Show IX LOWER CALIFORMA Gay Lombard a Salt Laker Operating Operat-ing Valuable Gold Mines Herald readers from time to time have been kept Informed concerning the movements move-ments of Gay Lombard a Salt Laker who is now in the gold mining business in Lower California but the following from the Lower California relative to the properties now being managed by Mr Lombard may on account of the details given prove to be especially interesting to them The California says The Fortuna Mining and Milling company I com-pany will reincorporate under the laws of Mexico The capitalization will be 1000000 and the stock of the company will be held principally in Boston New York Chicago and Salt Lake City Early last fall representatives of the company purchased a group of prospects at the Agua Dulce in the Zaragoza district dis-trict Two of these prospects had been developed to some extent and the Fortuna For-tuna from which the company takes its name was down some seventy or eighty feet and had produced a large quantity of high grade ore the gold having been extracted by means of an arrastra When the present owners took possession of the property work was suspended on the Fortuna and Mr Gay Lombard the com panys general manager began development develop-ment work on the Tesoro another vein on which there had been some surface digging dig-ging The result has been most satis taccory a large vein has been opened to a depth ot over 100 iet carrying fair grade ore and increasing in rIchness with depth A new tenstamp mill is being placed on the property steam hoist pumps and in fact everything to indicate that the company is well satisfied with its investment in-vestment Besides the property mentioned mention-ed above several other prospects in the same vicinity have been acquired by this company and it is understood that the Climax mine adjoining the Fortuna has been bonded for a period of six months to them by Messrs Godbe and Mason and that work will be resumed on the Fortuna in conjunction with the mine recently re-cently bonded The Fortuna company have made Agua Dulce quite a flourishing mining camp and If solid appearances count for anything any-thing it will be a very important camp in a year hence mining Notes and Personals Victor Heikes assayer at the Sunshine mine and mill is a Kmrtsford guest News Price Utah M K Parsons the cattle king was in Price last Saturday looking to the shipping of some 600 head of feed cattle to the east Independent Spnngwlle Utah R T Marshall the erratic bohemian has returned re-turned having spent the past week in the mineral zone of Spanish Fork canyon He returns with valuable specimens of ore from some locations he has made Mr N Packard has been making assays that indicate some rich properties Transcript Tooele Utah Prospecting Is booming on Look Out mountain ore taken from there having gone as high as n3 in gold when assayed At present there are about twenty tents there and about forty yen are prospecting the mountain we are miormea tnat a new district is to be formed there some time next week Advocate Richfield Utah Manager John Menedue of the Breckenridge mine was In the city a few days last week Work is progressing rapidly on the big I tunnel and everything seems to appear in good shape A boom is coming to the I Gold Mountain district this year if present pres-ent Indications count for anything A regular water spout occurred in I American Fork canyon a few days ago and the road was washed qut in several places Repairs are now going on however how-ever and it will not be long before ore shipments will commence Samples from the Wad Dutchman mine on which assay I as-say tests were made that showed values of 47 per cent lead thirty ounces silver and SO cents in gold to the ton Pyramid Mt Pleasant Utah J H J Erekson has received word from A A Cahoon bringing the most favorable report concerning their mining property in San Juan county Mr Erekson will go down in a few days with a civil engineer to decide de-cide upon the best plan for a mill The advent of a railroad into that section would develop one of the greatest goldfields gold-fields Utah has ever known I Frank Harkness has returned from his Merour trip and expects to leave for the west on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week While in Mercur Mr Harkness visIted most of the principal mines of the camp and he says that Camp Floyd is a wonderful mineral district While there he secured bonds on several choice groups of claims and before he returns from the east he will probably have interested capital in the development of these properties prop-erties Superintendent John Rhodin of the Creole mine at Park City who is down for the purpose of purchasing timbers and mining supplies for this property informs in-forms The Herald that this is the making of a great producer and that the mine is looking A 1 Mr Rhodin Is a successful mine manager and has superintended the development of some of the best mines in the state He is now employing fourteen nr n in opening up the Creole and Is confident con-fident that it will make an enviable record re-cord for itself this season The officers and stockholders of the Illinois Mining company are feeling much elated over the recent strike made in their Bingham property The Illinois mine is located in main Bingham canyon near the Old Jordan and a good deal of work has been done on this property with more or less success Recently however sinking was begun In a new place and what was supposed to be the footwall of the vein has turned out to be a body of ore that assays 1860 in gold to the ton at a depth of only three feet Arthur OBrien a leading citizen of Helena Montana is In the city on his way home from a visit east where he has been on business connected with the perfecting of patents of his invention relating re-lating to sanitary plumbing Mr OBrien < > < r I states that Helena is wild with excitement excite-ment over the discovery of a vein of ore running diagonally through the heart of the city which can be traced for five miles The ore body which is fortyfive feet wide goes about a thousand dollars in gold to the carload and now work in its development Is being actively pushed The ledge runs under Mr OBriens house and claims to which he holds title and consequentlyhe is strictly in the swim Advocate Richfield Utah W G Baker W H Clark Morton Jensen and Robert Young officers of and stockholders stockhold-ers in the Sevier Valley canal company have located a reservoir site just below the forks of Pole Creek canyon and Three Creek canyon twelve miles west of Joseph By constructing a fifty foot dam they can easily cover twentyfive acres wth water at a big average depth The company will proceed at once to secure the property by necessary work They have another reservoir on Three Creek above this one and when the new lake is made will be independent of all other companies The southern country while noted for Its rich mineral deposits has produced nothing richer than a deposit of manganese man-ganese recently discovered near Monroe which in fact must be doubly superfine as it runs according to the Richfield Advocate Ad-vocate 90 per cent oxide of manganese and 50 per cent metallic manganese or 40 per cent above pure In speaking of this new find the Advocate says Manganese has been discovered in a large quantity along the foot hills just east of Monroe Drs G B Loring and J E Christie have taken up five seperate claims which carry the dusky mineral in purity and abundance abund-ance The ore In one claim the Lizard will carry 90 per cent oxide of manganese and about 50 per cent metallic manganese It is worth at least 25 a ton Colonel Dodge has endeavored to secure a half interest in the ground and will probably run a branch line of the Rio Grande Western West-ern over to the hill The Carnegie Steel and the Illinois Steel companies have been In correspondence with the owners of the Monroe bonanza and have sent analyses and a schedule of prices that prove beyond doubt that Drs Loring and Christie are not indulging in day dreams The story of southern Utahs boundless resources is not yet half told |