Show I AT E OLD RELIABLE Bingham TE Bulletin Reports Operations I I at Mines and hulls Word comes that a contract ha been let for grading the branch road to connect con-nect the Rio Grande and Oregon Short nec Line railroads with the site for the highland Boy smelter I will he something some-thing over a mile In length and hurried to completon so that material for the I smelter can be hauled over It In regard to the rend to connect the Highland Boy and Boston Consldat < mines wih the vale we have it on high authority that work is likely to begin on the grade early In September The lower route having a 7 per cent grade will be adopted a least expen she I built it Is to be stadar gauge and operated with Shea traction trac-tion ngines A number of grading ll 1 talt w i he let emloying Eev erSi hundred men in order to complete the gral thIng and Ironing this fail The meler if work Is begun at once cannot be completed much before April next but It will b advantageous to comDlete the road as far as the depot de-pot during the fir weather If not to utilize i this inter in hauling sup Ul a etc t Regarding connection between the smelter and terminus to he made this l fall there Is a yet no public Information informa-tion but undoubtedly j the canyon sec r ion Is constructed the connection will follow Somethln definite In regard to the pcrprlse wi be known within j ten Jays L Another promising bodY of mineral has been encountered In the Julia Dean I is an old tvrai hich was lifted about 40 feet hy leaseLs last year and abandoned 2S no good Work was begun be-gun Sunday where they left off and t within three feet ore oegan to fal Tuesday uDards o three tons of clean unassolted ore that averages cean r over 100 ounces silver and is well up in lead were housed and the streak t yesterday looked very promisIng Our reporter saw on the lump a 5ecmen showIng a remarkable jnbinaion On the same surface were to be seen sul phido bromide ind chlorde besides a number o patches of wire silver Some t large assays from Dean are were mae by Billy Clays this week one showing three ounces to the ton By the first of October the Montezuma Monte-zuma wH he ready for its hoisting and pumping machinery with which i Is the Intention to sink the new Incl e several hlltd feet A station In the main tunne Is party cut and the In dine i down about 20 fdet Water is likely to soon interfere with furth hand work Manugr Strickle com Ifte a 25ton shipment yesterday and second grade Is going to the conce trator The Dalton Lark is now employing 37 mea mostly in the 800 and 850 levels lev-els In the north drift of the latter there are two feet of ore at the breast carrying car-rying values of 20 per cent cOPper 22 per cent lead and 3G ounces silver The s condition of the mile throughout Is L excellent and a prosperous ending of y the yaar is locked for The 10tamp mi is turnIng out a carload of concn trats per day The Vet Mountain Gold and Copper Mining company at Its annual meet lug Wednesday elected the following ofcer H E Brown president Geo E Lee vIce president W E Germane secretary and treasurer and these with T L Perke and J B Stephens trustees F Colonel Wall reports that he has lowed down onopertons at the Max I en pending th closIng up of a busieS I r busi-eS transaction but in good time di1 L I 4 I If < r L have the work in fuJI blat again nnd the mine operated by steam A new 12Inch belt elevator for the Dewey mi has been ordered and Is now due to arrive With the exception arve excepton of the elevator now in use which has at no tIme ben satsfactoy the mill is running perfectly TGis Crismon leasing on the Kempton are marketing a 25ton lot of good lead ore The Dewey mill Is this week running oil 200 tons of ore from the Winnamuck I dump j I A 25ton lot of fine lookIng ore went I out yesterday from the Eric 0 I |