| Show I I I i J I i i I II i I I I I I I i r I AMERICAN FORK MINES News From Properties That Are Bringing Old Camp to the Front American Fork Oct 19 Leonard G Hardy Hard a mining engineer of Salt Lake has been the Merrill lease prop property property erty ert in the Mary Mar Ellen EUen gulch He Is fa Ia favorably Impressed with the thc compans excellent holdings in that vicinity This company compan has secured the services of or Ned Wild lId as manager and he will Immediate Immediately ly h take hold and push development work The Tile miners are following a vein of fine looking ore and are making good progress On reaching the porphyry dike about feet ff et ahead It ts L expected they the will open up ore In ship shipping shipping ping qualities Encouraging reports come from the Sil Sit Silver Silver ver Flat property In Deer Creek canyon canon The miners have encountered a vein of or rusty rust porphyry which carries good lead values alues Those who have examined the rock think that there is a likelihood of breaking into the ore bodies at any ano shot The Osborn Mining company held its regular annual meeting Thursday night and elected a new board of directors S Osborn was elected president and K M 1 Christensen secretary and treasurer with James Julian William Imam Craig Cral and James Guyette Guette as directors A block of the treasury treasur stock has been sold and exten extensive extensive sive developments are in progress This company compan owns some very er promising ground in the mouth of or Dry Dr Creek can canyon canT canyon yon Tyng T g brothers are doing some extensive development work on their Texan group roup of claims on the Miller hill hIlI They The are running a tunnel from the lower low side to tap the extensive ore bodies which are thought thou ht to be there This tunnel will be beabout beabout beabout about SOO feet long and when completed will be one of or the best tunnels In the dis district district The Texan group is ib b by good producers having mine I Ion on the west est the Dutchman on the south I and the Mountain Dell and amI Blue Rock on i ithe ithe the east It seems Impossible rot t the 1 I j Texan to do development work without opening up some of at the tIme ore bodies which are known to exist In this region They The Theare are at present working two shifts shirts on the property and work is going ahead very ver satisfactory The storms of ot the past week have hae In considerably with the tIme improve improvements improvements ments and building of the power plant and compressor at the Mineral Flat prop property erty crt Most of the machinery has been taken up tip and the pipe for the pipeline Is now being hauled up There was two carloads of or this pipe unloaded here the theother theother theother other day da for this purpose The Mineral Flat property is considered by b all who have hue seen it to be one of the tIme best In the tIme canyon and It gives givers every Indication of becoming a dividend pa r r before another year ear passes As a r min miner r remarked the theother theother theother other day It Is surely ond the pros prospect prospect f et age and is now a mine mint and there is no question but what It will be one of the big mines mine of or tIme the state The Wasatch Range mine mimic better known as all the old Ontario is reported to have opened open d up a small vein fn eln of steel galena gathna gal na ore orf In the time tunnel which Is Ls being 1 run run to drain the time water from the upper work werk workings workIngs ings Ing |
