Show AROUND THE STATE cedar city record the walker broth brothers ers of this place are steadily developing their copper claim north of iron springs the shaft is down over fifty feet and some good looking rock is being taken out tintic gintic miner the mammoth management have found the ore chute on the 2000 foot level where it shows as strong as on the three levels above the values are principally in gold and copper with some silver the mammoth certainly is a great mine mercur miner last week R W jenkins took all the machinery from the kismet mine on the west dip to five mile pass from where it was shipped by train to silver city it will be used at the highland boy of which thomas weir owner of the kismet is manager grand valley times S E mclean was down from castleton this week he informs us that the grand view shaft is down more than feet and in a body of good ore also that he has bonded his claims on little round mountain in castle valley for to be paid in ninety days stateline Stat eline sentinel the ophir people broke the record yesterday they hoisted thirty four skips of ore from the foot foo t level and then set up the machines and broke five feet more ground all this was accomplished by one eight hour shift each skip contained 2000 pounds of ore P park ark R record ecord president W 1 I snyder of the california returned to the city wednesday after spending several days at the mine the new concentrator for the california which has just been put in was started up monday the machinery worked splendidly without a hitch a fact that was very gratifying to all concerned it was expected to put two shifts ta at work today to day and keep the plant running right along the expectation being to run through about fifteen tons per day the california is expected to be on the dividend list before many months grand valley times the placer mining machinery that was put in operation last fall on the colorado river near dandy crossing has proved a success and several more dredge boats will be aptt put in operation operation as soon as they can be built gasoline is used for power and the present demand for it requires eight four horse teams for it constantly on the road bingham bulletin on the dump at the ben butler are tons of second class ore awaiting teams to haul it to dewey mill also in the bins are about sixty tons of first and second grade for shipment the first carries 60 to 65 per cent lead and the second 40 per cent east drift from tunnel level which struck a lean spot is now coming into fine ore again the whole breast being mineralized mine rai fourteen men are now employed st george falcon F A helm stopped in town over sunday on his way from copper mountain to salt lake city he had with him some very rich specimens of copper ore company working the claims claim on copper mountain was but recently formed and mr helm has been doing some development develop tn en t work which has shown up excellent ore he is highly elated with the prospect and no doubt the company will soon have a large number of men on the ground the ore will aul be shipped by way of st george to modena A small water jacket smelter is located on the property but will not be used ced cedar a r city record hans root and associates cia tes are ano pushing a tunnel in on the leigh pryor copper lode in the vicinity of iron springs for the purpose of striking the very rich stringer of copper ore at a sufficient depth to determine whether or not it increases in size as it goes down if it does mr root and associates will have all the money they want as the stringer is very rich assays essays having been obtained which run as high as 70 per cent leeds correspondent iron county record harry wilkinson charley hanson an and d wallace mcmullen three enterprising young boys of nf our town have lately been trying their luck at mining in the old mining aling region to the north of leeds they struck ore about three feet below the surface two fair samples ples were assayed one showing ounces the other the vein of ore still holds out and it is likel likely y they will have a neat little sum of money before long iong this shows what hoys boys can do and how much better it is to find employment than to loaf about the streets doing nothing mercur miner alex caldwell left on monday for the la sal mountains where he has been for two winters and where he is interested te to in a number of gold and copper properties per ties he had some fine samples of ore from froin that district he recently sold one of his claims for and has bonded several others for he says there are fine opportunities for prospectors down there and that the district will have a big boom this summer eureka reporter irwin H and 0 W spriggs left last thursday by team for the deep creek mining country near the utah nevada line they will be gone about six months and after prospecting in that section for a while will go north to the snake river in idaho the gentlemen have been working on a new process for placer mining and think they have a machine which will save considerable sid erable more gold than any now in use they will try the rew new process in the sands of snake river tintic gintic miner george adams who a short time ago go purchased the control of the da dagmar gmar eureka on the west side aide of the west cable gulch is infusing some of his spirit into the work of opening up a new bonanza the loo foot shaft has been re timbered and the grading finished for av gasoline hoist which has been purchased the management will not at present prospect the upper levels where small quantities of good lead ore made its appearance several years ago but will at once sink the shaft |