Show 1 I STRONG CROWD i IN ALTA ALIA CAMP Men of Wide Reputation in inThe Mining World Secure Valuable Valuable Valuable able Properties I The camp of or Alta has secured a new and powerful operating crowd of or miners I and business men of or wide reputation through the organization of or the Utah I Mines Unes Coalition a corporation that filed med r its articles with the secretary secreta of or state 1 Monday and mention of or which was brief brier briefly brierl J ly IT l made yesterday morning All 11 of or the theold theold c old Black BIck Bess Bees holdings and other valuable territory all patented has baa been bean taken over by b the new corporation 4 following months of ot negotiation and ex cx exhaustive examinations of or the ground In Involved Involved as well as the camps general conditions The property is located at the i head of or Big and Little Cottonwood can canyons 4 1 and is surrounded n by b properties that I have produced in the days das gone p by Coursing through the property for 1 feet teet are four tour large fissures and a aa ar great r a at t contact lode One of ot these veins I hijji Ij i already been developed in the new 4 territory to a depth of or feet teet and workings sent out from this 1 shaft arc are all in good ore today J 1 In order to facilitate mining operations v I nod and to develop at the same time the mine i iI I at considerable depth the management has determined to drive a tunnel on the most northerly norther vein eln and from this level crosscut the other four and connect with the present workings Tills This tunnel will JOld a n depth of or 1000 feet Ceet below the col collar collar lar Inc of the tho present shaft and will give I backs on each of or the five veins vary varying Ins ing from Crom 1000 to 1600 feet Ceet above the tun tunnel nel n ii l level With this In view the prop property propertY z erty will ill be immediately equipped with the necessary machinery machine to thoroughly de develop d It The tho portal of ot the tunnel Is situated about 75 7 feet teet above the level of Lake ii Solitude from which excellent atlon Is afforded by wagon road In Inal addition al plans s have been perfected by another corporation for tor or a custom aerial i tramway down Little Cottonwood can canyon cant canyon t yon connecting with a spur of the Denver Rio Grande railway which will allow a second cheap and effective outlet for the ores direct to the smelters In the valley Captain Duncan MacVichie president of the company was for tor several years ears gen Jen J oral cral era manager of the Bingham dater Mining company and is now con eon consulting suIting engineer for Cor the Ohio Copper com corn company pay pany of Bingham two of f the largest t 1 properties of or the camp J B Risque the vice vleo president is in II the general manager of i the Utah Consolidated Mining company under sunder whose management that company is Ig producing copper at a cost so low that it ii is taxing the best brains of the coun cOlln country country try to equal R B H Strickland secre secretary tary ta and manager is a mining engineer of ot experience who has during the past pastI I several cars jears lx been en identified with some of the tho largest mining corporations of the I L II It Farnsworth treasurer is cashier of or Walker Bros Bra bank bant one of the i Oldest st financial institutions in Utah The I fifth director is James A Pollock head of or the firm of James Jamas A Pollock Co Coone Coone Coone one of the most prominent banking and brokerage e houses in the west |