Show A around the state american fork citizen the camp bird operators have started a new tunnel at least 1000 feet below the old workings the object being to get the ore at a lower level and to be able to handle it at small expense after they do reach it grand valley times walter B stewart came down from his camp on grand river sunday mr stewart has forsaken the gentle art of photographing for the more lucrative calling of digging gold he is placer mining on the river and is wei aeu 1 pleased with the results so far obtained beaver press A strike of considerable importance has been made at the king of the hills property in the west mountains ore was broken into a few days ago of a very high grade samples running as high as 1800 ounces silver to the ton it is reported that everything about the camp has an air of coming prosperity price advocate the independent coal and coke company operating a railroad from spring glen to kenilworth is building a small depot at the junction of its track with the denver rio grande just south of helper it is likely that some of the trains of the latter will stop there for passengers bingham bulletin A new rich strike has been made near the so called dana fis sue in the bingham property of the utah apex company according to advices advises sent to boston headquarters of the company As says of ore from the new strike showed values of 34 0 ounces in silver 25 per cent lead and 85 per cent copper it is regarded as one of the most important strikes ever made in the property eureka reporter local people have secured a lease upon the property of the provo mining company and will no doubt commence work within the next few days the property adjoins the east tintic gintic dev bev mine andaas and was worked quite extensively during the past year by eureka leasing company ore was encountered by the leasing company but not in sufficient quantities to make the lease a profitable one milford news another contract has been awarded by the gold crown mining company for sinking the shaft another feet and work on this contract will be commenced at once it is the intention to continue operations at this property froni from now on and develop it to considerable extend the gold crown is one of the best propositions in the district and there is no doubt that it will soon develop into a mine of no small importance price advocate general manager F A sweet of the consolidated fuel company was at hiawatha last sunday with a party of gentlemen interested in the company he was also accompanied by harry the salt lake city photographer who took some twenty five views in and about the mines that will be put out in souvenir book form manager sweet is is well satisfied with the output at hiawatha as well as general conditions at the mines milford news lucian merrit J C mcfadden B J cook of duluth john warn of eveleth and G W taylor of minneapolis all of whom are interested in the red warrior mine arrived in milford tuesday morning and went to the mine where they spent a couple of days looking over the property al the gentlemen were well pleased with conditions of the property and returned home feeling satisfied that the red warrior was one of the best mining propositions in the country price advocate J E pettit petti t state coal inspector returned tuesday to salt lake city from sunnyside Sunny side and clear creek where he inspected the mines he says all are in first class condition as regards ventilation and safety the law being more than complied with especially in the sunny side district says pettit are conditions good the accident which occurred some years ago has opened the eyes of the coal mine operators and they have made regulations and inseal ed safety appliances far beyond what is required by law eureka reporter A body of nice ore has hag just been opened upon the level of the colorado mine this strike is about five feet below the level from which the colorado has been shipping for the past few years and the ore has been encountered about feet from the line dividing this mine the sioux consolidated in the latter mine this ore body has been found to extend to a depth of feeland feet fee tand and everything indicates that the colorado will have a big ore body upon the level as a drift has already been pushed through this ore for a distance of fifteen feet provo herald news received from the mineral flat extension property in american fork mining district by secretary F E brown is very pleasant to the stockholders the report says that the ore vein in which the men are working is opening up in size and at the present time the ore is eight feet in width the grade seems to get better as they get down in it and shows more gold and silver the last assay shows nearly 50 per cent copper already an abundance of pay stuff has been taken out and arrangements will be made to ship as soon as the extent of the ore is learned prospects are promising for a good mine bingham bulletin A bedded vein which subsequent work has proven to be six feet thick was penetrated last saturday by the main cross cut tunnel which is being driven to cut the extensive system of veins in the estate of the bingham copper company while no immediate payable values have been disclosed according to the statement made by manager W D bohm the vein material carries sufficient lead to indicate that there is every probability of its making commercial ore in the vicinity of the nearest fissure the main heading is progressing rapidly and there is decided improvement in the appearance of the country as the work advances grand valley times that the developments of the past few days of the wil son mesa mean more to that section in relation to its future as a mining district than many months of previous work is the opinion of emil boren of mesa who was in moab wednesday he bases this conclusion on the discovery of rich placer gravel running completely under the solid formation this proves to mr boren that the go d is native there and has not been washed in from the mountain or elsewhere the supply he figures is practically inexhaustible webb boren are now placer mining with clifford robertson and C C inman and have quite an elaborate machine for the work they are at present handling dirt that runs a trifle over a dollar per yard american fork citizen ben pierson J J and john jones who have a lease on a part of the old miller mil er ground are expecting to reach their objective point any day they are working to connect with a body of high grade carbonate ore known by pierson to have existed tw twenty enty years ago at that time pierson was a youngster working in the mine and the ore was leading off the ground then owned by the company in order to secure this ground at a reasonable figure the workings was caved in to hide the ore soon after this the management changed hands and a new set of men were doing the mining the secret of this rich deposit has been locked in breast all these years and he has hag repeatedly tried cried to secure a lease and was only successful this year they are now getting into familiar ground and if he is not mistaken will soon be shipping pay dirt richfield reaper tom gillan made a trip to marysvale Marys vale this week and he brings back the joyous tidings of a rich strike in the cascade property A huge body of good ore has been encountered and the management is jubilant mr young of the log cabin company has obtained a bond and lease on the bul y boy and webster property and a force of men are at work cleaning out the old tunnel which is in a distance of 2300 feet work will be resumed on the tunnel and it will be driven ahead giving greater depth the bully boy is one of the properties which first brought marysvale Marys vale into the lime light and it has produced more go d than all the other marysvale Marys vale properties combined if reports are to be depended upon another shipment of ore is being made already at the shamrock this mine has been making a record the past few months and excellent ore has been shipped this summer park record fred L schrott the lucky dutchman so called because of his success in mining ventures both in utah and nevada was in park city thursday morning en route to the prince of whales property in big cottonwood Cotto wood in which he is heavily interested being manager of the company mr schrott spent a number of 0 years in nevada in the late boom in that state and though he made a fortune and controlled numerous valuable prope properties arties down there he says that he never in all of his experience saw a district of so much promise as is the cottonwood country at the present time mr schott has decided to stake his all on the prince and the east prince adjoining and now has a force of men employed there under the foremanship of tom dell bell formerly of this city mr schrott says that the prince is a wonder and that the cottonwood district genera ly is bound to come to the front within the next year |