Show current comment on utah 5 M mines ines and prospects the passing of the comet evidently has had no serious effect upon the mining industry of the state As a matter of fact conditions show decided improvement in almost every camp and district in utah where operations are conducted on a regular scale nothing especially new presents itself for comment in these columns still the outlook grows more and more encouraging cou raging and conditions continue to improve from time to time the statement is made that money is tight when it comes to mining investments but we notice that if a sensational discovery is reported there is always a rush to get in on the ground floor and that money for the purchase of a prospective bonanza comes out with a rush when an exceptionally good thing presents itself also that if an important strike is made in a property whose stock is listed on the local board some very active trad trading ng is engaged in in tintic gintic district tintic gintic will always be a mining camp is the remark recently made by a prominent mining man and the opinion is general that the district has been barely prospected as yet occasionally a feeling of discouragement coura gement is noticeable among the operators of tintic gintic but it is not long before a feeling of optimism again reigns supreme for hardly a day passes but that some important disclosure is recorded in some of the mines of the district take iron blossom for instance there are those ano have been feeling somewhat skeptical regarding this property and yet a recent arrival from eureka states that it is greater and bigger than ever before in fact that it is really two great mines in one and that the stock of the company should never go lower than a dollar a share the decision to deepen the victoria shaft and to operate through this avenue is a notice to the mining world of the high esteem with which this property is held by the company and the victoria should reenter re enter the dividend paying list at no distant day the old mammoth has been making a great record of late and especially so in the production of high grade ore since our last issue the company has shipped seven carloads of gold ore going from 60 to 70 to the ton and it is stated that the ore bodies are opening up in a most gratifying manner below the 2100 foot level the assessment levied on beek beck tunnel con has caused a raid laid on the stock of the company and some speculation is being engaged in as to the ultimate outcome of this enterprise still according to a well known mining man inan p there are two chances left wherein the company may still make good one of these is based on the possibilities connect ed with the great quartz vein exposed in the east drift from the 1100 foot shaft and it is held by some that by sinking still deeper and then crosscutting cross cutting for the vein a great ore ora body will be uncovered the other possibility is embraced in the probable extension of the old humbug vein through beek beck tunnel ground this ledge is now being profitably profi taby worked by uncle sam and is being sought by the utah consolidated soli dated the utah con is reported to be working in very livey lively ground and if it catches the old humbug vein and it proves to be as rich as it is in the uncle sam the beck will be in clover as it embraces feet of the vein within its boundary lines at the lower mammoth conditions are extremely favo favorable rabe on the 2000 the drift to the south is in shipping ore and the on the same level is also being sunk in a fine body of pay mineral activity in bingham in no other camp in the west almost without exception is there to be found such feverish activity as that which characterizes operations at bingham from day to day the gigantic work being done by the ponderous steam shovels shove s the regular traffic of the aerial tramways tram ways the puffing of dozens of locomotives and the continual passing of long ore trains is almost bewildering to the visitor and this is kept up so constantly that were operations to cease entirely for an hour the impression would prevail that the end of time had come so accustomed are the residents of the camp to the continual roar and earsplitting ear splitting sounds the b bg g porphyry producers of bingham seemingly gly grow in extent and magnitude as development work progresses the bah copper for instance has something like one hundred and fifty million tons of available ore in sight and adjoining properties are constantly adding to their tonnage the utah metal is pushing work in its big tunnel i project and the utah consolidated highland boy will soon be making re regular u delivery to the international amter ter in the deeper workings of the utah con also itis it is stated that the showing of fine ore is not only gratifying but also surprising the united states is also looking well as will be seen from a report on company affairs elsewhere in this issue while something is continua continually ly doing at the ohio copper usual conditions at the park at park city the big companies are keeping up their usual rate of production and nothing of a sensational nature has transpired there of late unless the letting of the contract for the snake C creek reek tunnel by the daly judge company might be cata loguen in this manner this tunnel enterprise however is one that is calculated to work great benefit to the m ning interests of the park and in its magnitude will compare very favorably favorat favo raby rab y with the great ontario drain tunnel with the difference between the two that the daly judge project is ii more than likely to open up some wonderful ore bodes bodies before it reaches its objective point the silver king coalie coalition on held its annual meeting a few days ago and reelected re elected its ol 01 om ld board of directors as follows david davd keith president thomas kearns vice president and general manager johns bransford second vice president W S mccornick treasurer james ivers W mont ferry and windsor V rice the company is now ansta ling an electric electr c haulage ays tern tem in its mine and other improvements are being made and yet there has been no reduction in the working force here and there the utah mine of ash F sh springs is reported to be in fine physical condition and has consigned three carloads of very fine ore to the smelters shelters sm elters during the present month the shamrock of marysvale Marys vale it is reported is destined to break into the divi bend pay paying ng column at no distant day as it is stated that this property has six feet of solid shipping ore blocked out in its workings from which a carload is being sent to the market with pleasing regularity from all accounts the shamrock is likely to grow into one of the big things of the state in the same district is the daton da ton a gold proposition which has been long neglected As the company has just levied an assessment however it is quite likely that work may be resumed again in the development of this property word comes from alta that the columbus consolidated is in a body of ore the ore body it is stated is four feet between walls shipments from the new strike are being made arrangements are being perfected so that the burro mine on black mountain near the head of city creek canyon north of salt lake can enjoy better transportation facilities bridges are being thrown across mill creek and shipments via the way of woods cross will soon be the order of the day A telephone line is also being run to the mine whose only fault lies in the fact that it is located too near salt lake city to be fully appreciated |