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Show WKSTKRN MINING GAZKTTKKR. THK UTAH PROPERTY. THE ROSS MINE, UINTAH DISTRICT, UTAH. This Company was recently rfani!l under the laws nf Utah, with a capital stock nf 100,000 shares at tie par value nf $10.). Of this amount 20,000 shares were set aside as a working capital, which will not he sold lur less than No per share. The uiliccrs of the The working capital is Company are E. 1. Ferry, President and Manager; Francis The lirsl ; II.. I. Ilallister, Secretary. Smith, and and last named are of Park Citv, and the Treasurer are of Michigan. Tin incline was stink MO feet on level tin vein is the hanging wall of the vein. On the feet wide, the fool wall being quartzite and the hanging wall Tin character of tin ore and vein matter very porphyry. The vein and vein matmuch resembles that of the Ontario, level is I I feet wide and selected speciter on the mens run from 0 to HO ounces silver and lo per ci.nt. lead. Very little oulias been taken out as the shaft was sunk for prospecting juirposes alone. New hoisting works are in course of erection and a vertical shaft will he started lor working purposes, and it is believed the vein will InThis property is situated one and a half cut at 400 feet. west of tin Ontario and ad- miles south and twenty degrees r joins the White Pine on the west. The I 'tali is one of the oldest claims in Uintah District. his i imped a boss" mine as the developments attest. Hie shaf. is down 1 00 feet; and at d() feet the first or level wa-- I'nrt d and is now in 230 feet, the veinrunuing from iourleen inches to three and a half feet; the ore being extrac- - non-asscssihl- Vice-Preside- 1 50-fo- i tel assay: rtv ounces silver and thirty per cent. lead. The level from ;ii bottom of the shaft is in ISO feet, showing a m diree and a half feet wide; quartzite, regular and pophyry hanging wall. From six to seven tons of ore is extracted daily. Captain It. C. Thomas, the foreman, commenced sinking the shaft another hundred feet on Monday. There are 14 men at work. c. nt Vice-Preside- 50-fo- f foot-wa- ll . nt ol 2-- 150-fo- ot -- THE WHITE PINE MINK ot 'Phis claim is situated in Uintah District, Utah. The main shaft is down 400 feet. The vein was struck at 3d feet anil varies in with from Id to 40 feet. The 100-folevel is in 125 is feet on tin vein, which is 12 to Id feed wide. The foot-waquartzite and the hanging wall pophyry. The vein averages from Ido to lid ounces in silver and 20 per cent. lead. The 200-levis in 13d feet; the vein is 30 feet wide and selected samples go as high as 200 ounces in silver. The ore now being extracted comes from the stupes between the first and On the the 300- second levels. The ore lavs on the foot-wal- l. level the drift on the vein has been run 1 2d feet west and 100 l. feet east. A station is being put' in on the The great fault in this property is the hoisting works, the Dimult power when it really should be a 40- horsepower. The White Pine is Northwest of the ( hitario and ,Iist sliit about one and a half miles, and carries the same f ore as the latter. ot ll to-morr- -- el - ft 400-leve- This company was organized under the laws of Michigan Ltali. tapit.il stink, 100,000 j but is npciatiug at Iaik( shares at the par alue ot n 2,i. llieolliceis an. I le.sident, and H. J. Hollister; ice I resident, Scnatoi Ien , ecii-la.lames Harnett; General Manager, F. P. Ferry. The smelter was very recently completed and started up on the 13th on ore from the Ross, Woodsiih, (Yeolo and Glen- n coe mines. The engine- is power, and the stack works nicely. The building is dl100 fed, of sufficient size to piit in two more stacks if needed. ( )f the lluxing ores iron is brought from Provo river and lime is obtained near at hand. The smelter turns out about 3d bars of base bullion per day, and 400 bars was shipped to McCornick & Go., of Salt Lake, up to Monday last. The total cost of ihe smelter when in running order, is 25,000. This new enterprise is of incalculable value to the prospectors and mine owm rs of the district, and will enable many who heretofore were unable to develop tlieir properties for the want of means to go to work and take out ever so small a quantity of ore and sell it almost on the dump, and thus obtain money to push explorations further. Let us have a general revival of mining interests in Park Gitv, for is is one of the most extensive mineral belts ever found in the West. it, i - dO-hor- a TOUGH-NU- char-Treasun- T. This claim is situated in Uintah District, Utah, a quarter of OTHER CLVIMS. The incline is down on the vein 30 feet, the hitter being four feet wide and only the hanging wall The assays run from 15 to 50 per ton, though uncovered. 100 silver and 10 gold has been obtained from se as hhdi P as There is four tons of 50 nre on the dump. leeted samples. This is a new prospect struck a lew weeks since, and oiied by L. Simon & Co. The Miner's Delight is a parallel location and adjoins the Tough-Nu- lie Rosebud and Mountain Green are parallel with the White Pine. Tic former has a live foot vein and the hitter four and a ball ! t . The ore is low grade, though the vein in the fI of deMountain Green is widening, and has every veloping a handsome body of on1. These claims are in Lintah District and owned by Smith Fhrenger. Application has been made for patents to them. The formation is granite; the walls being mixed with quartz and iron. e appi-arsnc- -- - QUEEN OF TIIE SIERRAS. d This claim is owned bv J. A. Curran and others an is . leet in IJlue Ledge District, Ltah. The shall is dow The assays run irom on the rein, which is four leet wide. It is the intention to build a shaft house at to 40 per ton. once and a force of men will start to work on tin mine very soon. The owners have been offered 4 per loot lor their claim. situ-site- i a mile west of Park Cilv. WASATCH NO. 2. ft t. -r, 30-to- se I TI1E lS-hor- se 'Phis claim is in Uintah District, Utah, east f the Wasatch and on tin same vein. The incline is down 100 feet on the d vein, ih latter being low grade, but showing walls. The vein is 3.1 feet wide, but when first struck was oul v a seam. The formation is quartzite. Wood and water well-define- convenient. |