor a madehlm popular wherever ho lode claim. This law was suffi- went cient so long aa discoveries were Only two weeks ago, with hie mode ef outcrops cm the surface. Mr. Dern had returned from But mines ere no longer discover- wife, n month's vleit to Panama where ed In this manner. They are now located end discovered at unheard they visited thtlr daughter, Mrs, of depths in locations where the W. F. Dean and ben husband. Lieuexistence of tho mineral could bo tenant W. F. Dean. Mr. Dern was horn In Dodgo expected only as tho result tf underground exploration which dis- county, Nebraska- October 1, 1174, closed geological Indications that where ho went to school atof-Nebraska. At tbe age II, pointed to tho existence of oro bodies. By scientific methods of ha came to Utah with hie parental now He studied at the University of being developed, prospecting it will be possible to Itcete bodies Utah and then entered the Colorof minerals at depths which would ado School of Minos, but was forcmake discovery aa defined by our ed to leave before completing hie present taws Impossible, and ya( no course eif account ot Illness. prospector or operator would be Through tho commotion of his Justified In raising the funds and father, the mining man. Incurring the expense necessary to John Denv-wlt- pioneer Mercur activities. open up a body of oro at great Fred. Dern became active at Iho depth below tno surface, except Utsh gold camp. For a under legal prtvislon which would famous of years, with hie brother Insura to him the ownership of number now George, governor of the state that era body when finally de- of Utah, ho wee active in the Dern veloped. operations, principally tho Consolidated Mercur; In 1127, ho organised with Arthur Thomas, tho brolc- - Lofty Chimney Completed At Nevada Copper Smelter ; A' . James II. Doran, for many yerai superintendent of tho Cardiff Mining end Milling company property In Big Cottonwood canyon, near Alta, died at a Salt Lake hospital Feb. 21 following a week's Illness of heart disease. Mr. Doran waa born in Bollonck county, Ireland, Da& 22, 1171. He Utah. speakPrincipal Coal operators and onglnecn of tho Hotel mining In Perk City early In er. H. J. Plumhof, general man- began bis youth. For 12 years ho wee from nil parte of tho lntermountmln ager, Oregon Short Line railroad. superintendent at the Cardiff mine. west will convene In Salt Lake City 9 p.m. to 12 p.m. Dancing; Arid Just before hto death, be had been on March 11 to 19 at tho Hotel orchestra. (Obtain tickets upon superintending operation at the Utah' to discuss problems of tho reglMratlon.) Tuesday 2:22 a.m. Sessions on industry. Sessions will bo held Mechanised Mlnlnr, G. Southward, Gaudin Appointed under the Auspices of tbo Utah sec- mechanisation engineer of tbo Mining Cogreae. Washtion ef tho American Mining and American "Mechan-laeM. Gaudin, at present a A. d Prof. ington, D. C., presiding: Metallurgical Inatltute, and tho faculty of tno UniMining," G. B. Southward; member of the hea been appointed versity of UUh Rocky Mountain Coni Mining Insti- "Mechanised Mining at Liberty Mine, Latuda, Utah," George A. research professor of ore dressing tute. Bchulta superintendent. Liberty at the Montana State School of Otto Herres, president of tho Fuel company; "Operation end Mine effective July 1, 1122. This coal mining organisation, will pre- Maintenance In Mechanised Min- to the first research professorship Meto be enlisted at the Institution, side. All meetings will bo held ing from tho Viewpoint of thoGleaEoRlltt; Department," F. E. j either In the bell room or tho sup- chanical master mechanic. son, per room of the Hotel Utah. Two Unitedgeneral Fuel company, Hianoted engineer will 'come from watha, States Utah: "Drilling and BlastWashington, D. C. to proeldo over ing Methods for Mechanical Loadsessions 'These are D. Harrington, under Utah Conditions," II, Pecblof engineer, safety division of tbo ing tho terson, engineer, United States bureau of mines, and Herculesexplosives Powder company: "BlastG. B. Southward, mechanisation en- ing Coni in Connection Mewith gineer of 'the American Mining chanical Loading, D. C. Foote, Congress. Mino end engineer, safety Inspector Complete program for session the Union Pacific Coal company, to as follows: Reliance mine, Wyoming. 13:22 to A 3(2 foot roaster chimney The lining, four Inches thfek. noon Special organ recital at tabMonday, March 1112 am. from tha mein shaft by and Organisation. ernacle of tho L. D. b. Church on rss been completed at the McGill, separated Registration two Inch air space. a.m Opening Session, Otto tho Temple grounds, adjoining Ho- Nevada smelter of tho Nevada a A lightning rod consisting of Ilorres. president. Rocky Mountain tel Utsh. 12:4( p.m. Luncheon for Consolidated twelve company. Copper ropper Aftplatinum tipped Coal Mining Institute, presiding. rllstlng ladles at the Alta club. 4 and foundations were pointers with two In. cables to Provo, vtoltlng Chimney Introductory remarks, John M. ernoon-Trip a la tod Cu the for ground connections, surmounts by Alphona Boutoll, chairman, Utah section A. Colombia Steel plant and Provo designed and the structure. company, Chimney designers I. M. E.; address of welcome, Hon. foudry. 7:32 p.raw Theatre party builders of some of tho largest end The old 322 ft. reverberatory Goorgo H. Dern, governor of Utah. Capitol theatre. In the world. Tho chimney is being repaired after 22 tallest chimneys 3 p.m. Sees Ions ot "Safety," D. a.m. March to dis131:32 but a short Wednesday, chimney, which years of service. Flue duet accreHerrington, chief engineer, safety of Mechanical tance from tho router .budding, tion on top to being removed and Continuation ! division, U. . Bureau of Mines. Loading "Mechanical eliminates approximately 122 feet a lightning rod Insulted. Session; Remsrka on "Safety," presiding. In Colorado." D. A. Stout, of brick flue conecting up with The chimney proper required D. Harrington; "Accident I'reven- - Loading Colorado Fuel end the old chimney. chief sixty carloads of radial brick, four tlon at Dawson." Wm .Moorehead. Iron engineer, of A "Problems Cutlrell dust precipitating cat of cement, two cars of fireccompany; I assistant general foreman. Stag Doable Shifting Mechanical Load-jin- s, plant and short flues will connect lay-, on car of pure silica flour, Canyon Branch, New Mexico Wm. Woodhead, general sup- tbs new chimney with the roast-- j two egra of pure silica sand, end i Phelpe-Dndg- e Corporation: l)em-- i erintendent, Independent Coal end Ing furnaces. It to planned to com- - about eight ears of elieri onstratlon of the explosiblllty of 'Coke company, Kenilworth, Utah. mence construction of the Cottrell coal dust, Frank C. Miller, chief 3:22 p.m. Roof Control" W. H. plant In March. . chemist, Colorado Fuel and Iron Wolmor, engineer. Union Pacific The new 'chimney hu an Inside company; "Safety Practices of the Coni company, Superior . Mine, diameter of twenty foot and rises imt'se rn United States Fuel Company," J. 3(2 feet above tho foundation, Tho of P. Russell; general safety Inspect- - ing Appliances." J. M. Orr. Balt reinforced concrete foundation for tons, making a total weight nr, Hiawatha, Utah: "Ventilation of Loko City, Utah; "The New Jetfnry i the chimney to sixty feet In dlame- - (322 tore for tbo entire structure. United .Loader," E. O. Wlederandere with ter st the bottom and extends flf- - It would require approximately Mines," O. A. Glaeeer, The 122 cars to transport all iho Verde Copper company, Jerome, films and views of equipment for teen feet Into tho ground. Arisons. 7 p.m. Annual banquet mining by various man- - chimney consists of the main shrift 1 tertato used in the construction of Inside acid proof lining. the entire chimngy. and an for membera and ladies in ballroom lecturers. Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Men Wil Meet In Salt Lake d i Another important stage has been reached in the Silver Reef enterprise of the American Smelting and Refining company. Sinking of the three compzatment abaft haa been completed to a depth of 540 feet and the objective Buckeye, sandstone haa been pierced. Stations have been cut in the Tecumaeh and Buckeye members of the formation at 420 and 460 feet respectively according to A. II. Means, manager of the western department of the American Smelting and Refining company, who returned from an inspection of the Washington country property, south of St. George on Wednesday. ' . .ll : . an by-eo- n "3 American Smelting and Refining Company Open Shipments to Salt Lake tiona at Silver Reef Enter Decisive Period Valley Being Made With Relation to F uture of Old Comp. From New Discovery. from tho shore of each nation. Another holding company will bo formed to care for operatltna after completion. Warning Given, Napoleon Bonaparte was tbe first man to dream of an English channel tunnel Ho proponed tho project to tbo greet British statesman, Charles James Fox. Napoleon III .gave bis political support 122 foot of program dally can, be tt tho project but tho Franco-Prussiaccomplished with a special war prevented any acMined, pneumatically driven tion, Later, both the Gladstone Ing machine operated S BM' ThU no mile of tunnel In 42 weeks. Tho crosa section of tho first bore both Franco and. Britain claimed wlU have a diameter of eight feet; the full right to flood their m el tbo second, 12 feet; and the last, spectlve side of the tunnel national two tunnoto will bp time tho exigencies of II2 feet. The from deto wore center to con protection thought feet apart ter with connections for repairs mand that measure, and tho plane tunnel construction provided for and safety made at Intervale of tf en almost Instantaneous flooding vary mile. Tbo . Channel at Its points of at either end. Strained relatione between greatest depth to lfi feet deep. nance over Egypt The tunnel will be driven about 1(2 In 1212 end England tho tamed report feet below tbo bottom so that In of Lord brought n commender-lWolscly, tho middle of the channel, the dis- chief of tho British army, which tance below tho surface of tho wadefinitely halted tunnel constructer will bo about 222 foot( accord- tion at both end. "Englands pro ing to piano being considered new. tectloa of tho sea will be destroyed Engineers, who bake mbeen re- by the building tf this tunnel." be caretained to study tho probl-said, "and Britain herself could fully, aay that there will be no bo destroyed without warning even sea ever of tho breaking profound If danger Europe were In into tho tunneL Tho Job to not peeoe." Since that time British Profesonly entirety feasible but It should prove an Immense boon to com- -, sional military opinion has conmerce. A swift and economical tinued stubbornly to hold to the outlet for products of all kinds will Wotoely dictum. TOw-4bav- ir . (By Gall Martin) Not all tho mining In tho Is done In regions fortunately dowed with mineral deposits. Tork City, whose "mines" In tall their long and active career save never produced a pound of oret to ona of tho biggest mining camipSin the world. During most mot he of tha year, more compressed ,ir drills are active in New York thpn In any mining camp In the weild. An immense amount of mining au to bo dona to excavate foundations for buildings end te perform other servlets in connection with con?- struction work. Ono of tho biggest mining Jobs to be undertaken any place In pit world will bo tho proposed tunpel under the English Channel betwmn Dover and Calais, France. -- Flgst proposed by Napoleon and started oevaral times but always discouraged by the British profeaatenal soldier. It now looks aa If th(s gigantic task would he undertaken and carried onward to a succewe ful culmination. Coat of thlsprm- ect to estimated at 21(2,221 Estimated yield, (7,171,222 annually. Total length of tunneling, (I miles, which includes two tunnels 24 miles long with throe miles pf cut and grade at each end, As an engineering feat, th enterprise Involves many unusual features. Fortunately, tho naturo-a- f tho formation beneath the Channel favors tunneling. Eight thousand drill cores taken by qke French government have eetabltoh-e- d tha tact that a bed of MM blue geult 12 miles wide and .92 feat deep stretches from shorn t shore. Formation Favorably 'A This material, a calcaraoqa aw. Impervious to water- although (-- 4? Drifting Starts in Two Most ... ; Important Producing. Members Washington County Formation Special Equipment Is Developed . sd Central Standard. Active. Drifting at the Central Standard mine northeast of tha North Idly, at tha northeast and of what la Vslleved to bo the same fissure system being exploited In the North DesUly and the Chief Con. In Us ert area to the southwest, is weU tinder way. On tbs upper levels, in 'tha limestone, the Central Standard v opened up a number of mineralised fissures; which grow stronger in mineralisation and In also with depth In tha quartslta. Accordingly the company is drifting to the southwest on the a1200 level In tha quartette along fissure from It to It feet wide la the direction of the North lily. Eaiwka Standard Delayed. - ' Approximately two miles to the of the Control Standard south hut also In tho same Cambrian quartslta, the Tintic Standard Mining company baa opened up a Urge body of gold quarts orsUn Ita Eureka Standard property. Development of this deposit carried on with gratifying results down to tho 1200 Urol has been deUyed during tbs last month by adverse weather. An electric hoist has been by tho company to expedite oinking of tho throe compartment shaft from the 1100 to tho 1100 levels. InetalMtlon of this equipment has been postponed until the weather settles. .Wednesday night, tho district was experiencing one f the severest storms of recent years. A barrage of snow waa be Ing Uld down by a gaU that positively precluded the possibility of outdoor work until tho weather moderates and surface conditions are more favorable. $1 YEAR; 60c. 6 MOS.; 6c COPY. . Development in the Untie district for the current week had for its most important event the opening up of a body of ore in the Chief Consolidated Mining companys Desert area, on the 1200 level at a point about 400 feet southwest of the main North Lily ore body and twenty feet in Chief Con territory. Development in thin area, bounded by the two northeast-southweporphyry .dikes between which the North Lily bonanza lies, is closely watched. Opening of any sizeable deposit would not only have a most important bear ing on Chief Con operations but upon development in the The era body, according to oral Manager Cecil Fitch, waa high the drift, grada In tha bottom ofback. That; and lower grade In the should ba' auch a atrong showing struck la the Ophlr quartzite la tha highly encouraging and proves country to bo exceedingly wall mineralised. The showing la evidently associated with tha asms fissure out on the 1100 level by tha North Lily drift from the bottom of the Desert area wlnso to the northeast a short distance about a fortnight ffl, Three Headings manned. comThe Chief Copeolldated pany, according to Mr. Fitch's . statement by long distance telephone Thursday, will sink and ralsa on the fissure and drift along Ita strike to the southwest. , The two hundred foot of drifting done by the Chief Con. in progressing southwest, has all been in the quartette, according to Mr. Fitch. By following the lead up ward, tbs Ophlr limestone formation should ho entered In about 100 feet. The drift to the south, west also Should out the Ophlr forn fault mation in a block. The showing struck by tha North quartette wss dtoare-gardlily In intheorder to. push the drift CUT UTAH, MARCH 1, 1929. A Chief Con. Strike Strong Ore Lead in Quartzite; Central Standard Pushe Work; Eureka Standard Hoist Installation Held Up. whole district.- .? . Fifty Miles orTnnnel Proposed 'I Problem Intrigues Engineers . Forth Important Results ri ' v: . . Fro-mo- od, ersgs firm of Dern and Thomas, This firm continued to do a targa business, until Mr. Dern retired to make a trip around tho world with Mrs. Dern and his eon and daughter. At the time of hie death, he wee In the brokerage business for himself with offices In the Exchange building. He wee also a of Iho William H. McIntyre corporation and numerous mining companies tho DuckvHt Gun dull. Balt Lake Country club, a memb- -r of tho Wasatch Lodge No. 1 F. and A. M.. the Kelt Lake Lodge No. B. P. O. E. He wet else a Khriner and a thirty-secon- d degree Mason, On Merck 1.' Mr. Dern would have celebrated the silver 10 hta wife, . ennl-wdd- ,n Julia McIntyre Dern. Daveler Honored. Erie V. Daveler, men. seer ef tho Butte general end Superior - Mining elected wee recently American Institute of Mlnlnr and MetallurMr. Daveler to a gical Engineers graduate of the University of California end has been connected with the Jsckllng-Heyde- n Stone Inter. company, a director of the ests for many years. He la president ef the Silver Bow club. Bulls, and a director of the Butte corn-- u ber of commerce- - , I ' '.1- - |