Show engineers ginders and a fillmen E P jennings has lately been inspect ing several seve ral properties at bingham utah robert forrester the geologist left last week for an extended trip through europe captain duncan macvichie Alac Vichie has returned from a professional visit to nevada mines ivr C godbe who has been in pioche nevada looking after mining interests has returned to salt lake james W wade J td snow and dale L pitt were in american fork canyon last week on professional business colonel C D moore left the first of the week for the coal fields of eastern utah in the interest of count ward of london karl eilers of the american smelting smelling Sm elting refining company has returned from a trip to montana before returning he visited the smelter at helena G C vivian an experienced from butte montana has been appointed as superintendent of the knight smelter in the tintic gintic district of utah A H and mr shafer mining engineers from idaho springs colorado spent a few days last week examining the mines and mills at newhouse utah A R campbell of the metallurgical staff of the united states smelting smelling Sm elting refining mining company left last week for ohio to meet mrs campbell after visiting in eastern cities they will return to salt lake about november 1 S M levy has returned from the pittsburg properties near alta utah and reports the same as looking fine the work is being centered in the lower tunnel which is being driven to tap the ore bodies developed in the upper workings former superintendent moffat of the newhouse mines and smelters shelters Sm elters corporation has been appointed to fill a similar position with the majestic mining company whose holdings are also in beaver county utah not far distant fro from m the cactus mine D P rolfing Kol fing manager of thre the th e lulu property near frisco utah returned to salt lake last week after spending some time at the mine he stated that the late developments had revealed some most promising indications and that prospects for a big mine were bright frank B cook the prominent salt lake engineer has been making an exhaustive examination of the cactus mine in beaver county utah and his report is a source of much luch gratification to the local interests the mine is in splendid shape for cheap and extensive production and while preparations are being made for a heavier out dut from the mine the mill is being bein overhauled and the daily capacity ine increased ceased irom from to 1000 tons lew humphries the salt lake engineer and who is consulting engineer for the nevada douglas copper company operating at yerington berin Z ton nevada has just completed a thorough examination of that property and his report contains much that is highly satisfactory is to the company after speaking of the remarkable showing of high grade ores exposed in the mine workings he states that the resources of the property have been doubled durin during the developments of the past few weeks W C marshall the mining engineer has re returned turnell from an extended trip to the gold mountain section of utah and while not in a position to give up any inside information he stated a few most interesting facts by numerous tests he found thattie that the Z gold old which occurs mostly in the tellurium ores and which appears to be free is not so being coated with acids by roasting it is found that the quick catches 80 per cent of the values mr marshall said that there seems to have been a most woeful lack of management in the leading properties both as to mines and mills excellent ores have been thrown over the dumps and good values scattered promiscuously through the mills with proper and intelligent handling mr marshall believes the mines of the gold mountain district can be made into great producers F B weeks formerly with the united states geological survey but who wh o is now engaged 0 in mining operations at osceola nevada was in salt lake the first of the week on mining busness business mr weeks believes that a bright future is in store for osceola and that opportunities are presented there which would justify the investment of heavy capital he states that C W gaby is doing some systematic work in his placer operations in dry gulch and that the gold bearing strata has been reached from which he took out a 6 nugget while the gravel pans in a most satisfactory manner by tests made by mr weeks at the whitney hitney Wi mill it was demonstrated that CO 60 per cent of osceola quartz ores was free milling and it is believed that the tailings can be successfully treated by the cyanide process considerable work especially so in the way of annual assessment is now going on in the osceola district |