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Show 4 . L i ; e' V Kiwi, IhIiIIm Mark (MlatlaM a tea, 8o praanOaaai fast sum hem MUEBAi WESTERN MINERAL ; SURVEY himw. nrb mk ml irln naiimi II WMtcra Ntala. (Ml Ml rtanrtal nl Published Every Friday;- VOL. NO. 9. NO. 22. - - Features FOR $L00 YOU RECEIVE fall raaaa aabaarlatlaa (a A tfea Western Mineral Surrey ra tlia la (rat Mail Uk will aaat thrall ailalac all tba Iaiaraaaaataia Waal.ail ail Ml at Mines, Shale Oila SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MAY 31, 1929. $1 YEAR; 50c. 6 MOS.; 5c COPY. New Mining Booklet Is Publishei 4 Cottonwood Company Installation of New Com- Company. Openinff Up ImportMineralization at Two Proapecting pressor Will Permit ant . Mineral Center. Increased Operations. Pointa in Property. Biff Praise Connor Receives Merited Birdseye View Of Industry Given Company. e A great religious of the first location teacher liui ever filed in the state. This said : Remember, k la more;, bit neThis Is dated Blnghum Canyon, Septemed to give than to receive.1" ber 7, 19(3, and la signed by the Invocation is used in many churchTwo drifts are being advanced Sloping from eight faces of or Development of tha high grade es Just before the offertory 4n the members of the Jordan Silver ora body opened up by the Howell la under way at the Horn Silver In the Park Standard property, ad- - j hope that the reading of tniiatruih Mining company. Among (he sigmine of the Tintic Dead ernpany In tight-fisteFork South d cause the to nal urea are those of George the Mining company at Frisco, Beaver County, IT ui l ac- Joining the Valeo on the east side may who mads the first discovery of the Big Cottonwood fog a die cording to Manager A. E. Kipp, of Park City, one along the contact loosen up. It might be ajsa uned Is lance of 40 feel along Ita atrike hae and production la averaging a car- of the Janney quartzite and the. as an objurgation to thorn inhabi- In llinghum. General Connor Silver King limestone bed of the tants of Utah, who have iaigreut also named as sharing In this been delayed by bad weather, ac- load a day. ol 23 r others deal to say about the prosperity agreement along with At present the company la hoist- Park 0'ty formation and the otlr.-cording to President and Manager mining, and but iscanda- - his men. Thomua Walden, ing 100 tone dally In its twj com- aiong the contact of the Weber ut Utahlittle I he for The booklet. material and fur time praD and tbe Park City forma- luusly With no atorage facilitlea either partment shaft dally, fifty per cent quert-ltremembrance of the man tp fchotn which was written by Gall Martin, underground or on the aurface. of which la ore. On Saturday, June tion. . the credit belongs for founding the editor ; thn Western Mineral SurIn tie Janney drift, strong Hr. Walden anya it la utterly Im- 1. this rate of production will be vey, continues by giving un outmetal Industry. I which replaces tho increased to 300 tone, with pruduc-- t practical to Mart mining the Most appropriately, Ihlaj year's line of present and past history (t on of ore averaging 100 tone, said limestone, la being followed. This depnalt, earn pica of which Incondition Is extending for four or Chamber of Commerce 'mining eurh Important mining camp, aa high aa 11 to 191 ounce Mr. Kipps. limestone and i booklet acknowledges this failure cluding the outstanding developof Oliver to the ton, 17 to 10 per By that date, the company will five feet Into the ments of recent month. Author(n tha part of the stale cent lead and 3.77 to 0.06 per cent have Ita new compressor in com- apparently inte- - rlfylng as the fora debt of gratitude to General 1'. itative statistics on the irorlurtloncopper. Thla work will be under' mission so that development head- mation la followed to tne northwest, E. Connor, and points hoar:inuch and dividends of each rump artaken immed-atelthat the road la ing! can bo doubled up on. A new according to Manager Newton Dun-yothe present generation owes to ii Iso tubulated along with totals tor carload of mine cars will a La, liava open for haulage. and wisdom at the the last sixty years. It waa thla etrlke In December been .delivered end put lino the At present, the company Is cross- the foresight A new feature la the foreword commander. that put a totally new aspect on mine, making the second carload cutting the formation to arrive at an Union Governor Geo..-- - II. Dern, In of by Out of chance the discovery months. lam two In the of In an unusual condition the big Cottonwood purchased development rxplanator. Utah which the facts concerning The mom important showing re- Just encoun'ered, tho exposura of a galena boulder by a area. The exposure of ore carryIndustry are uubstan Gated and an 901 on at ago," years Bingham normallimestone where (( ing aurh phenomenal valuea at a cently opened up la atope quartxite, north-wepaid to the pari says the booklet in sketching a acknowledgment . tha the 000 level. Jum fifty feet point farther north ly belongs. along scientist and technical man "has the of the old store. Drifting has Utah, 150 feet history oi mining In about other Cardiff contact than ever found In the drift, In ha played perpetuating tne been done for th'rty feet n ore. west, where the Weber quartalte at grown the Utah mining Industry before, renewed faith in tha of the state's leading Headprosperity of a carloads metal with total two shipped. and production forIts contact with the Park City of thla region and again been started on th 1000 mation la being explored, the 1.725,433 and (313,500,000 In industry. headproved the geolog cal importance ings have 1100 Metallurgilevels to rut. tho dividends. Beaching backt as it calUnder the heading, of exploration at favorable plaS and tha struck haa several the exclusive stateing does to the days when every out- mentProgress,'1 downward extension of this depos- carrying Hur-ve- y near the overtbrust. a mineralization Mineral of Western the assaying crop was likely to be a bonanza The high grade streak waa fol- it. believed to b the continuation of May 4 that Utah would soon quarter of an ounce of silver and and faulted old etope. famous 'an of the 'embryo every prospector lowed to tho northeait where It waa one of the Urgcent lead. have In the 000. Two other 2.1Atper millionaire, the history of; Utah's ent plant operation, cut by a foul: and displaced to the Just above in the world tor the the Park King, where Mr. Dun-yo- n chief of ore are being bodies a relates many industry north. A drift to tho north prov- strong oxidized vouched ores of la also directing development, on the 000 level. strange Incident and poaaethes a for as follows: ed that tha ahowlng had crossbeen worked 700 level. In 700,. twelve strong fissure sons Is being On remarkable the characters. of "Utah engineering ability and level In the gallery merely truncated and that It la feet of e sine ora. tha cut on tho 300 foot Soldier Leads Way.' f continuing to tha northeaat In tha will return the company enterprise has contributed genof Weber quartzite. In sinking the net E. one of P. To wall these, General, fissure was enterhanging quartilte aa well aa erously to ths development of floa ton. Is being developed shaft, a 35 foot considerable to tho southwest In the footwall about Iron. Connor, brilliant soldier and vet- tation, whereby the laws of graved that carried bean carloads have Five shipped eran Indian fighter, the Uts min- ity ere defied, heavy particles are limestone la a good. Assays of the from this stops In the lest fortn'ght Sixty feet north, the crosscut has ore In the quartzite to tha northindustry owes a greater debt made to float and the lighter seven Tar loads since the first struck another fiesare that shows ing and of gratitude than to any ,?other. gangue or waste tq sink, and meteast are taid to have carried highone spot of heavy sulphides. two weeks ago. etrlke, that thafc early als magically summoned or repeller values In silver than those taken shaft a distance of Notwithstanding On tha 600, In (07 a. high grad ' South of thaeast-weMormon settlers in 1151, sydecads ed at will. The world's first of the ore In tha limestone. st .30 an fissure (0 ore feet, from body., galena shlprqpnts flotation plant-was . As soon. .as work aadheunra xaa which operate fist- wde Wte tetnii.-r.yMtutting Territory, had discovered coal, ed at Midvale in Balt Lake valley. ba resumed, tha company plans to (40 a ton Is Is driftlrg ou. A second accompany developed, being Iron and No and an en deposits content with t Gratae to the contact, where It la to Mr. Klppa. fissure, 100 feet couth, shows tea produced sufficient quantities of viable place in the'winning estimation of believed the.--e la a good chance for cording to twelve feet of Iron. waa local the It for metal needs, world tho for develop engineering finding a bedded deposit In the foresight and enterprise of the ing methods for refining sulphide footwall limestone. Drifts along l'nlon Commander that laid the ores, Utah metallurgy haa advancthe atrike win also be advanced. foundation for the Industry. ed a step further and before the Preeent development of the HowGeneral Connor had not been summer Is over Salt lake valley ell Mining ermpany consists of In Utah long before he sensed the will have at lrnt two custom drifting along tha Cardiff opportunity for building up plants for trentln;; oxidized ores, contact toward Howell community with Its prosperity the first of their kind in the ground. At tho last word from the firmly based on tbe production of world. mine, tale and quartzite waa show, metal. Information brought to him Other subdivisions treat of oil ing in the fare. At almost any by trappers and Indians confirmed drilling In l'l- ' , the coal industime, the mipany expects to strike this belief. In every manner, be try. sail, oil uhl-?- . some one of the fissures the Ever-anThe encouraged prospecting by his sol- potash, radio active ores. the Bal-- McKee or the AmHe in diers. mines opened up. progress registered by erican Con. that carried good ore n bubetwe-other and Rtate United camps. the 8tockton, Ophir, in the quartzite in the upper work-Ing- a Steady progress la being made Two feet of ore has been opened He built the first commercial reau of mines and the University In the development of the Utah smelter Rtockton, and In recog- of Utah department of mining anil up in the 505 devel of the Bo- nition ofat his describforesight and inde- metallurgical research Bunker Hill Mining company's nanza Mining company's lease In fatigable efforts on behalf of the ed. showing the wide benefit renine of northwest miles property, Park Blnghum ground adjoining development of Utah mineral re- sulting from this procedure. Crantevllla In the Free Coinage the United Kiates mine, at Bing- sources, he has been honored by Those, dealring copies of this district. Miners' Canyon. Tha tun- ham. Considerable importance is later generations by the title, The valuable booklet containing full to the strike becuuae the Father of Utah Mining. nel has been advanced 407 feet atached Information atatlstlcaf and otherand in but 35 fuel from Its first ore occurs In the "B" Umeatone, Historic Notice Shown. wise, may secur them by writing handof of to of to number V. J. C. Reb-hola to addition General Secretary In productive large J. Long, quantities objective, according vice president nnd manager of the mineral in the United M Lutes mine, some pictures of Utah mining chamhe- - of commerce, Bait company. The face of the adit, fol- and also because It is associated properties, the booklet contains a Lake City, Utah. lowing a contact of blue and while with one of the main fissures. Two assays of the ore were taklimestones, la shot through with en as scion aa the fissure was enquartz. Iron, and calclte. The first showed 11 A survey and mapping of the countered. cent lead, 4.7 ounce silver, .03 Organization of the Union Asso- property was recently compIeteJ per ounce gold and ( per cent zinc, ciated Mines company has been that the second Jrhlch shows should be reached 407 feet and the second 13.0 per cent lead, completed to carry on development Inin tho cumi-any'south of the present face and sec- 7.1 ounces silver, .0( ounces gold properties Cottonond ono about 100 feet south. Both ind 0.4 per cent zinc. cluding the Utah Maji-stiOfflcluie of the company, who wood King, the Twin Ieaks in the of these objectives, productive on Tin-tic the surface, will be cut at a ver- returned from the property TuesBig Cottonwood and the West day, reported two feet of the rich districts. Steps arc being taken tical depth of (00 feel. to list this stock on tho Salt Lake At a reqgnt special meeting of ore waa visible after a five-fothe director. the board wee re- round had been shot and before Exchange. From For the time being, develop- organized. Joseph H. Marshall, the waste had been removed, and Crew on Ground Pulling Production ment will be centered on opening president of the Fisk Ophir Min- that the fissure was six feet wide. Face Galena A drill hole put in at right angle Preparatory Casing presiup the highly mineralized fissures ing company, was elected proved in lie Weal Tintic property. dent; John V. Long, vice presi- showedore.an additional four feet of On Hole. 900 Foot Level. In the Simpson tango of mountains dent, treasurer and manngsr; John aolld Underreaming The Bonanza company has 1,005 2 miles from Lucerne, the nearesr 8. Dixon, secretary. Charles D. feet of ground on the strike of the railroad point. Rooklldge, H. K. Barnes, Robert In an upper tunnel, two north-sout- h T. Johnson, and William T. Al- new showing. Is On tho tunnel Lvel, ors lias Eight feel of silver-ha- d KEMMERLR, Wyoming Offi- bssn drifting to cut anfissures lmark comprise the other director. the company and one east-weexposed In the Bingham MetRi.rgc Oil other large fissure in tho B' lime- cials of the Ogden-L- a have been exposed hi a quartxlta-lim- e als property surrounded by ih stone. shalo formation. Three raises company have decided to roiitinuo Utah Cupper, the Untied (Stales have been put up on strong minnear Off on La well, its mine, and the old Highland Boy Trip. Barge drilling eralization and some ore has hnen On Way Bingham according to Superhere, now down 4550 fort, to reach at taken out for shipment, according H. N. Merry, secretary of the lie intendent Robert Goodwin. to the management. B. G. Hansen, brother of George productive sands believe-- ' National Equipment company. Thcle ore, which fa going up. The company now plana to run Walter C. Curry of the Hewitt T. Hanson, president and general below the Hilliard forma' u"i. down and ahead to the south down the hillside Gutta Fercha Rubber company, in a nape.- - of the Utah Houihern Oil a tunnel (00 of Ogden, strong. I associated with Roulh a more advantageous point to and James A. Flint, of J leaver, company. Is In Half Lake on a Adam Ialteraon, Jr., and heav- No. 3 fissure at a puint 300 feel in of crosscut tho Ked llawk. Paymaster general manager of the Tr..ylnr operations, charge LoIn Mr. Ilunscn who lives visit. , was south of the shaft on the 900 levand the North and South fissures Vibrator company, started on an gs n. Kansas, tho pro;-'''In interested will attend the el. irodiiclinii ha been at a depth of 300 fed lower than automobile tour of the northwest Khrincrs' convention In Lo Ange- ily in Kcinnicrcr the first ot the week from thi rhunnel on seven taken levtho upper tunnel. A compressor last week. 16 Honolulu. then on and to go May les, that announced and els. On the (UO, t lip miiierllzation and other power machinery will be the to OMsemblrd pull was crew In the near future. Inst tilled to ho Iraoi but on the "0 over 4V8-lcasing and undiT-riaiMines (100.000 In ore wo atoped-YaluThe Union' Associated hoi- -, to which the of tho bottom Is for (750,000 capitalized company of the ore. Mr- - Goodwin oc will Cz-lcosing depth the divided Into 3.000-00on Wednesday night, will carried and cemented, I pi- parntory reported from shares with a par value of j 13 to (3.50 a ton in that average It to more drilling. cents a share. Officers twenty-fiv- e ID ounces of sllter and from v m gold, difficult no will lc A. 8. there follows: sa are and directors 15 to 20 per cent 1ealtin M. the an-caning larger manager; Parry, president Two carload have hern stp;icd Miss from 2.8(9 fett. Wn- the K. Harding, vice prealdcnt; from the new showing anil arc be- has already been carried. Dr. fe Helen Hurley, secretary: (U which hoisted m the 800 Three showing of oil already ing ll. Murphy; James E. Hhlrlda; Ostunwith the NiNcara. been encountered in the 4.550 connect car . Chytraua, treasurer. Mi itra nunc. nel Members of the Utah section of and tireless support of the In- have once at 2.(00, the United of the at feet, of the research 1.203 and the third nl I.300 the American Institute of Mining stitute The Hlngham Mei.il lia been t. ore of and Metallurgical Engineers at the work It fostered and the Inter- The the a consistent producer oil the the deeper All of Its output h.-como from acorganization's annual dinner at the change of experiences bg men, who gravity and gasullno conP-n'- , were A. Norden. genfundamental Alta club elected J. The the porphyry. to analysis eral manager of thn I'lnh Ape data of great valuo to the Indus-trt- cording To the north In the Utah Cop1( first Oil Is or 3S.0I - gravity, 30 of Mining company, president; Robert per tinproperty a large cent gasoline; per Mr. Huiiclirlt contributed considof the r-lead Wallace, superintendent ore has hern opened up slop-re- d end brrn gna-Ihas cent 20 Sinking per gravitv. to the evening by erable humor In the limestone. The ore was flrt Central Midvale smelter ef the andUulted in the Nevada third 41.50 gravity end- -- i per struck Minrending of the operations of the the Cmeltlng, Refining In thq lealm. ly tunnel of showNone of thproperty, Htatecompany, cent eontpnny's Mining gasoline. Eel C. on T. famoiiH mine His of vim president. the Utah Copper company and exsouth of Ileowawe, Nevada, at a ing ing were sufficient for a secretary-tof Lord the was Winkle Van Devonshire, tun(rare, well. In other Wyoming fields posed laler in the Armstrong are depth of 30ii feot In the Incllne-- l reasurer. England as written down by an thn Wall (Oil feet lower. Shipment I nsl, encountered sand Creek shaft and drifting started, Hcrord Gentlefor olwerver In tha 17(0 Frederick W. Bradley, president averaging around ?ni ton daily. Ing to decretory F. D. IUrglii-hothnof the national organisation wan a man's Magaslr.a of nndon. The Just below the Hilliard hnlc, parof honor. Uther guestM were nalva description of underground ticularly Knit Creek, the mo'. Proguest and oral mile north and raat of the Drifts are being driven east and laifayette Hunrlictt. Gov. George II. operation, labor condition, meth- lific producer In Wyoming, n Id present lot llargc production. west along the rnl.u-- t nf the nnd Frank M. Kniltli. Mueller od nf handling ami redlining the It I the belief or the Ugd-nIern. r I'm-h As anon a the rusing I and quart to opi r. up a e ninniigrr of the Uiinkrr Hill nnd ore fnrnlHlied a wide contrast wiin Itargc people thut Wiill riicninifi-rct wilt cemented st Him butlnni of the of in the preeent Bill It vim equivalent rlaa ef fissure jirmln-'llvprocednro. Mr. BradThe nddrem of wslcume wa hy their drill once the llllllard hole, drilling will he rruined. The on- - on I lie Mirfiii-"- , t'ninir d'Alene, of wlil-'ahala Is penetrated. company will run on tour and promade hy Goernnr George II. One of the first ulijii'tlvi-- to ley Is the hend. Clinrl dwelt on the Importance of -. Bargs ceed a fast aa who The f thn Mr. Bradley confined his aildre will be the Utah fineurto telling of the Instil ufn'a activi- Utah 'mining. John 31. RoutwelL la unqueatlonahly the innsl Impo- Mahoney of I'ort IVahard, Ore, from which ore, carrying good valand Al Horton uo in charge of the uea and sliver and lead, waa ship- ties and the needa of the organisa retiring chairman of the see lion, rtant of tha entire Id Barge area, Is sev- - drilling. aa this well, Bea. tion. Uo made a pica fur loyal preiilded. ped by Iao La kit. im-tlr- Os-llvl- c, ! uon-ferru- flu-au- ra n. y - soldier-prospect- or st lt.il vug-hol- Mines Good Tunnel to be Run to Ex Arrowhead Metal Com plore Fissure System pany Going at Work At Considerable Depth. On Intensive Scale. Property. Grade of Ore From es flo-tti- nn 1 high-grad- til - ai. Grey Eagle BUTTE, ontana. Officers of the Basin Montana Tunnel company held a meeting at the Butte office of the company. Those present were William II. Uux of New Turk, president; Iinvld J. Charles, president of Miner Ravings Hnunk and Trust company; Bsmuel Barker, Jr., vice Park Klaora operation! are to begin at once, according to President and Manager C. M. Goddard. For the present, activity will be of the centered on development north group of 10 claims surrounded by Premier, Mayflower, Valeo and Park Standard holdings. Previous to this time, no work has ever been dons in the properly save some superficial prospecting which has uncovered promising mineralisation. However, to the south and west, the Valeo haa had a considerable production of rich ore from the quartalte while to the south and east, eom good allowing have re cently been opened up In the thorn gr0Up, according to Mr. God-o- f rrk president and manager, and II. J. Fennlmore, assistant treasurer, all of whom are directors of the corporation. The company has been actively developing lls Grey Eagle prupert) st the northern end of its large estate east of Bgsin and has reached the point where shipments arc in ore assaysight. ing K.5 per cent lead, 14.4 per cent zinc, .8 per cent cupper and 11-ounces of silver to the ton. is nuw being stored, directors slated. Tins comes from the first floor a raise from above the 4UU lew; about 10U feet to tha east of the winze which recently was optn.d and encountered ore on the (vu level. A few weeks ago copper ore ut shipping grade was unexpected- ly opened north of the lead zinc-, bodies on both the 400 and 61)0 levels of the Gray Eagle.It is proposed lo open the ore bodies south of the Grey Eagle and extending to the main Butte-Helehighway by means of a long tun- nel and regarding thla project a letter mailed to stockholders last week auted: Your company recently entered; Into ta contract with a represents tlve group of financiers. This con- tract provides for the purchase ol Buck-produ- l.OOOJkoO lead-sllv- ct da-po- sit I ! shares of our treasury - residents of over-thru- Good Ore Showing m a. Completes Survey Opened In Upper Of Mine Workings Level of Bonanza 1 . Big Cottonwood And West Tintic or any or all of them. The momi accruing from tbe sale of tlies shares of treasury stock will be more than twice as much as' will be required for the entire cost of running our proposed l(,0uv foot tunnsl and. In addition, will place uo In a financially impregnable position to accomplish everything we have planned in the way of mining development. This In; turn should place us in a position to make application to list our shares about Sept. 1, 1929." Mine Operations Good s 1 ot Started 8Foot To st Wed. fct n n. e Utah Engineers Entertain hl n. - I "-- l J'"r-ryi- Noted Operator At Dinner 1 Nevada Central Drifts Two Days - - Progress BUTTE, Montano Development work In th Basin Cataract property at Basin haa shown excellent to results, according V. C. Hodge, general manager, who busileccntly was a Butt ness visitor trom Basin. About twenty-fiv- e men ora employed underground, most of tbs work being dons in ths When interviewed by a representative of the Montana Daily Press, at th Finlen, Mr. Madge said that a vein of (10 or has bssn opened in ths Kaly Extension and that several smaller veins bav been encountered in a raise being driven from the 200-foIsvsl to connect with No. 1 shaft A Byron Jackson pumping plant haa recently been installed, tha first of ita kind in Montana. It is electrically driven and any stoppage of power can not flood tbs pump a ths motor is on th surn. six-fo- ot face. Asked when the big mill would start. Mr. Madge said that the treatment of ora would not begin until a big reserve tonnage had been blocked out in the mine. W are perfectly satisfied with th showing sines development work started.'' hs sold. Ths managing head of the Basin property was connected with th Anaconda company In the days of Marcus Daly and h spent six years In Siberia and the Ural mountains for American mining interests, silve- - dy r l- s let d parlance sod it all the urro-n- dl Strong Showing Cz 1 new shaft on th-- j Rlnklng of property of the Capitol Hill Mining company, in th 8U. district, fiva miles southwest of Milford, Utah, haa been dewarded with a promising showing. At a depth of but 33 feet, the company opened up six to sight inches of ors assaying 40 cents in gold, 23.0 ounces of silver. 20.1 per cent lead, and 2.3 per cent copper. Considerable work ha been don ths company t) by dots in ita property of 14 btlins. Not satisfied with reulu, official decided to start development In a totally new area. It la In the Star district net fur from that Moscow the Capitol Iilll Silver Lead Mines company Is opening up a large stops or silver-lea- d carbonate ore at depth of feet below the surface. 1,250 renorted that la g territory haa now been ir a ted. OfTiccij and directors of the com apy are. E. fc.iUIda. T. 0. ' Wrl'J. L Delair Nel Monson and Ed Swindler, ad of Provo, Utah, and John Reuter of Loe Anare under geles. Mina I tha direction of Mr. T. G. Wright ' i L - ope-itlon- Data s On Option Taken By Missouri Company Is Gwen The Consolidated and Smelting company has exercised its option for control of the Big Mtasouti Mining company's Portland Canal property, north of Stewart, Britlab Columbia. Acquisition by tha Con. M. it S. company of 2(5,000 shares of the Buena Vista Mining company, organized to operate the property. Is reported in the annual report of the Big Missouri Mining company. The latter corporation acquired 235,000 aharee of the seme. In light of th fact that Duncan Salt Lake operator, Is Big consulting geologist for th Missouri Mining company and that the company has recently financed development in the Spruce MounNevada J. K. tain district, the deal has an ImWBNNOMUCCA. Kerr, of Kerr and cumpary, San portance. Concerning its activity iq of the Elko county, Nevada, camp, FrancUco, California, sponsor the Minerals and Mctul Holding ilia annual report of the Big Missouri (lining company haa thla t I'orp., reports that the company has mads two discoveries of Im- say: the year 1923. officer portance on it properly north of u mx fool of During here, one Is said fu the Big Missouri Mining com- white a vein ot allophnnc,'' pany entered into negotiations with purj mineral, soft and fine us wheat tliu Sprues Mona re li Lead Silver flour. The other discovery is a SO Mining company, a Novada corporfoot outcrop of cinnabar. The tun- ation. for it property, situated in nel. already driven 1 60 feet will the Spruce Mountain mining dissoon reach the vein at a vertical trict, Elko count, state of Nevada, ISO miles west of Salt Lake City, depth of about 191 fret. to th Salt Utah, and tributary Lake Valley ameltars. Thee negoReturns to Nevada. tiation! rcuIlRd In the organlalng I'aul Bill Ingsley. Salt Lake con- of th Missouri Monarch Mine the 'awe ot Jh sulting geologist, was ii 111 city company und-over th week end but r, turned state of Nevada for 1200,001, die a mine vided into 2,000,000 fharco. Your on Tuesday to examination al Eureka. Nevada. company secured an option to purri chase 1.100.000 shores of the Monarch Mines company for (100. Pin, the money to be paid In a required for development work; rxrepting that a cash payment of was mad SIS. 000 October 15, I92S; (20.000 of which was used for liquidating certain indebted- neaa and the (10.000 is ot' ba expended In equipping and developing the property. The Big Missouri company haa thus far mad commerce throuhg th courtesy of Mining payment In the amount of (57,100 Emil J. N. Cut, assayer, whose fath- for which have acquired 175 er waa superintendent of the Re- 000 share they nf the capital stock V ward mine when Hoover was em- th Mlsooprl Monarch Mines comployed there. pany. out of the 1,100,000 shares The or that will go Into the desk stipulated In the option agreement. to be sent to the president An eddltinnal option waa acquirweight I reputed to hue been mlnc-- ed hy the Missouri Monarch Mines NeIn th Hooter about time wits company on an adjoining properly known a the Bronco group of vada couniy. A repltru of the original gold claims for (11,000, which la to b flake found by James Marshall will jvjkl for in four equal paymenta auartvsUacro-m- e vu a period of lea year fvum Jwa- he mounted oik ' ua& 1. 1(39, nlo Boa. New Ores Opened Up in Nevada Mine Quartz Desk Weight To Remind President ol Early Mine Days y. (Q-lm-- Capitol Hill Has I Mac VU-.hi- . Mu-sou- liei-sus- c lline-Hto- O tary-treasur- 1 At Basin Making Mines Are Merged dent and manager; A. W. 8owe. vice president; A. Anderson, T. J. Sima, Jr., and K. A. Goddard. Ths Park Klaora of ten also has a south group claims adjoining the Valeo, the Star of Utah and Copper Queen, i which will ba developed later. Eu-- Leamington, a people visiting th mine last Sunday. Many regard the new etrlke as of considerable Im- -I non-ferro- Utah Bunker Hill ec , -- - of a nsw Chicago Fnsa malic portablatwo drill compras sor has been completed by the Are ruwhead Mstsl Mining company, and progress has been expedited by tha use of power drills to such extend that tha company ex pec la to drlva it main tunnel to Its objective in a few days-Thi-s news was brought back by Robert F. Marvin, mining mam who with Ben Ellerbeck of Balt Inventor and enginear( visited the property on Sunday. The company, said Mr. Marvin, "1 developing a surface ahowlng of promising ora in Ui Gilson mountains about 30 miles south of Eureka and seven mile from Lynndyl, Juab county, An Incline shaft forty feet deep waa sunk on tha ore, which at that depth bedded out, a face about five by eight feet of commercial ora being exposed. Considon the Park Kiaura north grada erable shipping grad ore haa bees said Mr. Goddard, we have saved group,"north-soutIn course of developh fissures exposed ment. The the three or occurs In carbon0n the surface and on cross fissure, iferous limestone near an east-west which we believe is the extension fault which is thought to bo the 0f that productive n the Valeo, sourra of mineralization. Tha By running a tunnel in the la reported to b similar in southeast end of tho property w to character many of tha Tin tie can gain considerable depth on all ore deposits. the fissures of the formation. Un On account of tha nnfavorabls the surface wa have the Weber location of tha upper working quartzlto exposed and an andesite, new equipment was purchased and below which wo expect to get the a lower tunnel started which has Park City formatloa in tho south now been driven 70 feet and i( end of the property. ' Work has been financed and thought to be nearing th down- -; ward extension of tho bedded do- driving of the tunnel will begin posit exposed In th ahaft above, and materials Monday. Supplies i Tor tho reason that no ora da and tools for tho shop bavo been Posits of commercial value have Later, power equip. ever been found in this locality. purchased. be tag- watched' r resident Hoover soon will have a desk weight on his desk In Wash ington, D. C., made from a piece ot gold quarts taken from the Reward Calif., county, mine, In Nevada where h worked when first hcein-liln- g that 'lie engineering eur-- cr him In tho White House. Tho ore was received recently by It. L. Kim mol, manager of the mining department of the Rnrramenta rhamhvr of commerce. It was sent by tha Nsygjg City chamber of Inn-le- t. fi |