Show binh yi nh I 1 99 THE STATE 0 0 j 4 1 bingham bulletin elmer hill is working a small force on the doughnut Tough nut at the mouth of markham Mark bam with encouraging 0 I 1 results richfield Kich field reaper lorenzo nielson wa wag down from the L N group this week the new shaft he reports is down 50 feet the vein is still of a good width the latest assay gave 48 ounces in silver and 2070 in gold per ton moab T times mes byron davis who is driving a tunnel on the little dot property p at the head bead of castle creek came down the first of the week to visit his family he brings down some very fine looking ore taken from the face of the tunnel now in fifty feet park record frank lake this week received as handsome a specimen of silver ore as we have ever seen it came from goose creek in boxelder Box elder county near the idaho line the specimen is almost pure wire silver and was sent to mr lake by his brother who is working in that section gintic tintic tin tic miner victor holmquist and geo mckenzie began s toping monday on a seam of very fine galena ore on the foot level their work will be watched with interest by many people in silver city who have faith caithin fai thin in the picnic mine and who believe that it will yet equal the record of the Swan seas which adjoins on the north cedar city record F M lathrop manager of the ophir mine at stateline Stat eline prior to the election of A AM M johhson is again installed in the position and is making active preparations to put on a force of men and beo begin 0 in work within a months time already most of the old bills have been paid off which were left due when the institution was closed down milford times captain T F of idaho and H AT crowther the salt lake expert came do down wn wednesday with E B palmer of salt lake for the purpose of examining the gooe gogebic r ble group upon which mr palmer holds bolds hn an option the gogebic lies near the 0 K and is owned by richard mclaughlin the visitors were favorably impressed with the property cedar city record active work is going on at the Home homestake stake mine the main shaft is down about two hundred feet and now some drifting is being done along the ore veins an assayers outfit has recently been purchased and no no doubt some surprising quotations and figures will soon be given out for some time now the company has been paying about a thousand dollars a month for hand hire and other expenses y gintic tintic miner superintendent J H mccrystal dnn announces denounces ounces that beginning with the first of march the eagle and blue bell will enter the shipping lists with renewed vigor and will be able to send out a carload a day two good will be drawn upon one on the foot level furnishing a very good and regular grade of gold quartz in which are frequent fat streaks from time to time below on the is a large body of copper carrying a good percentage of both the precious metals with plenty of sloping ground ahead and above all the dead work incident to connecting this level with the by means of an incline has been completed and a skip installed for the rapid transit of the ore milford times angus buchanan and A M ross owners of the admiral dewey group in the star district propose to know what there is in the property before they quit they have been running a tunnel for the past year and will continue work for another year it is now in feet A fine body of ore crops out above them and there is every reason to believe that the tunnel will strike it at depth cedar city record john H adams started down to st george last tuesday with a lo 10 load ad of lumber he was accompanied by mr keller the machine repairer and mining expert mr keller says that the members of the denver company for whom he has been waiting hae ha ie gone to st george and that he will meet them at that place after looking over the mines in that vicinity they wa will 11 continue south to survey his property in the grand canyon moab times alexander caldwell came down wednesday from his mining camp at the head of deep creek on the east slope of mt he has finally cut the lead he has been driving for having driven a tunnel about feet to reach it the ore looks all right but an assay is the only thing that will prove its value and it will be several days before returns are received A number of mercur mining men are interested in this property also robert J robinson of moab bingham bulletin the main tunnel of the york mine at breast is now showing nearly three feet of galena and carbonate that according to assays essays contain 40 to 47 per cent lead Q 6 ounces silver and some gold per ton drifting has been done for 50 feet on this kind of ore the streak having been reported to be about 18 inches wide two weeks ago since which it has steadily widened this with other developments made at the york during the past few months makes it possible for that property to be a lively and profitable shipper this season castle dale Pro progress aress james jeffs came home from grand crand county monday 13 bringing ringing r some samples of ore from claims recently located about 25 miles south of thompsons Thomp sons yesterday he received assay returns from one sample showing a value of in gold the most satisfactory thing about this result is that mr ift jeffs states that the sample was an average one of a 12 foot vein or blanket deposit that he found and stuck the pick into a few times he thought it might contain some mineral and is agreeably surprised at the theo result he traced the lode fora for a lonz ion s distance and talbott Talbot fc jones and hunt are working on the same lead about 4 miles east they are some 40 feet fe et deep on a claim and have had as essays assays says run running niDO as high hiah as in gold milford times contractor sorensen last lait week completed the shaft house engine house and other buildings for thin the new b hoist boisi at the estelle the machinery is all in place and everything is now ready for deep sinking the plant is 25 horse power and the buildings are pronounced the most complete and best built in this section this is the first steam hoist in star district but others will follow the estelle now has a fine water supply from a well driven in the edge of valley a short distance away A good flow of water was struck at a depth of forty feet and is forced up to the mine by a steam pump milford times the people of chicago will have a chance to see what beaver county has in the way of copper veins C H smith brought down a chunk of ore from the copper mountain mine wednesday that in point of size equals anything ever sent out from this section it weighed pounds and mr smith stated it was just about half of the original piece broken down in the mine it came from the foot level lev eland and shows red oxide of copper black copper and other forms for 1148 of the metal mr smith thinks the chunk will average 30 per cent the specimen will be placed on exhibition at chicago |