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Show r r"rTTrT'riM''',jSi rTT'''riirk '.t.'i's'sv-tyczzz ; I miningctiopT ! GENERAL MINING NEWS GATHERED FROM COUNTY CAMPS LND I FROM THE MINING CENTERS THROUGHOUT THE STATE Beaver County is one of the Coming Counties of the State as a Mineral Proucer ! Both as to Quality and as to diversity of Mineral Wealth Capital Would do Well to Investigate Beaver County Properties, WThich are iV j j "Prospects" but Proven Territories j GETS THREE MORE CLAIMS j ' East Antelope has acquired three I i additional claims, making a total of j 11 now owned by this company. RED WARRIOR Angus Buchanan, who returned , last week from Southern California, is preparing to reopen the Red War- rior mine at once. Mr. Buchanan j is very optimistic as to the outlook j for this property and believes it will amply justify expectations. ' ANOTHER XEW COMPANY The South Antelope Mining Company Com-pany has just been organized and started operations a week ago. They have three claims to the south of the Antelope Star, which they will at once develop. The South Antelope is owned largely by Salt Lake people' and Is not a connection of the East and the Star. HORNT SILVER DIVIDEND r The Horn Silver Mining Compa.T j owning the famous old Horn.Jnth mine, at Frisco, Utah, has th'or the posted its second divid'o cents a present year. It call-$20,000,. and ; share, or a total nanQTT,w 5(1 was distributftfaue a disbursement j The compamount on April 15, and ot a si9,e'nt declaration brings the !the ;rom tne property to the pres-.Vt pres-.Vt owners to the healthy figure of $5,692,000. It is stated that the payments to former owners were almost al-most equal to that figure. Leasers at the property have erected a large milling plant there and have been working over the old dumps the past year. Shipments of silver-lead ore from the mine have been heavy, in addition to the zinc profit. W. H. Hendriskson is manager. -. ; THE NELLIE GROUP The Nellie group, consisting of 8 claims in the Star district is, we understand un-derstand offered for sale or lease. . Recent assays of its production show 8 to 10 per cent copper, 36 per cent lead, 15 to 20 ounces of silver and $1 gold. Five tons of gold-silver ore are on the dump, running about $42 a ton. Five to six tons of copper ore worth from $55 to $60 a ton also are on the dump ready for shipment. The main tunnel is in 325 feet on the vein and a winze is down 65 feet showing 8 feet of low grade copper ore. Another winze is down 7 feet encountering a vein 8 feet wide and no walls on either side yet apparent. The Nellie group is 37 years old and at one time was an extensive shipper. It is in excellent territory, having as neighbors the Commonwealth Beacon,, which, years ago is said to have shipped a $10,000 car of ore. The Lady Bryan, St. Mary's, Moscow and others, all good properties. All the assessment work for 1916 has been done and the mine is said to ibe in excellent physical condition. The Nellie is owned by Mr. and Mrs. ' (nee-Forgie) Albert Joest, of Mil-ford. I !KENO TO RESUME Managing Director K. S. Jordan and Superintendent Tanner of the Keno are actively engaged In arranging ar-ranging to resume operations on the 10th of this month. The Keno now has a shaft flown 100 feet and the I first work to be undertaken will be I the driving of a big tunnel on the S N.W. S. E. contact, through the I quartzite and lime, to cut the east-S east-S west fissure which is the same fissure y on which the East Antelope is work- I i Here they expect to strike a good g j and substantial ore body at about jg 800 feet from the mouth of the main 3 j tunnel. This tunnel is to be almost I I parallel to the N.W. S.E. fissure a which crosses the two Antelopes and 1 Keno properties. It is expected that 7? the main tunnel will be cut about ""l 200 feet under the present 100 foot j shaft in the bottom of which they have S or 9 feet of copper ore and some gold. Some samples of this gold have assayed as high as $200 a ton. From the main tunnel, crosscuts will be made to the N.W. S.E. fissure. fis-sure. There will be but one shift put on at the start but after the snows are over for the year, another shift will be added. The Keno is an excellent property and is located in the midst of a highly mineralized section. The East Antelope and Antelope Star are south and east 1 1 of the Keno. -XUGGETS '( I George and Roy Baxter, are prospecting pros-pecting a claim acquired from the Copper Ranch Company. In the Antelope district there are eight mines in active operation, within the radius of a mile. me ouumerii facine system n; announced a reduction of the rati on ore shipments from Nevada poin to the Utah smelters. 1 on r It is reported that a d'"'",ia for the property of the company, ' wood Silver King Mi"'od district, located in Big Co' Utah. - .tics have nothing in ' Coal an some of the Utah pro-' pro-' common placing a coat of whlte-ducrop whlte-ducrop coal shipped in open cars vxmtside states. This is to determine deter-mine whether or not the coal is being be-ing stolen. Shipments from the South Helca at Atla, Utah, have been greatly han-idcapped han-idcapped during the past two weeks oy neavy snowiaiis in ijnue unun-wood unun-wood canyon, snowslides and the utter ut-ter impossibility of making regular trips with teams, from the mine to the valley smelters. The mining industry in the great territory contingious to Salt Lake came nearer to losing the government govern-ment assay office early in the present pres-ent month than it is pleasant to contemplate. con-template. The committee on appropriations appro-priations of the House of Representatives Represen-tatives made a determined effort to kill the office, first by failing to include it in its report to the House, and then by fighting it openly. 4 FOREST NOTES The work of classifying and opening open-ing to homestead entry such lands in the National Forests as are chiefly chief-ly valuable for agriculture is progressing pro-gressing rapidly. Already seventy seven-ty million acres have been covered by field examinations and the final reports acted upon. There were cut from the National Forests in the fiscal year 1916, 604,-320,000 604,-320,000 board feet of timber. Of this amount 119,483,000 board feet "was cut under free use privilege by 42,055 individuals. In all 10,840 sales of timber were made, of which 57 per cent were under $100 in value, val-ue, indicating the extent to which the homesteader, rancher, miner, small millman and others in need 'of a limited quantity of timber draw upon the forests. Tests at the Forests Products Laboratory, La-boratory, at Madison, Wisconsin, indicate that by the use of four additional ad-ditional nails in each end, an increase in-crease of 300 per cent in the strength of canned food boxes is secured. Approximately 30,390 acres of denuded lands within the National Forests were reforested in the fiscal fis-cal year 1916. The total number of trees planted was 6,146,637, while 8,280 pounds of tree seed were sown. ' There were 133,442 more cattle and horses, and 60 5,338 more sheep and goats using the National Forests In 1916 than in 1915. This increase 'was in spite of large eliminations of grazing lands from the forests. It is accounted for by the improved methods of handling the stock and by more intimate knowledge of the forage on the ranges and their carrying car-rying capacity. The number of fires suppressed on National Forest lands during the calendar year 1915 was 6.324. as against 7. 01S in 1914, and an average aver-age annual number of 4,759 during the past five years, says Henry S. Graves. Chief of the Forest Service, ! in his annual report just published, j While more than the average number num-ber of fires occured in the timbered (area burned over was but 155.416 acres, or 30 per cent less than the average per year for the period 1H11-1915 1H11-1915 inclusive. The average loss per fire was $60.41. Forty-four per i cent of the fires were confined to :areas of less than one quarter of an ' acre. . CRATER TO RE' MK It is expected that t' Crater wiH resume operations ve shortI'- th' with a small shift. MAMMOTXlXACT,VE I Because of .-anserial different the Mammo" cPer is PractHy (inactive. wo m n are a" tlt are now en---Ved- So date ip set fr ion. resum IS rJ.-i Jii4 luxUK es I Beaver Range, adjoining the Au-t Au-t telope Star on the south, ha"-.1" will operations with too Beaver Range Push flttriargely by Salt Lake parties. par-ties. STILL ANOTHER The name "Antelope" seems to be a popular one in mining circles. There is the now famous Antelope Star and within a mile there are the East Antelope, South Antelope and now the Antelope Copper Co., just oraganized by Provo people. The latter is just south of the Star. . KLONDIKE LEASED The Klondike mining claim in the San Francisco district; owned by Mrs. Edward Sackett. J. W. Ball and W. B. Hamilton, has been leased to Thos. Fotheringham and A. F. Mc-Cully Mc-Cully for one year. Work has begun be-gun about December 20. The Klondike Klon-dike is considered a very good property. prop-erty. It is said that $24,000 has been taken out of the mine, some cars netting $1000 each, Copper, silver, lead and gold averaging $31 a ton is the showing at a depth of 25 feet. It is the intention of the lessees to go down considerably deeper where it is expected lead and silver will be found in increased quantities. 4 EAST ANTELOPE ACTIVITIES The main tunnel of the East Antelope An-telope is now in 333 feet, says Superintendent Sup-erintendent McLease. About 145 ft. from the mouth they are sinking a two compartment shaft. Two south drifts are being run into the mountain moun-tain on parallel fissuses, about 200 feet apart. One drift is now in 45 feet and the other one 17 feet. It is expected that the ore body will be encountered in about 150 feet. A north drift is also being run, to catch a highly mineralized vein that promises good returns and which it in thought will be tapped at a depth of 110 feet. All workings are now showing excellent results and the management is very much pleased with the condition of the property. "SAFETY FIRST" SERMON Rev. MUtt S. Hughes, of Pasadena, Pasa-dena, California, desiring to write a sermon on "Safety First, wrote to Howard Elliott, traffic manager of the Salt Lake Route, who is also at the head of the "safety first" movement move-ment of that road, for information and pointers relating to that movement. move-ment. Mr. Elliot replies as follows:' Matt S. Hughes, D. D., fll Pastor, First Methodist church, -'e Pasadena, Calif. L" Dear Dr. Hughes: It is with a great deal of pleas I give you, as best I can, the inl mation desired in yours of yesi day. Ralph C. Richards, general cl agent of the Chicago & Northwes Railway, is generally called tb( ther of the safety movement. e told me that when he started e had no thought of its ever expaS into a nation wide movement'e said, "I merely wanted to ve something to the men of the western to remember me by." ,s now an established feature of'"'' important railway in the i,e States, with the exception Louisville and Nashville. I do not know how theirils) "safety first" originated. 1 notion is that it is the resuP j precept given the men to plai(! first and foremost in the m,,," of the railroad, and the phra''safj ty first" naturally fell from V 1 of the trainmen in their L ,t J)W reduce all conversation to est terms. The slogan has Cl' used so much that it is trei3ba You may purchase almos an cle from safety pins t susitii'1' bearing the two n-vjc words. tv first." When Dan" Willard.. 1 ","lP 'of the Baltimore & Ohio was ask where he pared safflty on the of requisits for proper operation ja railwav. he wrote above, the qubbt, "shove everything else, i lf"OW ,v eideavorh'.K to make !, si,u-rcl pHBSil),e, and minion a ' ves who are safe. , develop em- mice(,ocl lhe ', bcine pc , j.-e ever known - a f'a "V?rt be forgotten pat the u sb? , rally's W alwaya ;rt,s of ta rau e o .unibt. the required lV';, "ulj &be -ken. The tours s 11,11 1 ,ot sher in a 'safety n,."1 iuai ruiCs. It jliew era ,! '"'"njre of safety, just ; merely r-"10 lino niaking fea-as fea-as we 'f o"m, dan,.1RC U) freight, i jtureso los' teieRraphing. econom-iinnecssL' econom-iinnecssL' slalionary, and all that "thing. Us aim is to get era-on era-on be safe from impulsion ra-"l0than ra-"l0than compulsion, and in our ef-Uts ef-Uts to accomplish this, we appeal i'the man's love of life and limb uid family, of his regard for the wel-fare wel-fare of his fellow workman and the latter's loved ones, who would be deprived of a father's companionship companion-ship and the father's income, were he or his fellow workmen to forget '-or fail to follow the safe courso -n og their..af.gp,iraMy , ...."undertaking, reducing the personal per-sonal injuries to employes from 3 to 1 a day. Other roads have done the same. We have put in a good many safety devices, guards around the ' lathes and drills. Have purchased pur-chased goggles for the men to wear when working around emery wheels or chipp. - bolts or tool, and strange as li -v seem, we have to urge them to us&- Toggles. Since their purchase we have practically eliminated eye injuries, which used to average 12 per month. I enclose a couple of bulletins, one, No. 4 2, outlining the scope of the movement, and the other, No. 45, detailing the results of the first year's work. It is rather a strange coincidence that the man whose lame appears at the top of the list tf names of those submitting the npst suggestions, is tomorrow to be bu-ied from our church in South Paadena, Mr. E. M. Jcssup. The god that he has done will live af-terhim. af-terhim. J st now, an especial effort is being be-ing nade to direct the attention of the mblic to two paramount evils, trespssing on railway property, and a falire to use proper care when crossig the tracks of the railway at grade. The three tragedies. the Titani Eastland and Lusitania. pale ho insignificance, when compared com-pared the annual death toll from these to sources. I enclose copies of our kuu-i' ''n -ti-cup.. io; and crossing' ccifienls. both of which were wid' copied and quoted. The disregard?' (lie average individual for his on Ii.'s and that of others, in their 'Pat nient of railway tracks, is a litt' short of criminal. What is needl is either a Federal law againsfesspassing or a law in each state. Equally urgent is the necessity neces-sity ofutomobiles to do what street cars t compelled to do when approach ap-proach a- railway crossing, namely to st. look and listen, and in case this not sufficient, to get out and flag'ross. It is better to wait at a ray crossing than at a doctor's offli and better to be safe than to l,eirry (neither of these sayings is iginal with me). The Public Uties Commission of California is n earnestly considering the ques-f ques-f of grade crossing accidents, and in all such reforms, they are inting on the support of the press. :hink the pulpit can be made ually effective, and the co-opera-in of the clergy is devoutly to be shed. It is unfair to throw all 3 burden of protection on the car-irs; car-irs; certainly some responsibility aches to the people who cross cneir tracks, and a regard for the umose elementary principles of con-',duct con-',duct would stop this awful slaughter of human lives, if the public would 6nly slop' and think. I'm sure this material is ample as a nucleus for one of the powerful sermons which It is your custom to deliver. I hope I shall have the privilege of occupying one of the !)ws al the time your "safety first" sermon is preached, and if there is any further information you wish, I am yours to command. Sincerely, HOWARD ELLIOTT. HEW A HE OF lil'M, I'KDDLERS "Beware of bull peddlers." is .the advice 0f lhp agricultural department of Animal Husbandry of the !"tah Agricultural college. The new state, law that goes into effect January I. ISli. compels n wh() would use the public domain for pasture would provide one pure bred hull of recognized beef type for ear-h "rty, or fraction thereof, breeding ,ws. Because of this law many J' Urrupiiloiis dealers have been pick-rsit"'' pick-rsit"'' inrri"r IM1re bred stock in P-lbP' "'' Ul "Othing, and have 1 gelling this to farmers through- Titlpri' S,H"' at greatly increased edlto Mi"'v instances have come 'jgtl whe"Hr0 of lh'' 'olb.gr; experts of bit p''ri"r ,,linK '"'ve been sold I far beyond their worth. sum it iu |