Show L CONDITIONS ITI AT ATT STATELINE T AND f FAY I Judge Grant II N Smith Returns I I From the Well Known Camps Camp CampIn In the South IMPROVEMENTS BEING MADE MADEt At t Several of the Larger Properties Sinking at time the Johnny Great Changes Chan Changes cs I at Mine Judge Grant H 11 Smith has hilI returned homo haute from a II trip to southern Utah and Nevada where ho has hns beep been giving ing his attention to mining Interests Ho Visited l PitY Kay and ami the campa of ot that vicinity ami and brings with him hint very ery cheering news front from that quarter The rho year ear has opened o nod with Indications very cry bright for tor an unprecedented dented season of ot activity All of oC tho limo principal mines are preparing for a vigorous campaign while much will be bedone done by prospectors ro I towards the open opening opening ing up of at new properties At the Johnny mine mimic the sinking of ot tho the shaft hult to tho the foot level U Is In III progress anti and will be completed within the next ten tell days when drifting will commence towards the tho large oro omo holy body I disclosed In the upper workings The rho I mill I iq III closed cloned down at nl the time present pending the tho Installation of or a n 1 new slimes attachment to the cyanide department The Tile plant will be In ill operation again In about thirty days Over at Fay tho the Newport A Nova Neva Novada du da company COlli pall operating tho 1110 mine tins has been beep installing n new net v cyanide c cold old nide e department d lop and has hilS limo thu work al ul almost almost most completed complete The developments In this title mine mineo during the th pa past t sixty Ity days day IhA lodge judge e states stales have luVe more inure than thull come up to the expectation of ot tho the management The Tho property looks many limes better now n It did dill then Ihen Three large largo parallel veins have been acen developed In III which tho the company has plenty of oC ore oret At t the tho Irus mine which Is In being con conducted ducted under tho the management of ot Judge Smith conditions con are aro good imil 1111 the tho forces employed there are Just setting getting Into ore are on the level Tho rho Shawmut Nevada Novada Mining company owner of tho the none mine has hils been making some ome alterations in ht inUs InUs Us Its mill which tints time the tho plant was closed It started I up IP again last night or at nt least Icat was svgs WILL NOT NUl HAPPEN Federal Lend bend Concern Wilt Will Not Nol Control Utah Mines lines mi tin Authority A well welt known mining engineer who considerable to do with Ith the tho properties of ot tho Federal Lend com company company pany pang In ht tho the Couer dAleno mining re region region gion In tn speaking of at the report Cohort 1 lIHt circulated Intel sonic some time ago that negotiations were wore pending towards the absorption of ot I tho tiro Silver Silver King and mines millos at lit Park City by the tho Federal concern declared a n few rew days dnA ago ogo that Ito lio be ho believed loved the deal It Ir there is 18 one will fall nil of ot consummation While tho the federal company he said fin Ill Is III u a I very strong BironI concern It has boa never been Its It II policy to pa pay out money for tho the mines miMe It has been b ell taking over It being tho the custom to tho the owners of oC properties by giving thorn them stock Mock In return for tor their theil original hold holdings holdings ings This method has hus been Jen pursued In the tho north und and It U would be bo a n new lIew departure If It It was 1118 not In tho the ease cage of o securing control of ot tho time Utah mines continued the th engineer but I um tun not nol reedy ready to tomake tomake make myself believe that the owners of or orthe the tho big Park City bonanzas would no ac accept anything but thin tho th cash Tor Jor that t reason 1 I do da not anticipate of ot these theA In III the tho Immediate future scheduled to do so no Its Ill capacity li is tuns tons per day clay da At tho the property which was tuns recently acquired by the company ore IB Is being quarried on Oil tho limo surface anti and sent direct to the I mill maul |