Show current comment on utah s mines and prospects snowed in this is virtually the condition in a number of the mining camps in the northern and middle portions of the state to get to the outlying mines of park city big cottonwood american fork alta bingham eureka and the sierra madres Al adres one should be able to travel on snowshoes for the snow is deep deeper than is generally the case at this time of the year in some of these camps the roads are almost completely blocked and ore shipments have been suspended until along in the spring still companies operating in the most inaccessible districts have in a goodly supply of provisions powder and tools and work is going on even if the snow is six feet deep on the level for it is generally warm and comfortable in the mine despite conditions on the outside park city mines park city although in the snow up to its neck is so thoroughly equipped that its leading mines are shipping as usual there is no letup let up in the huge tonnage from its producers and much dividend money may be looked for from them during the present year the little bell the new dividend payer is reported to be looking exceptionally well work is being pushed on the american flag and also in the extensive development of the silver king consolidated at the daly judge about thirty tons a day are being taken from the new strike in the from the 1 1400 foot level and a grea greater ter portion of this is being shipped as it is broken down without sorting on the 1500 a level is being run to get under this new ore shoot which promises to be one of the most important discoveries ever made in the mine in bingham haunts atthe at the ohio copper the second unit of the new mill is now in commission and it is reported that the plant is running in a most satisfactory manner the company is now shipping concentrates to the A S R smelter at garfield and the ore reserves in the mine are being very materially increased the mill should now be treating in the neighborhood of 1000 tons of ore dally daily and it is stated the concentrates carry 24 per cent copper to the ton it is now considered quite probable that the ohio will go into the utah copper merger work is being pushed in the operation and equipment of the utah metal and machinery is rapidly arriving on the ground according to plans outlined operations will be oe on a most economical basis and as nearly automatic as possible manager S H treloar is much pleased with conditions and the headway being made in the endeavor to bring ring the mine to a producing stage the north utah mining company is lucli much pleased with conditions at its prop erty the old butler liberal and is in good shape for steady production during the present year during the year 1909 the management put in splendid equipment and has opened up three new veins the utah apex is also in splendid condition and is operating both mines and mill to advantage and successfully the report recently issued by the company contains much that is of interest to company stockholders the leading companies of the camp united states utah consolidated utah copper boston consolidated and yampa are keeping up their regular rate of production and are reported to be looking well tintic gintic producers the situation in tintic gintic district remains practically unchanged the prominent mines of the camp are maintaining their regular output regardless of the fact that tintic gintic stocks have suffered a severe bear raid on the salt lake stock exchange div dividends also have been well maintained although three of the mining complies companies operating in this camp have decided to fo post their dividends quarterly to reduce the expense of clerical work these companies are the colorado iron blossom and sioux consolidated in doing this these tintic gintic dividend payers are but following the lead of nearly every other big mining company in the west and this action by no ways means that there is to be a reduction in the amount of dividends paid in the future the american star mining company holding valuable ground in close proximity to the victoria and the chief consolidated has decided to resume work in the way of mine development and exploration and will sink a new working shaft which is to be dropped to the 1000 foot level before drifting for the vein this company has performed some work through hagle eagle blue bell workings and while results were encouraging cou raging in the main it was decided that it would be necessary to go to greater reater depths in order to uncover the main ore deposits of the property no further news has been received from the apex but the stock of the company is still popular with local investors still active in beaver A large amount of work is being done in the development of beaver county properties red warrior and moscow still con to increase their visible ore supply and other properties in the district are also showing up new ore reserves in the beaver carbonate it is reported a new shoot of ore has been encountered in the east drift on the foot level this is the third ore body uncovered by this drift and and it promises much with continued development the ore disclosed in this new strike carries average values of 12 per cent lead and 15 ounces silver to the ton the grand dominion copper company operating a group of seven claims in the red warrior section has reason to feel in an exultant mood over the fact that a new strike has been reported in its property the discovery was made in the bottom of a forty foot sunk from the foot level the ore is said to run high in its copper content here and there from alta comes the news that the columbus consolidated in its new ore shoot on the foot level has something I 1 ih h the nature of a bonanza this ore body is twelve feet in width and has been opened up on its strike for forty feet or more the ore is a hard carbonate and carries considerable sulphide the values being up to the usual standard of the general output of the mine the morgan crescent mining company operating near morgan in morgan county is a new aspirant for public puah ic recognition and approval as it is stated that in the mine workings a six foot body of solid carbonate ore has been uncovered carrying average values of 35 to 40 a ton the property is under the management of G T stenhouse A smelting smelling sm elting contract is being made and ore shipments will soon be the order of the day morgan county by the way will bear watching during the present year as some surprises may spring from within its environments viron ments several companies are operating there notably the carbonate hill which is a shipper of note adjoining the carbonate hill is the carbonate gem mysterious negotiations have been going on between these two companies and it is more than likely that something is hatching there even if it is midwinter mid winter the pembroke family of salt lake also has holdings near the carbonate gem and will have 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