Show around the st state milford times the white cliff company located on indian creek in the newton district has struck a vein of excellent quartz running about 33 per ton of which they have four feet in the face of the dri drift f t the ledge is twenty four feet wide on the and lies between porphyry and granite they also have about seventy five feet of ore that runs on an average of per ton toil the mine which is owned by J C and E ED mcgarry is working a good force ane everything is progressing nicely v american fork citizen the osborn company mines one of the oldest properties in the district is to see an active development campaign during the next few months dr K X M christensen and other local parties have become interested in the excellent showings and have secured a big block of the treasury stock S osborn is now at the mine with four miners and it is the intention of the company to increase the working force as soon as building accommodations can be had for the men price advocate the concentrates irdill from the lost josephine mine which were brought back to provo last week by A 0 smoot have been assayed showing nin ninety aty four ounces gold and ounces silver and which gives a value of to the ton the concentrates from which the above assay says s were made were taken from about seventy se renty five pans of dirt there is some surprise that there should be 96 much silver v er as that is rather unusual the mineral which the miners believed to be platinum appears to have been silver eureka reporter albert joest formerly with the lower mammoth company has taken jaken charge of the eva mine near mt nebo in a letter to the reporter mr joest states that the eva property has a shaft down to a depth of feet with feet of drifts A car of ore is now being loaded and according to assays essays which have been made recently this ore will carry between 50 and 70 per ton there is a nice body of this ore exposed in the shaft and other shipments will no doubt be made regularly in the future the mine is about four and a half miles from the sta starr rr siding on the salt lake route milford news A shipment of some as good looking ore as a person could wish to see is being made this week from the lydia property just what values this ore carries we are unable to estimate but that it will prove a high grade there is little room for doubt it is believed by those who have seen the ore that the returns from this shipment will be better than is even expected by the management earl alverson who for some time past has been the foreman at the hecla is now in charge of the workings at the lydia and it is the anten tion to faily fully develop the property and place it in the flie class of beaver county pro dubers eureka reporter about one carload carloa 1 per day is now being sent out from the mammoth mine this or ore e is some that the leasers leaders have had piled up for several months and it is generally understood that when the leaters leasers are through sending out their ore that the companas comp anys ore will also be placed upon the market when the management had an opportunity to ship the leasers leaders were the first to benefit by it the company has hag been advancing these men enough money for their immediate needs upon the ore which they had blocked gut out and mr mcintyre gave them the first chance to ship their ore some of this ore which the leasers leaders are sending out is exceptionally tio nally rich and will bring the company a nice sum of money in royalties park record one of the most interesting and important pieces of news of the week is that to the eff effect act that the wabash mine has made a shipment the first in its history amounting to pounds not only is this fact interesting and encouraging at the present time but it presages something big for the future for some time past the wabash has had a little ore as has been stated to the public but that this little iras his h cr at least is expected certainly to develop in into 0 something big is the logical conclusion arrived at when the great improvements and plans for mining on a large scale now in pro progress gres at the mine are considered keeping up the standard of all of its expensive sive work in the past the improvements now going on at the mine are all of a high class of workmanship and very thorough in every particular the compressor and boiler foundations are being put to stay and the plant will when completed be practical efficient nt and convenient |