Show r GOLD ON SNAKE CEEEK The Park Patriots Grist of Local Mining News The work of cutting the station in the 1300foot level of the DalyWest was begun Monday under the supervision super-vision of John McSorley foreman of I that great bonanza I There is nothing or practically nothing noth-ing in the rumor that a large gold rok vein was struck in the Cumberland I Superintendent Lawrence says that the mine looks about the same that it has for the past four months Two shifts are working on the Deer Valley Consolidated The prospects grow better as work progresses An immense amount of work has been done on this property and the owners t believe that their reward is not very far distant I I is expected that work will be resumed re-sumed in the Lucky Bill the coming 1 week as the road from the Dab mine i is almost passable for coal transporta j j ton or will be in a few davs At a i meeting of the management held in I Park City Tuesday an assessment of I 1M cents was levied The writer heardof more development I develop-ment talk in the past week than he ha heard before in six months There is also considerable inquiry for mining i property A representative of an eastern I east-ern syndicate who desires to remain incog went out into Wasatch county this week to examine several mining claims He will visit the points on the Beaver creek ere he returns Monday was pay day at both the Silver King and Anchor mines No matter what other business is to be i looked after Dave Keith and Tom Kearns never permit the 10th of each month to pass by without handing out their checks to the men for their labor for the past 30 days Thats the I proper caper These men have earned their money its theirs and they ought to have it j A force of men are at work this week I on the Empire canyon road between J the Daly mine and the Massachusetts shoveling away the ice and snow As soon as the road is in condition for traffic ore hauling will be resumed both from the Daly and DalyWest I is estimated that the latter mine has I stored in its mines and dump not less than 150000 worth of firstclass ore which runs high in silver andlead What appears to be a fine mineral paint proposition was discovered recently cently by some Kamas gentlemen I is on the south fork of the Provo river southeast of Park City about 29 miles southest Ciy One of the discoverers brought some of the stuff home with him pounded it to a fine powder dissolved it with oil and used it a commercial paint and he assured the writer that it could not be distinguished save by its peculiar bril I Halcy from the manufactured paint Robert Bone of the Marsac mill force I 1 who has been out in the Blue Ledge district for some time doing development I develop-ment work in the Bone group of seven I promising claims was in the city Monday Mon-day The Bone group of claims is adjacent ad-jacent to the goup Mr Bone is well I pleased with the prospects The indica i tions he says are such as would encourage en-courage any mining man of experience He is not bothering himself with assays I just now as he thinks he knows pay rock when he reaches i Mr Bone re roc returned to his camp Tuesday Frank North Joe Bagley and John E I Edwards located several minln claims last winter in the Snake Creek mining I district They are sinking a shaft on distrct i one of the claims Mr North was in the city Monday t procure location certificates and brought with him gold I rock which he had had assayed and I which he assuered the writer yielded 93 in gold and a small per cent in copper cop-per Quite naturally he looks > orward I to the dayand that not far distant when the newspapers will be publishing I him as the multimillionaire of Charleston Charles-ton tonThe Anchor concentrator is being brushed up this week preparatory to I the resumption of work probably about the 1st of June An eighthorse power Corliss engine used during the construction I con-struction of the Ontario tunnel has been purchased from the Ontario com ben I pany John Thompson chief engineer of the Anchor is over at Camp Florence 1 this week where this engine is to get I it ready for shipment to the Anchor This will give the Anchor concentrator I wi about 30horse power more than the engine it has been using and it is thought its efficiency will be increased in proportion Just what other improvements im-provements proporton wl be made is not definitely defin-itely settled |